Regional Markets Extra: Brazil Taking a Lead in CO2 From Fermentation

Since the global recession, many world markets with significant ethanol resources, such as the Americas, have consolidated and numerous dormant plants have been sold – in some cases for pennies on the dollar. Some of these plants have then been converted, enlarged, or started up.

Since new and future corn-based ethanol plants are probably few and far between in the US, many of the future and longer term developments of new ethanol projects will be non-corn-based or ‘cellulosic’…