Biofuels & Bioenergy
All the intelligence you need, from feedstocks to ticket markets
Overview
S&P Global offers unparalleled, comprehensive visibility throughout the biofuels and bioenergy value chain, encompassing everything from feedstocks to credit and ticket markets, underpinned by essential policy analysis to support key decisions.
In contrast to other providers, we provide a fully integrated intelligence offering to create a seamless perspective on the biofuels and bioenergy sector. This includes market reporting, price assessments and benchmarks, trend analysis, climate risk metrics, and forecasting based on fundamentals for short, medium, and long-term outlooks.
Using our data and insights, customers are better equipped to protect and enhance margins, spot profitable trades and adjust production capabilities. We empower organizations throughout the value chain to manage sustainability risks with agility and seize market opportunities at speed.
Ideal For
C-Suite
- Deliver commercial strategy and achieve associated goals.
- Understand emerging trends and assess competitive advantage.
- Help filter through the noise and support conversations with investors.
Strategic Planners
- Position long-term outlooks, leveraging supply-demand balances, and thorough policy analysis.
- Develop strategies around capacity investment decisions.
- Assess the physical and nature risk profile of assets and portfolios.
Operations
- Spot market bottlenecks early to reduce costs, maintain margins, and source responsibly.
- Evaluate options for spare capacity and track competitors outputs.
Trading
- Validate price benchmarks and short-term market fundamentals to determine trading positions.
- Demonstrate understanding of price drivers and put these in context.
- Evaluate potential trades and spot market opportunities
Markets Covered
Ethanol
Biodiesel/FAME
Renewable diesel/HVO
Sustainable Aviation Fuels
Biofuels Feedstocks
RVOs
ETBE
RINs
Capabilities
Price Assessments & Benchmarks
- Current proprietary biofuels price assessments, including ethanol, biodiesel/FAME, renewable diesel/HVO, SAF, RVOs, ETBE and RINs.
- Robust and transparent methodology that brings consistency to our price coverage and guidance to our market specialists throughout the assessment process.
Market Reporting & Insight
- Weekly market commentary for all major ethanol and biofuel-producing regions worldwide.
- Frequent, in-depth analysis of market drivers that impact production, trade, pricing or policy.
- Comprehensive coverage of biofuel-related legislation and mandates.
- Thorough assessment of feedstock markets, including availability, price and legislative constraints.
Market Fundamentals Forecasts & Data
- Monthly global ethanol and biofuels short-term forecasts (price, trade, production).
- Annual global biofuels long-term supply/demand and feedstock demand outlooks.
- Quarterly global biofuels and feedstocks long-term price outlooks.
- Frequently updated plant capacities database covering conventional fuels (ethanol and biodiesel) and drop-in fuels (renewable diesel and SAF). Drop-in fuel projects are also tracked.
- Physical, nature and biodiversity risk scores for biofuels plants in our database.
- Global ethanol and biodiesel balances and trade backed up with historical data.
Consulting
- Project consulting services spanning all biofuels sector needs, from bespoke policy research and feasibility studies to M&A due diligence for investments reviewing everything from market forecasts to competitor intelligence.
Key Price Assessments
Location | Platts Benchmarks and Assessment | Commodity |
|---|---|---|
North America | Ethanol Chicago Pipe | Ethanol |
Ethanol NYH Barge Mo01 | Ethanol | |
Ethanol Chicago IL Swap Mo01 | Ethanol | |
Europe | Ethanol T2 FOB Rdam Barge Eut/mt | Ethanol |
Global | FAME, RNE, FME | Biodiesel |
HVO, SAF, UCO, UCOME, Biobunkers | Advanced Fuels | |
HVO, SAF, UCO, UCOME | Advanced Fuels |
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