Poet’s Broin says E27 is needed to satisfy RFS

Ethanol Producer Magazine
December 2010
By Kris Bevill
Posted Dec. 9, 2010

Poet LLC CEO Jeff Broin told attendees at a recent energy conference that the U.S. will need to eventually utilize the equivalent of E27 in the nation's fuel supply in order to meet renewable fuel standard (RFS) targets. Ethanol has already become a “major force” in the U.S. transportation fuels market, he said, but the ethanol blend wall is preventing the industry from further contributing to the nation’s fuel supply and market expansion is a necessity.

“The market’s getting full,” he said. “In fact, it is full. Today we’re at about 92 percent saturation. There’s more capacity out there today than the blend wall will absorb, but secondly, we have a law that’s in conflict with a rule. Today, E10 doesn’t even fill up first-generation biofuels in this country and certainly will not make room for fuels of the future - advanced biofuels and cellulosic biofuels. So, we’ve got a problem. At some point in time, we’ve got to get to about 27 percent ethanol in this country in our gasoline in order to meet the RFS.”

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