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Get a grip on renewable fuel credit complexity in 3 easy steps

Read about D4T, the world's first licensed theoretical value of an environmental credit Send a purchase order for Hoekstra Research ...
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What’s next for cellulosic biofuels and the D3 RIN?

A main objective of the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) in 2007 was to trigger development of a market of at ...
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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” ...
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The 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, ...
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The 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 ...
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The 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 ...
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Why The Gap Between the D4T Theoretical Price and D4 RIN Market Price?

I have been asked how the D4T theoretical price (yellow line in Figure 1) is calculated and why it is ...
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The New Game of Renewable Fuels Part 3 – WHY Are The RFS Mandates Nested?

The spectacular increase in the price of the D6 Renewable Identification Number (RIN) in 2013 was one of the most ...
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The New Game of Renewable Fuels Part 2 – Principles 1, 2, and 3

The RIN is a game-changing environmental credit that is a tax, a subsidy, and a mandate, all at once.  Read ...
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The New Game of Renewable Fuels – The Rules Of The Game

The Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) caused many businesses to be thrust involuntarily into a new game.  The game came with ...
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