Aemetis Receives Permit to Build California SAF, Renewable Diesel Plant -- OPIS
September 25 2023 - 2:30PM
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Aemetis Inc. has received a use permit from the city of
Riverbank to build a 90-million-gallon/year sustainable aviation
fuel and renewable diesel plant at its 125-acre industrial complex,
the California-based biofuels producer said.
The complex, a former U.S. Army ammunition production plant, is
being converted to business and industrial use as part of the
federal Base Realignment and Closure program.
Aemetis has signed $3.8 billion of SAF supply contracts with
airlines, and a $3.2 billion renewable diesel supply contract with
a national chain of travel stops.
The plant will include about $500 million of investment and
create more than 800 jobs during construction, the company said
last week, as well as an estimated 650 permanent direct and
indirect jobs.
Separately, Aemetis said earlier this month that its Universal
Biofuels subsidiary has completed an expansion of its India
biodiesel plant annual production capacity to 60 million gal more
than a year ahead of schedule, supplying the expanding demand for
biodiesel by India government-owned Oil Marketing Companies
(OMCs).
The Aemetis Five Year Plan describes a doubling of annual output
to 100 million gal from 50 million gal to be completed by 2025.
Additional capital projects to increase the annual capacity of
the plant, located in Kakinada, to 80 million gal "are in process
for completion in the first half of 2024, also ahead of schedule,"
the company said.
"The market for biodiesel in India continues to expand as OMCs
increase the number of blending locations and the percentage of
biofuel blended into diesel," Aemetis International President
Sanjeev Gupta said in a statement.
The plant expanded production, he added, "by completing upgrades
to de-bottleneck the plant, and the next phase will add additional
process equipment to increase capacity."
When annual capacity reaches 100 million gal, the business will
be able to generate more than $500 million per year of revenues,
according to Gupta.
"Aemetis continues to demonstrate our ability to design,
engineer, permit, construct and operate renewable fuels production
facilities, then continually improve the energy efficiency,
feedstocks, and other carbon intensive components of operations to
improve financial margins by reducing costs and increasing
revenues," Aemetis CEO Eric McAfee said in a statement.
The plant, located in Andhra Pradesh, is the largest biodiesel
production facility in India, according to Aemetis, which said that
expanded biodiesel production supports the Indian government's goal
of a 5% biodiesel blend equal to approximately 1.25 billion
gal/year, which was established in the 2022 National Biofuels
Policy.
"India consumes about 25 billion gal per year of diesel, but
India does not have a meaningful amount of domestic oil production
and is dependent on imported crude oil to supply its petroleum
refineries," Aemetis says. "The adoption of a 5% biodiesel blend
target by the India government is expected to reduce the amount of
petroleum imported into India, reduce the export of dollars to
purchase crude oil, strengthen domestic agricultural producers and
processors and significantly improve air quality while reducing
carbon pollution."
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--Reporting by Michael Schneider, mschneider@opisnet.com;
Editing by Jordan Godwin, jgodwin@opisnet.com
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