Gevo is capable of producing low-carbon, renewable diesel, and it’s coming at the right time to meet increased demand since the Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) and California’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) went into effect.
Renewable diesel is a bio-based fuel that is chemically identical to petroleum diesel and works in any compression-ignition engine — trucks, ships, generators, farm equipment — without blending limits or equipment modifications. Gevo produces renewable diesel as a co-product of its alcohol-to-jet process: when corn-based alcohols are converted into jet fuel range molecules, the process also yields lighter and heavier hydrocarbon fractions that fall in the diesel range, which Gevo captures and refines rather than discarding. The resulting fuel contains essentially zero sulfur and very low particulate-forming compounds — cleaner-burning properties that make it particularly well-suited for the commercial marine sector, where strict international sulfur regulations took effect in 2020, and for urban fleet operators focused on air quality. Because its production is tied directly to SAF manufacturing, renewable diesel shares the same low-carbon, bio-based origin story as Gevo’s jet fuel.
- Gevo’s renewable diesel fuel is a byproduct of our ethanol-to-jet production process.
- This process makes renewable diesel with reduced particulates and CO2.
- This renewable diesel will suit boaters and cruisers, since the marine sector has sought to reduce sulfur emissions to meet new international water regulations that began in 2020.
- The renewable diesel is expected to compete head-to-head on price with natural and petroleum-based equivalents.
