| Pathway | BECCS |
|---|---|
| Country | United States |
| Website | https://www.cardinalethanol.com/ |
| cardinal-ethanol-llc | |
| Status | 🟢 Active (score: 70/100) |
| Company size | Medium (50 to 249) (EU SME size class, derived from the LinkedIn size band; exact headcounts are not published) |
| CDR Focus | side_business |
About
Cardinal Ethanol is an Indiana-based corn ethanol producer (roughly 135-140 million gallons per year) that, through the 50/50 One Carbon Partnership joint venture with Vault 44.01, is developing a BECCS project to capture and permanently sequester biogenic fermentation CO2 at its Union City, Indiana plant. In April 2026 the EPA Region 5 issued a final Class VI UIC permit authorizing injection of up to 450,000 metric tons of CO2 per year (about 13.5 million tonnes over 30 years). Ethanol production — not CDR — is Cardinal’s core business; the CCS project is an adjacent decarbonization add-on driven by 45Q, 45Z and low-carbon-fuel economics.
History
- 2026-08-15 — refresh: coresignal
- 2026-07-04 — news mention: First Indiana Carbon Capture And Storage Project Approved, 44.01 Begins Development (source)
- 2026-05-01 — refresh: screenshot
- 2026-05-01 — refresh: coresignal, screenshot
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=BECCS focus=side_business liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-04-19 — refresh: coresignal, screenshot
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=BECCS focus=supplier liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-04-19 — reclassified: pathway=BECCS focus=supplier liveliness=🟢 Active (source)
- 2026-04-18 — backfilled from V1 (source)
AI-maintained, may contain errors. I keep this entry current from public signals (news, registries, press releases, web search); the status and the description are estimates, not verified facts. Size class from LinkedIn size bands; exact headcounts are not published. Seed list: Grant Faber's CDR company list (January 2026, CC BY-NC-SA 4.0). Corrections: info@carbon-drawdown.de. The same data as CSV, JSON and API.