Tax credits jump start Midwest carbon capture projects

Photo caption: Adkins Energy’s Ethanol and Biodiesel production facility in Lena, Illinois, on Wednesday, June 21, 2023. […] Photo credit: Nick Rohlman, Cedar Rapids Gazette. Article by Erin Jordan, The Gazette and Juanpablo Ramirez-Franco, Harvest Public Media. Investigate Midwest – July 7, 2023.

LENA, Ill. — On any given day, about 175,000 tons of carbon dioxide — equivalent to the emissions of 38,000 vehicles – stream from Adkins Energy. This northwest Illinois plant turns corn into ethanol, long touted as a renewable energy source. Now the plant is thinking of ways to go greener. If a taxpayer-funded pilot project is successful, the Adkins Energy plant will capture all that CO2 that emits into the air and turn it into green methanol — an in-demand renewable fuel. […]

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