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September 17, 2024 – Gevo, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEVO) announced on September 12, 2024 that it has entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Red Trail Energy, LLC (“Red Trail”) for $210 million, [...]

February 12, 2024 | By Bruce Comer, Frank Kim, Zak Putlak, and John Panvica The U.S. biofuels sector in 2023 registered the flourishing of new technologies and billions in new investments – and [...]

February 8, 2024 – J.B. Pearl Sales & Service, Inc. (“J.B. Pearl” or the “Company”), a St. Marys, Kansas-based ag retailer, recently closed on its sale to an undisclosed buyer. Ocean Park [...]

October 4, 2023 – Green Plains Inc. (“Green Plains”) recently closed on the sale of its 55 million gallon ethanol plant located in Atkinson, Nebraska. The purchaser and financial terms were not [...]

July 2023 | By Bruce Comer and John Campbell The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has set final Biomass-Based Diesel (BBD) volume mandates for 2023-2025, but what does it mean for the [...]

June 9, 2023 | By John Campbell The U.S. biofuels industry got a powerful shot in the arm Aug. 16, 2022, when the Inflation Reduction Act was signed by President Joe Biden. A pared-down version [...]

February 22, 2023 | By Bruce Comer, Frank Kim, and Zak Putlak The market for buying and selling biofuels plants followed a historic 2021 with a transformational year in 2022, driven by one [...]

November 1, 2022 – CIE recently announced that it acquired the assets of Elkhorn Valley Ethanol (“EVE”) from Louis Dreyfus Company, a global agricultural commodities firm. Financial terms of the [...]

June 23, 2022 | By John Campbell While electric vehicles (EVs) make headlines, the renewable fuels industry offers a more immediate and impactful disruption to the energy industry, and more [...]

February 28, 2022 | By Bruce Comer, Frank Kim, and Zak Putlak As ethanol producers pursued mergers and acquisitions, and renewable diesel firms built and expanded plants, the biofuels industry [...]