Fully Automate Your Biodiesel Operation from Feedstock to RINs

Most biodiesel compliance teams are still managing RFS, LCFS and ISCC obligations across disconnected systems, manual spreadsheets and siloed data—leaving them exposed to data challenges, mistakes, credit miscalculations and audit risk. Rimba eliminates that exposure entirely for biofuel producers, fuel offtakers and feedstock aggregators.

Biodiesel producers today face a compliance environment that is more demanding, more data-intensive and less forgiving than ever before. The U.S. federal Renewable Fuel Standard, California Low Carbon Fuel Standard, International Sustainability and Carbon Certification, section 45Z and the EU Renewable Energy Directive (RED III) each requires continuous tracking, precise documentation and audit-ready records across a supply chain that spans dozens of handoffs—from feedstock origin to final renewable identification number (RIN) credit submission. Most operations are still managing this across disconnected systems, manual spreadsheets and siloed data sources. The exposure that creates is real: invalid credits, RIN clawbacks and regulatory penalties that no operation can afford.

Rimba is a data platform to simplify managing sustainable feedstocks and biofuels—connecting every data source across your operation into an automated and traceable workflow. Today, Rimba reduces data workload by up to 80 percent.

The Problem Rimba Solves

Compliance and certification for biofuels is not a documentation problem—it is a data-infrastructure problem. Scale tickets live in one system, bills of lading (BOLs) in another. Feedstock-sustainability certificates in email threads, thousands of BOLs and sustainability declarations each month are received in spreadsheets or PDFs, and each piece of data has to be entered manually into an Excel sheet or enterprise resource planning (ERP) system. When a verifier asks for data, your team spends days reconciling what should have been connected from the start.

Every disconnected handoff between teams internally is a potential gap—and in the RFS and LCFS programs, gaps have caused penalties such as invalid credits, credit clawbacks and regulatory exposure. Rimba closes those gaps by acting as the connective layer across your entire operation, from the first weight ticket at feedstock intake to the final compliance report submitted to governing bodies like ISCC, U.S. EPA or California Air Resources Board.

What Rimba Automates for Biodiesel Operations

Rimba connects to the systems your team already uses (e.g. SAP, NetSuite, Aveva, Ignition, SharePoint, Hobo Link, and other SCADA systems/data historian) and builds automated data workflows on top of them.

At the feedstock level, Rimba extracts data from PDFs, images and even handwritten notes. Users just need to upload such documents into the platform, and it automatically pulls the relevant data. Data that is incorrect or missing would be flagged for the user to review and correct. Next, Rimba takes that data and populates your reporting template/Excel sheet while providing the link to the source document. The result is full traceability with the level of granularity that ISCC, RFS and LCFS auditors require.

One of North America’s largest renewable diesel producers and an active participant in the biofuel markets is using Rimba to bring automation to its feedstock supply-chain data management. With Rimba’s platform, the compliance teams can trace feedstock provenance, quickly validate data, reduce reconciliation time and strengthen their position in ISCC, LCFS and RFS credit markets.

On the regulatory side, Rimba monitors RFS-compliance metrics continuously against EPA requirements, aggregating and validating production and feedstock data across siloed systems, flagging discrepancies and generating audit-ready RIN reports automatically. For ISCC, data is handled through automated mass-balance calculations across multiple feedstock streams to ensure compliance with EU RED III requirements. Rimba also checks incoming sustainability declarations (SD) against the ISCC certificate database to ensure SD validity.

Beyond compliance reporting, Rimba connects directly to SCADA systems to ingest emissions data in real time for air-permit monitoring, flagging exceedances before they become violations. Its report-generation module replicates any existing Excel compliance template—with formulas, formatting and data validation preserved—and populates it continuously with live data ready to download in Excel or CSV for regulatory submission. Across all of this, real-time alerts and daily plant-health monitoring detect data gaps the moment they occur.

Built to Work with What You Already Have

With Rimba, you do not have to replace your existing systems. It integrates with them. Whether your production data lives in Ignition, your enterprise data in SAP or NetSuite, your operational documents in SharePoint or your field data in Hobo Link, Rimba pulls it all into a unified compliance workflow automatically. The result is a single source of truth across your entire biofuel operation, accessible through web-based dashboards, email summaries and downloadable Excel reports.

What Producers Actually Gain

The business case for Rimba is straightforward. Traceability and accounting violations carry significant financial and operational consequences such as invalid RINs, credit clawbacks and potential permit issues that disrupt operations. LCFS credit miscalculations can result in material financial losses. ISCC audit failures put certification, customer trust and market access at risk.

Justin Kennard, the director of development and compliance with Morrow Renewables, says Rimba’s responsiveness, attention to detail and commitment to understanding their business made it incredibly easy to work with from Day One. “They didn’t offer a one-size-fits-all solution,” Kennard says. “Their thoughtful approach ensured the system aligned seamlessly with our workflows and compliance needs. Rimba’s AI-driven tools have improved our operational efficiency, increased our confidence in reporting and analytics, and meaningfully reduced the potential for human error. Rimba has quickly become a critical part of how we manage and trust our data.”

As blending mandates tighten and regulatory scrutiny intensifies, managing biodiesel compliance across multiple feedstock origins, production sites and regulatory frameworks simultaneously demands infrastructure that goes far beyond what spreadsheets and disconnected systems can deliver. The gap between producers with automated compliance infrastructure and those without will only widen. Rimba closes that gap.

For biodiesel producers operating in a market where a single data gap can unwind months of compliance work, Rimba provides the infrastructure to stay ahead—complete feedstock visibility, automated reporting across RFS, LCFS, ISCC and beyond, and an audit trail that is always ready when it matters most.

Author: Timothy Daniel

CEO, Rimba

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timothy@rimba.ai