In Iowa, two Iowa Renewable Fuels Association members sent the first donated shipment of Iowa ethanol and glycerin to the state of Iowa to be used by Iowa Prison Industries for the production of hand sanitizer during the national shortage. As reported in The Digest last week, several ethanol producers around the country are doing […]
In Iowa, Absolute Energy was forced to cut ethanol production by 20% earlier this year because it didn’t have storage capacity following poor rail service from BNSF and Canadian Pacific. Rail shipping this winter had been significantly impacted by heavy snow storms that later led to back ups throughout the system.
The migration from first-gen to next-gen biofuels is becoming less ‘Invisible’ — and the new landscape is not, by anyone’s estimation, an ‘Ordinary World’. If Aemetis’ latest earnings hadn’t rocked your world quite enough, here are 10 hot strategies being pursued right now to morph the old into new. If you remained glued to the television […]
REduce, REuse, REcycle. REnewable energy sometimes means REthinking, REfocusing. Great ideas abound for new feedstocks, and novel infrastructure. We admire so many of them. Jatropha, carinata, switchgrass, sweet sorghum, blender pumps, systems-at-sea. And so much more. But what about technologies that bolt-on a different processing unit, but keeps everything else the same. Or uses an […]
A new E85 pricing scheme from Absolute Energy offers $0.11 savings per gallon vs. unleaded, up to $0.43 savings vs. premium. And, yes, that’s adjusted for energy density. Will E85 rise again as spring gasoline prices soar? “April is the cruellest month”, wrote T.S. Eliot to kick off The Waste Land, and he must have […]
