The Digest’s 2026 Multi-Slide Guide to Carbon-Negative Ethanol

By integrating on-site CCS, climate-smart agriculture, and renewable power, ethanol producers can engineer deep-negative carbon intensities (CI) of -20 to -50. However, the federal 45Z credit floors crop-based feedstocks at zero, meaning this deep-negative achievement earns no extra federal premium. The financial value of negative CI relies entirely on state LCFS programs. Because California is actively tightening LCFS benchmarks, developers must underwrite these projects with strong physical product economics that survive potential credit recalibrations.

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