CHS Inc., St. Paul, Minn., announced on Aug. 2 that it will offer E15 high octane gasoline blended with 15 percent ethanol at an additional 19 fuel terminals starting in August 2021. CHS is registered with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as an E15 manufacturer and sells E15 as an approved grade of fuel through its Cenex® brand retail locations.
CHS plans to offer E15 at Magellan terminals in Alexandria, Mankato, Marshall, Minneapolis, and Rochester, Minn.; Cheyenne, Wyo.; Columbia and Springfield, Mo.; Des Moines, Mason City, Milford, and Waterloo, Iowa; Doniphan and Omaha, Neb.; Fargo and Grand Forks, N.D.; and Great Bend, Kan. The fuel will also now be available through the Nustar terminal in Jamestown, N.D., and the CHS terminal in McPherson, Kan.
“As the nation’s leading farmer-owned cooperative, expanding options for ethanol blended fuel is important for our Cenex brand retailers and our farmer-owners,” said Akhtar Hussain, CHS Director of Refined Fuels Marketing. “CHS has always been committed to offering ethanol blended flexible fuels throughout its network of 1,450 Cenex brand retail facilities. We continue to demonstrate this commitment by working with our terminal partners to offer higher ethanol blends in a broader geography across the Cenex retail network.”
In addition to these new terminals, CHS already offers E15 at 10 other Nustar terminals and one CHS terminal. CHS also owns two EPA-approved ethanol plants in Rochelle and Annawan, Ill. To make E15 more accessible, CHS said it has removed barriers for its Cenex brand retail locations by establishing an EPA-approved misfueling mitigation plan and establishing E15 as a qualifying grade of fuel.