• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Neil Koehler

Renewable Fuels Association

Policy Advisor

Neil has over 35 years of experience in ethanol production, marketing and policy in the United States. Mr. Koehler co-founded Pacific Ethanol in 2003 and served as its President and CEO until his retirement from the company in 2020. Mr. Koehler served as the Chairman of the Renewable Fuels Association from 2018-2020 and is now working with the RFA on the development of clean fuels policies throughout the United States.

Sessions With Neil Koehler

Tuesday, 10 March

  • 04:40pm - 05:25pm (CST) / -

    Plenary - Agriculture & Energy

    Along with fertilizer, crop protection chemicals, transportation, and packaging, biofuels are a major area of intersection between agriculture and energy. Over the past 15 years, biofuels production has increased globally and has become a major part of the energy profile of developed and developing countries. While energy security and farm income support were early pillars of biofuels policy, biofuels as a solution to developing renewable, sustainable, low-carbon sources of energy is a major theme in both commercial and policy organizations considering future biofuels development. What are the geographic differences in areas such as feedstocks and policy? How will technology play a role? What are the critical policy changes that could happen? What role will energy prices play?