In Colorado, Kemvera has completed the process design package (FEL 1) for its planned 50,000 metric tons per year commercial-scale plant. To support scale-up for this commercial facility, Kemvera completed the design for a 500 metric tons per year pre-commercial demonstration reactor and recently commissioned its 20 metric tons per year pilot reactor and validated […]
In Colorado, Gevo’s North Dakota plant has issued more than 500,000 engineered carbon-dioxide removal certificates, known as CORCs, since carbon capture and storage activities began in June of 2022. “Reaching half a million CORCs is a significant milestone, and we congratulate Gevo on being the first carbon removal supplier to achieve this level of scale,” […]
In Colorado, Gevo, Inc. has been awarded U.S. Patent No. 12,486,207 B2 from the United States Patent and Trademark Office. The patent broadens protections for different catalyst combinations and explicitly protects the use of Ethanol-to-Olefins (“ETO”) technology to produce fuels. Gevo is developing ETO with partners LG Chem, Ltd. to deploy Gevo’s next-generation ETO process […]
In Colorado, Gevo, Inc. says that BeZero Carbon Ltd., a preeminent global carbon rating agency, has upgraded its rating for the Gevo North Dakota (“GND”) facility that has carbon capture and storage to an “A” rating. Gevo is a pioneer in the voluntary carbon markets focused on the production and delivery of carbon dioxide removal […]
In Colorado, Growth Energy filed briefs in the U.S. Courts of Appeals for the 10th and 11th Circuits urging the courts to reject attempts by refiners to circumvent recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent on venue by bringing challenges to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) August 2025 small refinery exemption (SRE) decision in those two […]
In Colorado, Gevo, Inc. has completed the sale transaction of Agri-Energy, LLC (“Agri”), a wholly owned subsidiary of Gevo, to A.E. Innovation, LLC. The transaction includes Agri’s 18-million-gallon-per-year ethanol-production facility and a portion of the adjacent land, located in Luverne, Minnesota. For Gevo, this is a divestiture of a non-core asset that provided $2 million […]
In Colorado, Gevo, Inc. announced the production and delivery of certified carbon dioxide removal credits, known as CORCs under the high-integrity Puro.earth standard, to Biorecro North America, LLC, marking a major milestone in the commercialization of durable carbon removal from its North Dakota operations. This delivery is the first fulfillment against the multi-year agreement announced […]
In Colorado, Gevo, Inc. previously announced on October 16, 2024, that it secured conditional commitment from U.S. Department of Energy Loan Programs Office to guarantee a $1.46 billion loan, excluding $167 million in capitalized interest during construction, for its ATJ-60 synthetic aviation fuel project (formerly known as Net-Zero 1) in Lake Preston, South Dakota. On October 8, 2025, the […]
In Colorado, Cascade Bio has secured $6M to accelerate the shift from petrochemicals to biomanufacturing. The funding includes a $2.8M seed round led by Endurance28 with participation from Stray Dog Capital, 1Flourish, Range Ventures, 10VC, and Amplify plus $3.2M in nondilutive funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF) through the Advancing Cell-Free Systems Toward […]
In Colorado, South Platte Renew (SPR) completed construction on the Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) System in October 2019, the first of its kind in Colorado. The system converts biogas from the water renewal process into pipeline-quality RNG that is injected into Xcel Energy’s natural gas pipeline. Since becoming operational, it has generated approximately $11 million […]
