EPA: 1 new SRE petition filed, 131 SRE petitions currently pending
SOURCE: U.S. EPA
December 20, 2024
BY Erin Krueger
The U.S. EPA on Dec. 19 released updated small refinery exemption (SRE) data reporting that one new SRE petition has been filed under the Renewable Fuel Standard during the past month. According to EPA, 131 SRE petitions are currently pending.
The newly filed petition was filed by Par Montana Refining seeking a waiver of the compliance year 2023 RFS renewable volume obligations (RVOs) for its refinery in Billings, Montanta.
The 131 pending SRE petitions now include two for compliance year 2016; one for compliance year 2017; 38 for compliance year 2018; 27 for compliance year 2019; 28 for compliance year 2020; five for compliance year 2021; three for compliance year 2022; 14 for compliance year 2023; 10 for compliance year 2024; and three for compliance year 2025.
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The EPA’s online SRE data dashboard also includes data on small refineries that have opted into the agency’s alternative renewable identification number (RIN) retirement schedule for the 2020 compliance year. According to the EPA’s online data dashboard, 17 small refineries are participating in the alternative RIN retirement schedule, with the total renewable volume obligation (RVO) for those refineries at 880 million RINs. A total of 540 million RINs have been retired under the alternative retirement schedule as of Dec. 19. The total outstanding RVO is currently at 340 million RINs, according to EPA’s data dashboard.
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