Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Bill Northey has requested continued funding for the state’s Renewable Fuels Infrastructure Program. That amounts to $3 million annually for the state to provide a cost share program for retailers to add infrastructure for E15, E85 or biodiesel. Iowa Renewable Fuels Association Executive Director Monte Shaw says the program has generated a lot of interest and been very cost effective.
He says part of the funding is used for identification stickers on the fuel pumps and the rest to cost share grants.
Shaw says it’s not entirely state money that makes this program run, there’s also private funding from a cost share.
Since 2007, the Iowa Renewable Fuels Infrastructure Program has provided more than $33 million to fuel retailers. That includes 309 projects to install E85 or ethanol blender pumps and 413 projects to install biodiesel pumps or storage tanks.
