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U.S. Ethanol Capacity Unchanged
America began 2013 with capacity to make 13.9 billion gallons of ethanol per year, an increase of less than 1% from a year earlier, according to the U.S.
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America began 2013 with capacity to make 13.9 billion gallons of ethanol per year, an increase of less than 1% from a year earlier, according to the U.S. Energy Information Administration.
The EIA's annual report counts 193 ethanol plants in operation in January 2013 compared with 194 facilities at the same time last year.
The report calculates capacity in terms of the volume of denatured alcohol that can be made during a 12-month period under normal operating conditions. The EIA, now in its third year of reporting, says it will no longer estimate maximum sustainable capacity.
The Renewable Fuel Standard enacted in 2007 mandates that the U.S. transportation sector boost its use of biofuels virtually all of which currently is ethanol made from corn from 13.2 billion gallons in 2012 to 15 billion gallons by 2015 and 36 billion gallons by 2020.
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