Lake Area Corn Processors LLC

Lake Area Corn Processors, LLC owns and manages an ethanol plant that has a nameplate production capacity of 100 million gallons of ethanol per year through its wholly owned subsidiary Dakota Ethanol, L.L.C. The Company’s segments include Production and Ethanol Producing Equity Method Investments. The Production segment includes the manufacture and marketing of fuel-grade ethanol and co-products of the ethanol production process. The Ethanol Producing Equity Method Investments segment consists of the aggregation of the Company's two equity method operating segments of investment in Guardian Hankinson, LLC, and investment in Ring-neck Energy & Feed, LLC. Fuel grade ethanol is its primary product. The Company also sells distillers grains and corn oil, the principal co-products of the ethanol production process. The ethanol plant produces at a rates more than 98 million gallons of ethanol per year.

• 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.