Granite Falls Energy LLC

Granite Falls Energy, LLC is engaged in producing fuel-grade ethanol, distillers’ grains, and crude corn oil near Granite Falls, Minnesota and sells these products, pursuant to marketing agreements, throughout the continental United States and on the international market. Additionally, it has 100% ownership in Heron Lake BioEnergy, LLC (HLBE). HLBE is engaged in producing fuel-grade ethanol, distillers’ grains, and crude corn oil near Heron Lake, Minnesota and sells these products, pursuant to marketing agreements, throughout the continental United States. Additionally, HLBE, through a wholly owned subsidiary, operates a natural gas pipeline that provides natural gas to HLBE’s ethanol production facility and other customers. It sells distillers grains as animal feed for beef and dairy cattle, poultry and hogs. Its corn oil is primarily sold to diesel manufacturers and, to a lesser extent, feed lot and poultry markets. It distributes its products through third party marketers.

• PPA pricing trends ($/MWh) (leading)
• Order book / installed capacity backlog (leading)
• Installation cost curves (LCOE) (trend)
• Inverter / battery $/kWh trajectory (trend)
• Grid-interconnection queue depth (coincident)

• China solar/wind tariffs + IRA domestic-content rules · exposure: very high
• Rare-earth supply (China = ~85% global rare-earth processing) · exposure: high
• Permitting + grid-connection bottlenecks · exposure: high
• Energy security policy shifts · exposure: medium-high

• MW shipped / installed — core volume metric
• EBITDA margin % — 8-15% manufacturers; 20-40% developers
• Order backlog months — 12-24 months healthy
• Capacity factor (utility scale) — wind 35%+, solar 18%+, varies geo
• LCOE trajectory — decreasing = competitive vs grid

Detailed financial analysis, valuation snapshot, multi-period history, and AI narrative are pending — generated when this company is included in the next analysis batch. Profile data above is point-in-time as of 2026-04-30.