FAQs

• What is Prima CarbonZero?

  Prima CarbonZero is ResourceWise’s biofuels and low-carbon feedstocks market intelligence platform. It brings together pricing, market fundamentals, policy intelligence, production capacity, trade flows, forecasts, and expert analysis to help market participants understand changing market conditions and make more informed commercial decisions.  

• Who uses Prima CarbonZero?

  Prima CarbonZero supports organizations that produce, buy, sell, trade, finance, or invest in renewable fuels and low-carbon feedstocks. ResourceWise serves renewable fuel producers, feedstock producers, fuel and agricultural traders, manufacturers, financial institutions, and other organizations exposed to these markets.

• Does Prima CarbonZero provide biofuel pricing data?

  Yes. Prima CarbonZero provides current and historical pricing across renewable fuels, feedstocks, and tickets, alongside analysis of the market drivers affecting price formation. Coverage includes spot and forward-looking pricing information across major low-carbon markets.

• How is Prima CarbonZero different from other biofuels market intelligence services?

  Prima CarbonZero is designed to connect multiple parts of the renewable fuels value chain in one intelligence environment, including fuels, feedstocks, credits, pricing, market fundamentals, trade, production capacity, policy, and expert analysis. This connected approach can help users understand relationships between upstream developments and downstream market outcomes rather than viewing individual datasets in isolation.

• Why should I trust Prima CarbonZero's pricing data?

  ResourceWise's price assessments follow published methodologies designed to provide transparent, reliable, fair-value benchmarks. Assessment parameters define factors such as commodity specifications, trading locations, timing, volumes, currencies, and the market information considered in determining price.  

• What biofuel markets does Prima CarbonZero cover?

   Prima CarbonZero provides intelligence across major renewable fuel markets, including renewable diesel/HVO, biodiesel, ethanol, and other emerging low-carbon fuels. Coverage spans major markets in North America, Europe, Asia, and other regions.  

• Can I use Prima CarbonZero to benchmark biofuel and feedstock prices?

   Yes. ResourceWise provides independent third-party pricing and benchmarks for renewable fuels and feedstocks. These assessments can help companies evaluate market prices, index supply agreements, inform trading strategies, manage price risk, and make procurement and production decisions. 

• How are ResourceWise biofuel price assessments calculated?

   ResourceWise uses defined methodologies designed to establish reliable fair-value benchmarks for specific commodity grades and trading hubs. Assessment methodologies define factors such as specifications, locations, volumes, currencies, timing, and eligible market information.  

• Can Prima CarbonZero help me determine whether I'm paying a competitive price?

   Prima CarbonZero provides independent market pricing and benchmarks that can be used to compare purchases, contracts, and market offers against prevailing market values. This can provide an external reference point when evaluating procurement or trading decisions.  

• Does Prima CarbonZero provide low-carbon feedstock pricing?

  Yes. Prima CarbonZero covers renewable and low-carbon feedstocks alongside the fuels produced from them, helping users understand relationships between upstream feedstock costs and downstream fuel markets.  

• What feedstocks does Prima CarbonZero cover?

  ResourceWise coverage extends across waste oils, vegetable oils, animal fats, and other renewable feedstocks. Examples within its published methodologies include UCO, distillers corn oil, choice white grease, yellow grease, tallow, POME, animal fats, and other waste-derived materials.

• Can I track used cooking oil (UCO) prices in Prima CarbonZero?

  Yes. ResourceWise assesses UCO across multiple markets and specifications, including North American, European, and Asian pricing points. The platform can help users compare UCO markets and understand how changing feedstock economics affect renewable fuel markets.  

• Can Prima CarbonZero help me understand feedstock competition?

  Yes. Prima CarbonZero combines feedstock pricing with fuel markets, production capacity, plant information, and supply-and-demand intelligence. Alongside expert analyst reports, these datasets can help users evaluate where feedstock demand is developing and where competition for supply may intensify.  

• Does Prima CarbonZero cover sustainable aviation fuel (SAF)?

  ResourceWise's broader biofuels intelligence covers SAF alongside renewable diesel, ethanol, and emerging fuels, connecting developments in these downstream markets with feedstock availability, policy, production capacity, and carbon economics.  

• Does Prima CarbonZero cover marine biofuels?

  Yes. Prima CarbonZero includes bio-bunker benchmarks and intelligence relevant to low-carbon shipping fuels. ResourceWise's partnership with ENGINE, for example, added bio-bunker indexes to the platform alongside analysis of future marine fuels. 

• Does Prima CarbonZero provide RIN pricing and analysis?

  Yes. Prima CarbonZero's coverage provides market data and analysis on Renewable Identification Number (RIN) credits, helping users monitor a critical component of US renewable fuel economics.  

• Are PDF reports still available?

  Prima CarbonZero offers all the same expert commentary that was in the original PDF format. They are now available using the platform’s dynamic updates based on real-time data streams. That means you can get all the same commentary as PDFs with more recent and relevant information—and you can view/print the reports as well.

• Can I export data from Prima CarbonZero?

   Yes. Prima CarbonZero allows users to export information in report-ready formats and to Excel for additional analysis.