Our Vision

 

Declining petroleum reserves, concerns about energy security and climate change are driving demand for renewable transportation fuels. The market is demanding a cost-effective way to use multiple, geographically-dispersed feedstocks to produce commercial quantities of drop-in compatible renewable fuels.

 

The key and limiting factor to biofuels production is feedstocks. Transitioning from petroleum-based fuels to biomass-based fuels requires a transition of feedstock used in the production of liquid transportation fuels from petroleum to carbohydrates. Carbohydrates are bulky plant materials that come in many small streams of diverse and geographically-dispersed biomass feedstocks. The experience, relationships and feedstock control that ethanol and first generation biofuels producers have cultivated positions them well for future biofuels opportunities.

 

These first generation biofuels producers and crop processors are our friends and neighbors and we do business with them frequently. Biofuels production is and will continue to be a significant and growing part of the agribusiness sector. Capitaline is well positioned to make strategic investments in biofuels as opportunities arise. We expect opportunities for biofuels investments will continue to be located in the Midwest, where the feedstocks are located.

 

In addition to our support of current generation renewable energy, Capitaline is invested in JetE, a next generation biofuels company that was founded with the purpose of facilitating the cost-effective distributed production of green jet and green diesel fuels. JetE’s distributed production model moves the production of fuel close to bulky biomass feedstocks and end-use markets, while moving control and economics to communities.