The U.S. EPA on Oct. 19 launched up to date small refinery exemption (SRE) knowledge, reporting that no new SRE petitions have been filed below the Renewable Gas Commonplace in the course of the previous month. Three SRE petitions stay pending, together with two for compliance 12 months 2018 and one for compliance 12 months 2022.
The EPA earlier this 12 months started to publish firm names and facility places for SREs filed with the company on or after July 1, 2022. That knowledge exhibits that the pending SRE petition for 2022 was filed by Placid Refining Co., which is in search of a waiver of its RFS compliance 12 months 2022 mixing obligations for its facility in Port Allen, Louisiana.
The 2 SRE petitions at the moment pending for RFS compliance 12 months 2018 had been filed previous to July 1, 2022. As such, the EPA’s SRE knowledge dashboard doesn’t include info on the small refineries that filed these petitions.
The EPA’s on-line SRE knowledge dashboard additionally consists of knowledge on small refineries which have opted into the company’s various renewable identification quantity (RIN) retirement schedule for the 2020 compliance 12 months. In line with the EPA’s on-line knowledge dashboard, 17 small refineries are collaborating within the various RIN retirement schedule, with the full renewable quantity obligation (RVO) for these refineries at 870 million RINs. A complete of 490 million RINs have now been retired below the choice retirement schedule, up from 460 million that had been retired as of final month. The entire excellent RVO is now at 380 million RINs, down from 410 million as of September.
Extra knowledge is obtainable on the EPA web site.
