Renewable Energy Report: August 2009 Newsletter

The Renewable Energy Newsletter provides information and analysis from agricultural economists and others on current issues facing the emerging renewable energy industry. More information on renewable energy can be found at our website. Please send comments on issues or topics by contacting me at dhof@iastate.edu or 641-423-0844. You can sign-up...
AgMRC Renewable Energy Newsletter August 2009 Robert Wisner Professor of Economics and Energy Economist Ag Marketing Resources Center Iowa State University rwwisner@iastate.edu This article is a companion piece to a recent article that appeared in the AgMRC Renewable Fuels Newsletter by Dr. Dan O’Brien and Dr. Mike Woolverton from Kansas...
AgMRC Renewable Energy Newsletter August 2009 Don Hofstrand Co-director Agricultural Marketing Resource Center dhof@iastate.edu (Second in a Series of Two) In last month’s article we discussed recent University of Nebraska research showing the Net Energy Balance, Ethanol to Petroleum ratio and Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions from the corn ethanol industry....
AgMRC Renewable Energy Newsletter August 2009 Robert Wisner Professor of Economics and Energy Economist Ag Marketing Resources Center Iowa State University rwwisner@iastate.edu In several previous articles, we have pointed out that the ethanol industry faces an emerging U.S. “blending wall”.(1) The industry currently has two markets: a blend of 10%...