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Gevo North Dakota Awarded “A” Rating from BeZero Carbon, Affirming its High-Quality Carbon Removal Credits
Gevo’s carbon dioxide removal credits from its North Dakota facility expected to improve in value with a higher grade from an independent rating agency with a
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[{"type":"text","content":"Gevo’s carbon dioxide removal credits from its North Dakota facility expected to improve in value with a higher grade from an independent rating agency with a global reputation\nENGLEWOOD, Colo., Dec. 18, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Gevo, Inc. (NASDAQ: GEVO) is pleased to announce that BeZero Carbon Ltd., a preeminent global carbon rating agency, has upgraded its rating for the Gevo North Dakota (“GND”) facility that has carbon capture and storage to an “A” rating. Gevo is a pioneer in the voluntary carbon markets (“VCM”) focused on the production and delivery of carbon dioxide removal certificates, known as CORCs under the high-integrity Puro.earth standard. The GND facility is the largest producer of technology-based carbon dioxide removal credits and is the only ethanol carbon capture and storage project to issue credits for thousand-year permanence, under Puro.earth’s “Geologically Stored Carbon” methodology. “CORCs are gaining traction in the growing VCM and are expected to provide valuable co-product revenue for our operations. We anticipate this BeZero Carbon ‘A’ rating will only improve its value,” says Alex Clayton, Chief Business Development Officer at Gevo. “Our Class VI carbon-storage well has shown outstanding performance since it started in June of 2022, and we believe we are well positioned with our well that has 1 million tons per year of capacity, to be a consistent source of CORCs at meaningful scale. This BeZero Carbon ‘A’ rating simplifies the due diligence process for buyers reviewing our project for key quality parameters and places us in a top tier relative to other carbon projects.” GND sources most of its corn feedstock from within 75 miles of the facility and will be leveraging Verity, a Gevo-developed carbon-tracking platform for upstream agriculture measurement, reporting, and verification (MRV) to document sustainable agriculture practices, create transparency in agricultural value chains, and provide tools for land assessment. “We will soon be piloting an updated sustainable biomass sourcing and management program that enables us to gather deeper data on the agricultural practices of our feedstock growers through our Verity platform,” said Nancy Young, Chief Sustainability Officer at Gevo. “We are committed to ensuring the highest level of environmental integrity, which also increases the value of our ...