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Topic: Ethanol
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| Agency: Federal Trade Commission
Date: 13 December 2011 [Non-automotive content removed.] |
The FTC report is the agency's seventh annual report on ethanol market concentration. In it, staff calculated market concentration for the ethanol production industry using different measures. The staff concluded that as of September 2011, there were four more ethanol producers in the United States than at the time of the FTC's 2010 report on U.S. ethanol production. The largest ethanol producer's share of capacity decreased slightly to 11.5 percent of domestic ethanol production capacity – below the 12 percent share in 2010, and remaining below the largest producer's capacity share between 2005 and 2007, which ranged from 26 percent in 2005 to 16 percent in 2007.
The annual reports are required by the Energy Policy Act of 2005. The 2011 report is available on the FTC's website and as a link to this press release. It was submitted to Congress and the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, as required by the Act. The Commission vote to issue the 2011 report, which was prepared by the staff of the Bureaus of Competition and Economics, was 4-0. (FTC File No. P063000; the staff contact is John H. Seesel, Associate General Counsel for Energy, Office of the General Counsel, 202-326-2702.)
The FTC's Bureau of Competition works with the Bureau of Economics to investigate alleged anticompetitive business practices and, when appropriate, recommends that the Commission take law enforcement action. To inform the Bureau about particular business practices, call 202-326-3300, send an e-mail to antitrust@ftc.gov, or write to the Office of Policy and Coordination, Bureau of Competition, Federal Trade Commission, 601 New Jersey Ave., Room 7117, Washington, DC 20580. To learn more about the Bureau of Competition, read Competition Counts. Like the FTC on Facebook and follow us on Twitter.
(FYI 47.2011.wpd)