CI Score Solutions

As the ethanol industry waits for significant carbon intensity-reducing measures to come to fruition, such as carbon capture and storage (CCS)—already happening for some—and regenerative farming practices, multiple strategies exist today that, when deployed together, can substantially decrease CI scores.

While CCS is often considered the most powerful and immediate way to lower CI—with reductions as high as 30 points in some cases—energy efficiency retrofits combined with process heat and power decarbonization can achieve meaningful results as well.

There are numerous ways to lower your CI today—outside of CCS—with ancillary operational and financial benefits. Here are just some of the compelling solutions to consider.    

Get Serious About Energy Storage  
Through the addition of a simple box with brick, ceramic insulation and iron, California-based Rondo Energy can help ethanol plants store energy onsite, for a CI-point reduction of between 22 and 27, depending on the geographical location and existing electricity profile of an ethanol plant.

Read more here via Ethanol Producer Magazine.