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March 17, 2009 – 10:42 am | One Comment

Advanced Biofuels are high-energy liquid transportation fuels derived from: low nutrient input/high per acre yield crops; agricultural or forestry waste; or other sustainable biomass feedstocks including algae.  The key word is “sustainable.”
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North Carolina’s Biofuels Accelerator
February 1, 2012 – 10:26 am | No Comment

(Biofuels Center of North Carolina)  The mission of the Biofuels Company Accelerator is to provide a place, intelligence, and connections to grow businesses, ideas, and relationships that contribute to the development of a biofuels industry …

International Biodiesel Markets – Developments in Production and Trade
January 31, 2012 – 3:51 pm | No Comment

(Netzwerk Biotreibstoffe)  The global biodiesel market has shown an exponential growth in production and trade across the past decade. Nowadays, more biodiesel than ever before is sourced from abroad and procurement areas – especially of …

CAAFI Launches Path to Alternative Jet Fuel Readiness
January 26, 2012 – 3:29 pm | No Comment

(CAAFI)  The goal of the Commercial Aviation Alternative Fuels Initiative® (CAAFI®) is to facilitate the development and deployment of alternative jet fuels that offer equivalent levels of safety and performance and compare favorably on cost …

OriginOil Enters Joint Venture to Develop Biorefineries for U.S. Department of Defense Biofuels Programs
December 27, 2011 – 3:04 pm | No Comment

(OriginOil)  JV receives preliminary funding commitment of $4.5 million to carry out bankable feasibility studies
OriginOil, Inc., the developer of a breakthrough technology to extract oil from algae and an emerging leader in the global algae oil …

Carbon War Room & Elsevier to Unlock Renewable Fuel Market for Airlines & Investors
December 5, 2011 – 3:01 pm | No Comment

(Market Watch BusinessWire)  The Carbon War Room, an independent non-profit that harnesses the power of entrepreneurs to unlock gigaton solutions to climate change, and Elsevier, the world’s leading scientific publisher, unveiled today RenewableJetFuels.org, the world’s …

Advanced Biofuels, Chemicals Capacity to Reach 5.11B Gallons by 2015: 207 Projects, New Database
November 16, 2011 – 7:33 am | No Comment

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Biofuels Digest is reporting that global advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals capacity will reach 5.11 billion gallons by 2015, up from 4.37 billion reported in May, and 3.95 billion gallons …

New Collaborative Industrial Photobioreactor Testing Facility Opening January 2012
November 15, 2011 – 5:25 pm | No Comment

(National Algae Association)  Due to the lack of sufficient data on the performance of industrial-scale photobioreactors, fermentation, dewatering/harvesting and extraction equipment, the NAA is announcing a new collaborative testing center starting in The Woodlands, Texas …

Biofuels and Other Bioliquids—Facts and Perspectives
November 11, 2011 – 9:59 am | No Comment

by Igor Dormuth and Elena Schmidt (Biomass Power and Thermal/TÜV SÜD Industrie Service)   New EU sustainability criteria for biofuels and other bioliquids must be complied with and verified by an independent third party at …

Venture Capital Due Diligence in Algae Deals
November 7, 2011 – 5:21 pm | No Comment

by Luca Zullo and Todd Taylor (Biorefining Magazine)  Interest in algae remains very high among venture and strategic investors. Being prepared for dealing with them is critical to your success in getting an investment. After …

Peter Thiel Launches Breakout Labs to Fund Bold Early-Stage Research
November 4, 2011 – 7:18 am | No Comment

by Colleen Taylor (GigaOm)  Peter Thiel, the tech industry magnate known for co-founding PayPal and being an early investor in Facebook, on Tuesday launched a new program called Breakout Labs aimed at funding cutting-edge, early-stage science …

Elsevier Launches Biofuel Research and Discovery Tool, Accelerating BioEnergy Research and Development
July 22, 2011 – 8:06 am | No Comment

(PR NewsWire/Elesvier)  New Tool Enables the Successful Commercialisation of Alternative Energy Technologies
Elsevier, the world-leading provider of scientific, technical and medical information products and services, today announced the launch of Elsevier Biofuel, an online search and discovery …

Soy Chemicals: A Global Strategic Business Report – New Market Report Published
July 19, 2011 – 7:05 am | No Comment

(PR-Inside.com)  The global soy chemicals market is forecast to reach over $13 billion by the year 2017, spurred by the anticipated high demand from bio-diesels market and growing adoption of alternative renewable sources of energy. …

The Jobless Recovery, Biofuels, Eency-Weency Balance Sheets, and You
June 30, 2011 – 12:14 pm | No Comment

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Washington, President Obama launched the Advanced Manufacturing Partnership – ho-hum, you say, and I think I hear you yawning.
…“Invent here, make elsewhere” is a failed industrial policy, according to …

Development Showcase: Champagne-Ardennes, France
May 20, 2011 – 6:24 am | No Comment

by Jim Lane and Ben Lazarus (Biofuels Digest)  …To be an ideal location for bioenergy projects, a site must have an advantaged combination of feedstock, infrastructure for production and distribution. Access to local markets is …

Spring Ethanol Plant Map Shows 14.31 Billion Gallons of Capacity
April 11, 2011 – 1:35 pm | No Comment

by Susanne Retka Schill (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  The Spring 2011 Fuel Ethanol Plant Map is Ethanol Producer Magazine’s twice-yearly look at the industry, being distributed with the May issue, soon to be out. This spring, the …

Whole New World of Corn
March 23, 2011 – 12:50 pm | No Comment

by Cindy Zimmerman (DomesticFuel.com)  Everything you ever wanted to know about corn is contained in the latest edition of the World of Corn from the National Corn Growers Association.
This year’s publication, available online now, highlights the wide …

Renewable Fuel Assocation’s Ethanol Industry Outlook 2011 is Available
February 28, 2011 – 6:03 pm | No Comment

(Renewable Fuel Association)  The 2011 Ethanol Industry Outlook is now available. The Outlook catalogs the important statistics for America’s domestic ethanol industry while providing the most recent, up-to-date graphs, charts and facts about the production …

Biofuels Venture Valuation Tool
February 7, 2011 – 8:47 am | No Comment

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Biofuels Digest released an alpha version (that is to say, released for testing and comment) of its Biofuels Venture Valuation tool.
Using the tool, biofuels venture developers can, by inputting a …

DOE Breaks Down Market Barriers with Online Technology Commercialization Portal
July 6, 2010 – 1:03 pm | No Comment

(US Department of Energy)  The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced today the launch of the Technology Commercialization Portal—an online resource that will serve as a tool for potential investors to identify opportunities to invest in …

The 30 Most Transformative Technologies of 2010
June 8, 2010 – 1:47 pm | No Comment

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  (S)ubscriber voting begins for the 30 Most Transformative Technologies of 2010.   In all, 149 companies were nominated in 19 categories.

Categories are:
(Micro) Algae, cyanobacteria, lemna, and plankton platforms (20)
(Macro) Algae technologies (5)
Biobutanol …

2010-2011: Pivotal Years for Next Generation Biofuels
May 14, 2010 – 1:25 pm | No Comment

(PRNewswire)  The number of next generation biofuels projects reached 200 globally, a report from the Global Biofuels Center (GBC) recently announced, beyond the more than 100 Brazilian bioethanol facilities that will qualify as “Advanced Biofuels” in …

Future of Cellulosic Ethanol Remains Uncertain
May 3, 2010 – 11:22 am | No Comment

by Mark Steil (Minnesota Public Radio)  The idea of a biofuel made from something other than food was one of the stars of both the Bush and Obama administration’s energy programs, but the future of …

Website Aims to Forge Ethanol Partnerships
April 26, 2010 – 10:59 am | No Comment

by Kathrine Schmidt  (dailycomet.com)  A businessman from New Iberia is starting a national website that aims to match renewable-energy investors with local landowners and farmers.
Kevin Caffery believes the state of the ethanol industry, which makes …

X PRIZE Foundation Reveals Expanded Vision for Future; Prize Groups Aim to Solve World’s Most Urgent Problems by Targeting Four Key Areas
April 19, 2010 – 4:02 pm | No Comment

(XPrize Foundation, Marketwire)  …X PRIZE is an educational nonprofit organization whose mission is to create radical breakthroughs, inspiring the formation of new industries, jobs and the revitalization of markets that are currently stalled. Through strategic …

Transitioning from 1st Generation to Advanced Biofuels
March 4, 2010 – 4:42 pm | No Comment

by GTM Research in partnership with Enterprise Florida, Inc.    In recent years, the growth in the U.S. biofuels production and consumption has been driven largely by policy measures. Mandates are requiring increasing amounts of biofuels …

Clean Fuels Clearinghouse Publishes White Paper and Basic Briefings on RFS and RINs
March 1, 2010 – 12:53 pm | No Comment

by Clayton McMartin(Clean Fuels Clearinghouse) To say the RFS2 rule is complex would be a huge understatement. In reality this rule is much more complex than RFS1. Recognizing this, and the fact that thousands of companies …

Garbrook Introduces the 2010 Advanced Biofuels Resource with Business Intelligence Tools
February 17, 2010 – 9:23 am | No Comment

Garbrook introduced the 2010 Advanced Biofuels Resource (ABR), an upgraded version of its online knowledgebase that summarizes scientific, technical, commercial, environmental, and policy information on all generations of biofuels. The enhanced product features the US …