USDA Deputy Secretary of Agriculture Stephen Vaden filled in for his boss at the 2025 Farm Progress Show Tuesday, chatting on the mainstage with Mike Pearson of This Week in AgriBusiness and answering question from farm reporters on site, expressing the administration’s strong support for domestic biofuels. “I think it’s fair to say that the second Trump administration has been …
Ethanol Plant CO2 Can Produce Green Methanol
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 …
ZimmComm Recognized for Ethanol Reporting
ZimmComm was honored to receive the media award from the American Coalition for Ethanol (ACE) last week at The ACE conference for our “decades of dedicated reporting on the people, policies, and progress shaping the U.S. ethanol industry.” This means a lot to us because the ethanol industry was instrumental in our company’s success and we have been able to …
Fluid Quip Technologies Celebrates CVEC Installation
As the American Coalition for Ethanol annual conference (The ACE) kicked off last week in Sioux Falls, Fluid Quip Technologies (FQT) announced the successful installation and startup of its DCO Technology™ system at Chippewa Valley Ethanol Co. (CVEC) in Benson, Minnesota. “We’re happy to announce that after two months into full scale running, they’re averaging over 35% uplift on their …
Biofuels Groups React to EPA SRE Actions
The biofuels industry generally seems pleased with the EPA decision today on a backlog of Small Refinery Exemption (SRE) petitions, granting full exemptions to 63 petitions, granting partial exemptions to 77 petitions, denying 28 petitions, and determining 7 petitions to be ineligible. Renewable Fuels Association (RFA) President and CEO Geoff Cooper says the approach seems reasonsable, but they will be …
ACE CEO Optimistic About E15, SRE Ruling
There is a lot of optimism in the ethanol industry right now that 2025 is the year the ethanol industry will finally win the ability to sell 15 percent ethanol blended fuel nationwide all year long. American Coalition for Ethanol CEO Brian Jennings said at the organization’s annual meeting this week that the odds seem to favor passage of legislation …
Rep. Johnson Speaks to ACE Members
Rep. Dusty Johnson (R-SD) welcomed members of the American Coalition for Ethanol to his home state of South Dakota Thursday as he addressed some of the industry’s current concerns. The biggest concern right now is the continued struggle to get nationwide E15 approval. “This is one of the more infuriating issues…I don’t understand why we don’t have E15 yet…Why are …
ACE Kicks Off Conference With Full House
The 38th American Coalition for Ethanol annual conference officially kicked off Thursday morning in Sioux Falls, South Dakota with the biggest crowd in a decade, full of enthusiasm for ethanol’s Homefield Advantage. On Wednesday, the ACE board of directors met to elect and re-elect members during the organization’s annual business meeting. New to the board is Zac Griess, Director of …
Happy 20th Anniversary to the RFS
It took a Texas oil man to finally unleash the power of renewable fuels. In the aftermath of 9/11, energy independence became a driving force for President George W. Bush, and he saw the potential for our nation’s productive farmers to help attain that goal. The Energy Policy Act of 2005 was signed on August 8 of that year at …
Ethanol Report on the RFS at Twenty
The Energy Policy Act of 2005 was signed by President George W. Bush on August 8 of that year at Sandia National Laboratory in Albuquerque, New Mexico – symbolizing a new approach to energy economics and security, diversifying our transportation fuel supply by incentivizing ethanol and biodiesel by initiating the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). This month marks the 20th anniversary …