As we have frequently discussed, India’s Modi government has continued to support cane ethanol manufacturing and fuel use as a tool to increase energy independence, protect currency reserves, and even putatively contribute to environmental targets. As a result of an ethanol blending mandate and [...]
U.S. capacity for renewable diesel production rose to 2.134 billion gallons during Aug-Oct 2022, up 45 percent from capacity at the beginning of the year. This has affected the demand for soybean oil, the primary feedstock for renewable diesel. In the 2022/23 marketing period, [...]
Months earlier, fuel prices skyrocketed due to a somewhat artificial scarcity in supply caused by the Russia-Ukraine war. In response to that, EPA provided relief by allowing the ethanol component in gasoline to be more than the usual 10 percent, and we saw E15 [...]
As the conversation of sustainability goes global, the use of renewable and sustainable materials for household necessities and daily operations has graduated from being a nice-to-have to a need-to-have. Energy sectors across the world especially reflect this, with many countries looking at sustainable fuel [...]
Futures activity Jan-23 soybean meal futures closed at $424.10 per short ton on Friday, up $12.40 for the week. Jan-23 soybean oil futures fell precipitously last week, starting at $0.7312 per pound Monday and closing Friday at $0.6522 per pound, down 11 percent. S&D [...]
Biomass-based diesel manufacturers used 4.95 billion pounds of soybean oil during the first six months of 2022, a sizeable increase over H1 2021 and up 34 percent from Jan-Jun 2019, when the industry saw significant expansion in renewable diesel production. Production of renewable diesel [...]
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Ethanol production consumes more than a third of U.S. corn production, while biodiesel and renewable diesel consume 40 percent of domestic soybean oil production—a share that’s only expected to increase as demand for renewable diesel expands. Having a handle on the biofuel markets deepens [...]
