Archive for August 2024
Sustainable Aviation Fuel And The RIN Subsidy- Policy and Economics
Tune in to this 36-minute episode of the Climate Now podcast which dissects the “most complex environmental credit ever invented” with two experts in the field: George Hoekstra, President of Hoekstra Trading, and Brooke Coleman, the Executive Director of the Advanced Biofuels Business Council. https://climatenow.com/podcast/sustainable-aviation-fuel-episode-4/ Recommendation Get Hoekstra Research Report 10 Hoekstra Trading clients use…
Read MoreThe New Game of Renewable Fuels Part 6 – Playing By The Rules
A renewable identification number (RIN) is a tax, a subsidy, a mandate, a financial asset that can be banked, borrowed, and traded, a contingent claim, and part of a four-component nested structure, all packed into one instrument. That’s why we call it the most complex environmental credit ever invented. Read the other blogs in this…
Read MoreThe New Game of Renewable Fuels Part 5 – Changing Factors
In this blog series we are explaining how the invention of the renewable identification number (RIN) environmental credit in 2007 was a game changing development in the fuels industry. The RIN is more than just an environmental credit. It is a cleverly designed financial instrument. In fact, we claim it changed the fuels game in…
Read MoreThe New Game of Renewable Fuels Part 4 – Rewind to June 2023, On The Brink of a RIN Price Collapse
In this blog series, we are explaining how the invention of the Renewable Identification Number (RIN) environmental credit in 2007 was a game-changing development in the fuels industry. The RIN is a clever, sophisticated financial instrument – in fact, we have made the bold claim that the RIN alters fuels economics in ways so unfamiliar…
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