Gevo is commercializing the next generation of renewable gasoline, jet fuel, and diesel fuel with the potential to achieve zero carbon emissions, addressing the market need of reducing greenhouse gas emissions with sustainable alternatives.
Gevo’s primary market focus, given current demand and growing customer interest, is sustainable aviation fuel (SAF). We believe we also have commercial opportunities for other renewable hydrocarbon products, such as renewable natural gas (“RNG”), hydrocarbons for gasoline blendstocks and diesel fuel, and plastics, materials, and other chemicals. At the core of Gevo, we are a development and commercialization company. We are engaged in technology, process, and intellectual property development targeted to large-scale deployment of net-zero hydrocarbon fuels and chemicals. We are developing the marketplace and customers for SAF and other related products. We also are engaged as a developer and enabler/licensor for large-scale commercial production, and we expect to be a co-investor on certain projects.
Gevo uses low-carbon renewable resource-based carbohydrates as raw materials and is in an advanced state of developing renewable electricity and renewable natural gas for use in production processes, resulting in low-carbon fuels with substantially reduced carbon intensity (the level of greenhouse gas emissions compared to standard petroleum fossil-based fuels across their lifecycle).
Gevo’s products perform as well or better than traditional fossil-based fuels in infrastructure and engines, but with substantially reduced greenhouse gas emissions. In addition to addressing the problems of fuels, Gevo’s technology also enables certain plastics, such as polyester, to be made with more sustainable ingredients. Gevo’s ability to penetrate the growing low-carbon fuels market depends on the price of oil and the value of abating carbon emissions that would otherwise increase greenhouse gas emissions.
Gevo believes that its proven, patented technology enabling the use of a variety of low-carbon sustainable feed stocks to produce price-competitive low carbon products such as gasoline components, jet fuel, and diesel fuel yields the potential to generate project and corporate returns that justify the build-out of a multi-billion dollar business.
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The Circular Economy Is the Key to Our Business System
Gevo believes that its proven, patented technology enabling the use of a variety of low-carbon sustainable feed stocks to produce price-competitive low carbon products such as gasoline components, jet fuel, and diesel fuel yields the potential to generate project and corporate returns that justify the build-out of a multi-billion dollar business.
The circular economy is in motion all around us. It adds quality to our lives and contributes to the collective health of our planet by demanding fewer raw materials—reducing environmental degradation and decreasing emissions, including climate-warming greenhouse gases. The circular economy increases value by improving efficiencies wherever they are found and finds ways to use resources more effectively. This is the core of the Gevo business system; we make use of and conserve renewable energy, provide food, products, and sustainable fuels, advance sustainable agriculture, and redirect, reuse, and reduce carbon emissions to address the climate change challenge.
Positioning carbon in the circular economy is key. While its volume in the atmosphere as part of greenhouse gases is alarming, carbon is in almost everything. It’s a key building block of life in both plants and animals, and it forms energy-storing bonds in fuels, hydrocarbons that are outstanding energy carriers with excellent energy density.
The energy provided by hydrocarbons is critical to our world; it’s the source of the carbon in the equation where the issue arises. At Gevo we expect to use sustainably grown feed corn as a feedstock, to produce high-value nutrition products while using the starch to produce fuels. The corn captures carbon through photosynthesis, using the sun’s energy to draw carbon dioxide from the atmosphere in a cycle, and we conserve carbon emissions throughout our production process.
The efforts outlined below each do at least one of the following: reduce carbon emissions, sequester carbon in the soil, or replace fossil carbon. Just as importantly, they also enhance, defossilize, or decarbonize other elements within the greater Circular Economy.
1. Wind turbines are expected to provide emissions-free electricity to power the Net-Zero 1 facility (NZ-1) under development in Lake Preston, South Dakota, just as they provide energy for our development facility in Luverne, Minnesota.
2. Sustainable farming techniques sequester carbon in the soil while improving yield for growers producing low-carbon corn that’s expected to be used as feedstock for NZ-1. Tracking the carbon savings is key, as the corn is expected to deliver its sustainability through the value chain to the end customer.
3. Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) is expected to replace fossil gas and provide renewable thermal energy to NZ-1. Our RNG processing facility in Northwest Iowa is already up and running, capturing methane from the manure of 20,000 dairy cows that would otherwise leach into the atmosphere, and transforming it to a renewable energy source.