CARB updates carbon intensity for sugarcane and sweet sorghum

In California, California Ethanol & Power, LLC (CE&P) announced the updated carbon intensity (CI) for its anticipated sugarcane and sweet sorghum ethanol. On May 9, 2016, California’s Air Resources Board (CARB) under the state’s Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) released recertified fuel pathways from their updated GREET model which evaluates the energy and emission effects of transportation fuels.

CE&P’s fuel pathways were certified on March 31, 2016, with their sugarcane ethanol at a CI of 22.44 revised from 54.47 and their sweet sorghum ethanol at a CI of 30.63 revised from 39.0. CE&P has a blended average CI of ~25 revised from ~49. CARB updated existing CI values certified under the previous LCFS regulation and calculated using the CA-GREET 1.8b model to new values calculated using the CA-GREET 2.0 model under the LCFS re-adopted in September 2015, as listed at: http://www.arb.ca.gov/fuels/lcfs/fuelpathways/pathwaytable.htm.