EPA: 5 new SRE petitions filed, 161 SRE petitions currently pending
SOURCCE: U.S. EPA
April 17, 2025
BY Erin Voegele
The U.S. EPA on April 17 published updated small refinery exemption (SRE) data showing that five new SRE petitions have been filed under the Renewable Fuel Standard during the past month. According to the agency, 161 SRE petitions are currently pending, up from 156 SRE petitions that were blending as of mid-March.
The five newly filed SRE petitions include two filed by Superior Refining Co. on March 25 seeking exemptions of compliance year 2023 and 2024 blending requirements for it facility in Superior, Wisconsin; one filed by Alon Refining Krotz Springs on April 11 seeking a waiver of compliance year 2022 blending requirements for its facility in Krotz Springs, Louisiana; one filed by Alon USA on April 11 seeking an exemption of compliance year 2022 blending requirements for its facility in Big Spring, Texas; and one filed by Delek Refining seeking a waiver of compliance year 2022 blending requirements for its facility in Tyler, Texas.
The 161 currently pending SRE petitions 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; 17 for compliance year 2021; 13 for compliance year 2022; 13 for compliance year 2023; 16 for compliance year 2024; and six for compliance year 2025.
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The EPA took no action to approve or deny any SRE petitions during the past month.
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 April 17. The total outstanding RVO is currently at 340 million RINs, according to EPA’s data dashboard.
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