Prior to the kickoff of the American Coalition for Ethanol Conference last week, CapCO2 Solutions held an open house at the AgriEnergy Innovations ethanol facility in Luverne, Minnesota to showcase a new collaboration utilizing CO2 waste to produce green methanol.
“Methanol has been around for 100 years and it’s almost all made nowadays with fossil fuel, so it’s not a net zero product. But if you can make it with CO2 from ethanol plants, it is a net zero product,” said Dr. Jeff Bonar, CapCO2 CEO, during an interview at The ACE. “The shipping industry has decided that’s their next generation fuel and it’s a key part of SAF. So lots of people want green methanol and there’s a lot of scrambling to figure out how to do that in quantity. And ethanol plants are the perfect place to do it.”
Bonar had a lot of interest in the potential during the ACE Conference, which had over 200 attendees at the meeting last week in Sioux Falls. “We have our first plan in Laverne, we have a lot of other people who want to be number two. So our goal is to have number one working and have another big group kicking the tires,” said Bonar.
2025 ACE - Cap CO2 interview (4:36)