Contrary to developments in other parts of the world, South Africa has not developed a bio-ethanol industry. The … objective was to quantify the risks and economic viability of a wheat based bio-ethanol plant in the winter rainfall region of … South Africa. Monte Carlo simulation of a bio-ethanol plant was used to quantify the risk that investors will likely face …

The fast-growing US ethanol industry has historically been characterized by large downstream investments made by … ethanol manufacturers themselves. The model framework used herein expands on the original VEST framework developed by Siebert …

A mail survey was used to collect information about input procurement and ethanol and co-product marketing practices … from 60 U.S. ethanol production facilities. Data were used to answer questions about the conduct or behavior of ethanol … producers. It was anticipated that firm conduct or behavior would be fairly homogeneous because the ethanol industry was in …

conditions of the market. Importantly our work also sheds light on the implicit risks of the ethanol industry, and in part … explains how corn-based dry mills and cellulosic-ethanol conversion technologies may be ideal depending on the type of market …