US Ethanol: From Corn To Credits

Peter Ruvalcaba is a North America Carbon market and environmental commodities analyst. His areas of focus include the North American carbon markets: WCI, RGGI, and Washington as well as the California LCFS market and the Federal Renewable Fuel standard RINs market.

Orlando Rodriguez is a Market Analyst in the Agriculture Research team at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG). Orlando holds a bachelor’s degree in Agricultural Engineering from Zamorano University and a master’s in Agricultural Economics from Purdue University. Before joining LSEG, Orlando worked in the agricultural banking industry in Latin America. He possesses research experience in the agricultural financial and economic decision-making process in the U.S. Orlando’s work at LSEG focuses on the demand side analysis for the primary agricultural commodities and biofuels traded in the global market.

Aishwarya Gogoi is the Senior Carbon Analyst for LSEG Commodities Research. She focuses on the research content development and building analytics covering carbon markets in North America. Aishwarya creates fundamental market supply and demand, price forecasts while helping customers worldwide interpret LSEG D&A’ s abundance of data.  She transitioned from her role of Senior Refined Products Analyst in LSEG Oil Research & Forecasts in Americas. Her energy market knowledge comes from her extensive experience in the oil and gas industry prior to LSEG.  Aishwarya holds a master’s degree in petroleum engineering from University of Houston.

Shameek Ghosh is the Senior Petrochemical Analyst for the Americas at LSEG. He covers not only the Americas Petrochemicals market, but also Americas Biofuels and US Clean Product Swaps Pricing. Shameek’s energy industry career started in 2007 at Jim Jordan & Associates as a Global Biofuels Analyst. He then joined Platts in 2011 as an Associate Editor for Americas Petrochemicals, with focus on aromatics, before switching back to Biofuels coverage, where he helped develop the inaugural Platts Biofuels Alert and Platts Biofuelscan publications. In 2016, Shameek joined the Thomson Reuters Oil Research Team, which eventually turned into the LSEG US Oil Research Team. He publishes a US Clean Product Daily Swaps Pricing report each day, in addition to a weekly US Weekly Ethanol Report – featuring a very unique US Weekly Ethanol Balance that shows what each barrel of ethanol in the US is doing each week – and several monthly US Petrochemical Trade Data regional and global reports.