The U.S. EPA on Sept. 21 launched up to date small refinery exemption (SRE) knowledge, reporting that one new SRE petition has been filed beneath the Renewable Gas Commonplace over the previous month. Three SRE petitions at the moment are pending.
The company earlier this yr started to publish firm names and facility areas for SREs filed with the company on or after July 1, 2022. That knowledge reveals the newly filed petition was filed by Placid Refining Co. for its facility in Port Allen, Louisiana, in search of a waiver of its mixing obligations for RFS compliance yr 2022. There are additionally two SRE petitions that stay pending for compliance yr 2018. These SRE petitions have been filed previous to July 1, 2022. As such, the EPA’s SRE knowledge dashboard doesn’t comprise info on the small refineries that filed these petitions.
As well as, the EPA has printed knowledge on small refineries which have opted into the company’s various renewable identification quantity (RIN) retirement schedule for the 2020 compliance yr. In accordance with the EPA’s on-line knowledge dashboard, 17 small refineries are collaborating within the various RIN retirement schedule, with the whole renewable quantity obligation (RVO) for these refineries at 870 million RINs, complete RINs retired at 460 million, and the whole excellent RVO at 410 million RINs.
Extra knowledge is offered on the EPAÂ web site.Â
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