- CEO
- Jodi Johnson
- Full Time Employees
- 48
- Sector
- Energy
- Industry
- Oil & Gas Refining & Marketing
- Address
- 3682 Highway 8 South Richardton ND United States of America 58652
- IPO Date
- Sep 25, 2012
- Business
- Red Trail Energy, LLC (REGX) operates a corn-based ethanol production facility near Richardton, North Dakota. The company produces fuel-grade ethanol, distillers dried grains, modified distillers grains, and corn oil; it also captures and sequesters carbon dioxide from the fermentation process via an adjacent carbon capture and storage facility with capacity exceeding 1 million metric tons annually. Additional services encompass grain receiving, drying, storage, administration, maintenance, processing, and E85 sales to local farmers, businesses, and employees.
Founded in 2003 and headquartered at 3682 Highway 8 South, P.O. Box 11, Richardton, ND 58652, Red Trail Energy serves the renewable fuels sector, targeting fuel blenders, livestock feed markets, biodiesel producers, and voluntary carbon credit buyers in the continental United States. The facility maintains nameplate capacity of 50 million gallons of ethanol annually, with actual production exceeding this level.
In February 2025, Gevo, Inc. completes acquisition of substantially all Red Trail Energy assets, including the ethanol plant, CCS infrastructure, pore space, and operational personnel, for $210 million, funded by Gevo equity and a $105 million senior secured term loan from Orion Infrastructure Capital; the site rebrands as Gevo North Dakota or Net-Zero North, positioning it for sustainable aviation fuel expansion. Red Trail Energy achieves multiple milestones beforehand, including first ethanol plant issuance of CO2 Removal Certificates (CORCs) via Puro.earth in 2024, verified at 221,264 tonnes net CO2 removal, and ongoing CCS operations since 2022. The entity files as South 8 Energy, LLC post-acquisition while retaining REGX ticker.