Green Plains executives called for restraint when restarting ethanol plants, asking producers to be smart when they bring plants back online, as consistent oversupply has been an historic issue for fuel ethanol markets, reports ICIS.
While some plants have announced longer shutdowns, others are in what is called a 'warm' shutdown, wherein a plant can be up and operating within a week.
Around 20% of the shuttered ethanol plants are in a cold shutdown. It will take around six weeks to get one of these plants back online, according to Green Plains.
