As expected, the Biden administration wasted no time in driving clean energy provisions into its sweeping infrastructure spending bill, amplifying the urgency for ethanol producers to examine their production via the lens of carbon intensity. This panel will set the stage for the discussions that follow by framing up the opportunity for industry participants ready to aggressively pursue a carbon strategy at their plant, and the risk of lost opportunity for those producers still on the fence.

• Steffen Mueller, Principal Economist, University of Illinois at Chicago
  High Octane Low Carbon Fuels: The Bridge to Improve Both Gasoline and Electric Vehicles
• Don Siefkes, Executive Director, E100 Ethanol Group
  CO2 Emissions Problem: Implications for the Ethanol Industry and a Proposed Solution
• Donna Funk, Principal, K-Coe Isom LLP
  LCFS – GHG – Emissions – Soil – Air: All Lead to Change
• Bernie Hoffman, Vice President, P&E Solutions LLC
  Time to Develop a Carbon Strategy

Once committed to low-carbon production producers will next need to understand their plant’s carbon intensity, how it is determined and how it should be documented and reported. Once producers establish a thorough understanding of carbon intensity and how it is calculated, they will be in a better position to evaluate technology and process deployments that promise reduced carbon intensity of produced fuel including the two featured in this panel and those featured later in the agenda.

Moderator: Scott Coye-Huhn, Program Manager of Responsible Biofuels, SCS Global Services
• Kari Buttenhoff, Partner, Christianson PLLP
  Potential Reporting and Verification Structure for Farming CIs
• Adam Belyamani, COO, Saola Energy LLC
  Low Carbon Fuel Markets and the Path to Improving Your Facility’s Carbon Intensity Scores
• Shrikant Rathi, Sr. General Manager of Business in Americas, PRAJ Industries Limited
  Lowering Carbon Intensity of Existing Ethanol Facility
• Kevin Jensen, Account Manager, Solar Turbines Incorporated
  Cogeneration to Reduce Carbon Intensity Scores and Improve Reliability

This panel will focus entirely on technological options available to ethanol producers ready to drive down the carbon intensity of their operation now. The presentations in this panel illustrate that while the ambition of low-carbon fuel production may be common, the pathways producers will ultimately pursue are likely to be highly varied. Topics covered during the discussion range from low carbon soil amendments for corn production all the way to cellulosic ethanol production from corn fiber.

• Jeff Roskam, Board of Advisors, PrairieFood
  Innovations in Reducing Carbon Index of Corn for Ethanol Plants
• Jim Ramm, Director of Engineering, EcoEngineers
  The Way to Carbon Neutral Ethanol
• John Oyen, Business Development Manager, ABB Inc.
  Integration and Digital: The Pathway to a Low Carbon Index

Long before the promise of low-carbon fuel markets, energy efficiency deployments won the attention of plant management teams with the promise of reduced expenses and the resultant profit margin improvements. Now, in an era of low-carbon fuel markets, the argument for capital spending aimed at increased efficiency has never been stronger. This final panel features technologies that can drive down operational expenses while simultaneously driving down an ethanol plant’s carbon score.

• Watanabe Keiichiro, Manager, Mitsubishi Chemical Corporation
  Enhancing Energy Efficiency in Zeolite Membrane Dehydration by Recovering the Heat at Former Impossible Line
• Chuck Gallop, Operations Development Manager, ICM Inc.
  Efficient Drying Strategy for High Quality Feed Products, Operational Savings and Lower Capital Investment
• Jeff Prochaska, Industry Technical Consultant, Nalco Water, an Ecolab Company
  Total Plant Assessments Help Facilities Achieve Water and Energy Reductions to Achieve Their Sustainability Initiatives
• William Schafer, CEO, Energy Integration Inc.
  Integrated MVR for Efficiency