This study examines the financial feasibility of producing ethanol biofuel from sugar beets in central North Dakota … risks of production for a 10MGY (million gallon per year) and 20MGY ethanol plant. Study results indicate that feedstock … breakeven ethanol price for the 20MGY plant is $1.52 per gallon and $1.71 per gallon for the 10MGY plant. Breakeven prices for …

. Both the ethanol and biodiesel industries have experienced tremendous growth in the past few years. The production of these …

This article estimates factors that impact location decisions by new ethanol plants using logistic regression analysis … competing ethanol plant reduces the likelihood of making a positive location decision and this impact decreases with distance …. State-level subsidies are significant and a very important factor impacting ethanol location decisions. …

Using pooled regional time-series data and panel data estimation, we quantify the impact of monthly ethanol production … on monthly retail regular gasoline prices. This analysis suggests that the growth in ethanol production has caused retail … negative impact of ethanol on gasoline prices varies considerably across regions. The Midwest region has the biggest impact, at …

estimates. To bring more clarity to this issue, we review studies on U.S. corn ethanol expansion released between 2008 and 2013 …. Normalizing corn price impacts by the increase in corn ethanol volume, we find that each billion gallon expansion in ethanol …, projection year, inclusion of ethanol co-products, international biofuel production, and baseline and policy ethanol volumes …