Gevo addresses the market need of reducing greenhouse gas emissions with sustainable alternatives.
We are commercializing the next generation of advanced, bio-based renewable fuels with sustainable aviation fuel, renewable premium gasoline, renewable natural gas, and chemicals and plastics that have the potential to achieve zero carbon emissions over the lifecycle of the fuel or product.
To make our energy-dense liquid hydrocarbons, Gevo uses low-carbon renewable resource-based carbohydrates as raw materials and is developing renewable electricity and renewable natural gas for use in production processes, resulting in low-carbon fuels with substantially reduced carbon intensity. Our 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 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 feedstocks 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.
Gevo Firsts Show a History of True Innovation
Gevo’s business is based on a circular economy, where reducing carbon emissions and incorporating efficiency and renewable energy increase value throughout the supply chain. But it doesn’t happen overnight: Our process is evolving as we take in innovative ideas from laboratory and technological development. When implemented these groundbreaking concepts lead to firsts in reality, and the list, already long, continues to grow.
2010
First to make renewable Avgas
2010
First to make fully renewable synthetic butylene rubber
2011
First to produce alcohol-to-jet and gasoline at demonstration plant scale
2011
First to make
fully renewable p-xylene and PET for bottles, films, and fibers
2012
First to prove commercial isobutanol (IBA) fermentation at scale
2014
First successful demonstration of side-by-side commercial scale production of ethanol and isobutanol
2014
First ATJ SAF flights (U.S. Navy Warthog)
2014
First to alcohol to polymer grade bio-based propylene from alcohol
2015
First to fly with ATJ made from wood waste, flown by Alaska Airlines
2015
First commercial sale of IBA-blended gasoline at retail
2016
First to obtain ASTM approval for ATJ
2016
First to demonstrate ATJ work at O’Hare
2017
First commercial sale of renewable premium gasoline
2017
First ATJ in Australia, flown by Virgin Australia
2018
First ATJ Business Aviation off-take agreement (AvFuel)
2019
First to receive ISCC+ Global Sustainability Certification for ATJ
2019
First long-term,
take-or-pay ATJ agreement (Delta Airlines)
2019
First to design an integrated net-zero alcohol and hydrocarbons plants with off-the-grid capability
2020
First to obtain certification from Roundtable for Sustainable Biomaterials (RSB)
2021
First to do peer-reviewed, published LCA of ATJ
2022
First to design a large-scale ATJ plant
2022
First to break ground on a Net-Zero Hydrocarbon Facility (Lake Preston, SD)
