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Top 10 Biofuels Predictions for 2013

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...As the sunset of 2012 gives way to the dawn of 2013, here at the Digest we resist the holiday temptation to look back over the challenges and highlights of the year gone by, and

December 27, 2012 Read Full Article

Evolving Ethanol to Meet Challenges

by Emily Bruns (Ashton Gasette)  In an effort to evolve with the constant changes and challenges within a $50 billion industry, Rochelle’s Illinois River Energy ethanol plant began producing and industrial corn oil on Nov. 27. This corn oil byproduct, which

December 27, 2012 Read Full Article

Gov't to Offer NIS 400m in Loans for Alternative Fuels

by Yuval Azoulai (Globes)  The Office of the Chief Scientist is planning a NIS 1.5 billion program to create a new alternative fuels industry. The Office of the Chief Scientist has a new program of loans for industrial and financial companies to

December 27, 2012 Read Full Article

Energy Cane for Biomass Promising in South Carolina Testing

by Roy Robertson (Southeast Farm Press)  • Steve Kresovich is part of a team of USC researchers looking for crops that can be adapted to less productive and often under-utilized South Carolina soils. • The end goal, Kresovich says, is to

December 27, 2012 Read Full Article

Reborn Qteros Rises Again with New Plan to Develop Technology to Make Ethanol

by Jim Kinney (The Republican/MassLive)   Qteros and the “Q microbe” discovered byUMass researchers and valued for its ability to digest plant waste into ethanol fuel is making a comeback. ...But the money dried up early in 2012. In September, creditors auctioned Qteros'

December 21, 2012 Read Full Article

Can KiOR Soar?

by Robert Rapier  (Biofuels Digest/Energy Trends Insider)  Last month KiOR announced the start of production of biocrude from their Columbus, Mississippi plant. KiOR CEO Fred Cannon stated in an earnings call that when the product shipped it would be “the world’s

December 21, 2012 Read Full Article

Obama Energy Chief Backs Effort to Encourage Renewable Investments

by Zack Coleman (The Hill E2Wire)  The Obama administration lent its support Wednesday to a congressional effort that would open a financing structure for renewable energy. Energy Secretary Steven Chu called on Congress to approve legislation that would let investors utilize

December 21, 2012 Read Full Article

The Old Switcheroo — the “Now” of Cellulosic Biofuels vs “Five Years Away” in Oil & Gas

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  As renewable fuel developers put steel in the ground, oil & gas points to a fossil-based transformation in transportation fuels just “five years away”. Today, it is the oil & gas industry talking in terms of

December 20, 2012 Read Full Article

Reaping a Mainland Fuel Harvest

by Eric Ng (South China Morning Post)  Projects to convert agricultural waste into ethanol are at an early stage on the mainland, but could provide new sources of this clean energy Novozymes, the world's largest industrial enzyme maker, is in discussions

December 19, 2012 Read Full Article

Fundamentally Bullish on Cellulosic Ethanol

by Susanne Retka Schill (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  Cobalt Technologies is the latest company to announce its second generation technology will be developed in Brazil.  The final piece in the n-butanol technology developer’s financing came with a commitment from global agribusiness Bunge. ... BP Biofuels

December 19, 2012 Read Full Article

NIA in Joint Cassava Ethanol Plant Project

(Bangkok Post)  The National Innovation Agency (NIA) joined hands with Japan's New Energy and Industrial Technology Development Organization (NEDO) to support the first pilot plant for ethanol production from cassava pulp in Thailand. ...A feasibility study was conducted, showing Thailand is

December 19, 2012 Read Full Article

CALL FOR PAPERS: 2013 Asia Pacific Clean Energy Summit and Expo and 2013 Islands & Isolated Communities Congress September 9 – 11 Honolulu, Hawaii DEADLINE: March 15 for Panels, May 24 for Proposals

The event is the preeminent meeting place for international leaders and energy experts at the forefront of the clean energy movement. Securing energy independence and developing a clean energy industry that promotes the vitality of our planet are two reasons

December 19, 2012 Read Full Article

Biofuel Company, Emera Setting up Shop on Mill Site

by Nick Moase (The Advance)  The Bowater mill site will soon see activity again, as two businesses take up tenancy. ...Cellufuel will be doing research and development, with plans to create a diesel biofuel demonstration plant with construction starting next Spring.

December 19, 2012 Read Full Article

Contamination! and Other Crises: 12 Signs That Your Favorite Biofuels Venture May Be in Trouble

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Is your favorite biofuels venture in trouble? — or might look in trouble but actually be just fine.  Here are 12 tell-tale signs if you’ve “got trouble, right here in River City.” ...Solazyme went to 500,000

December 19, 2012 Read Full Article

Defense Bill Done: Biofuels Survive

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Unofficial reports indicate that biofuels provisions have survived a House-Senate conference over the Defense bill. According to sources, House and Senate conferees have finished work on their conference report on the National Defense Authorization Act. Sources

December 19, 2012 Read Full Article

Cellulosic Biofuel to Surge in 2013 After First U.S. Plants Open

by Andrew Herndon  (Bloomberg/Renewable Energy World)  Cellulosic biofuel companies will boost production almost 20-fold in 2013 as the first high-volume refineries go into operation, signaling a shift from an experimental fuel into a commercially viable industry. Production of the fuel made

December 18, 2012 Read Full Article

Making Sugars, Not Extracting Them: Proterro’s Technology

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ... But very few are working in solid phase – where essentially instead of working with a liquid vat, microbes are growing on a fabric or film — and the organisms are provided with a

December 18, 2012 Read Full Article

A Sugar Fix: Proterro, Biofuels and Affordable, Renewable Sugars

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Why is making affordable renewable sugars potentially big business? Which intrepid investors have targeted biofuels’ biggest bottleneck? News has been circulating that Proterro raised $3.5 million for a demonstration-scale of their renewable sugars technology, and secured

December 18, 2012 Read Full Article

State Incentives for Alternative-Fuel Projects Linked to Success and Failure

by Jeff Ayres  (Clarion Ledger)  Mississippi alternative-energy development projects that have received more than $400 million in state backing through loans, grants and other incentives in recent years have seen widely varying degrees of success. KiOR, a Texas biofuels company, recently started

December 17, 2012 Read Full Article

Kansas Fed Economist Says Markets, Not Mandates, Drive Ethanol

by Susanne Retka Schill (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  Markets shape ethanol production, Nathan Kauffman, an economist with the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City, argues in the most recent issue of the Main Street Economist. In a seven-page analysis, Kauffman takes a

December 17, 2012 Read Full Article

U.S. Agricultural Research Is Faltering, Report Warns

by Stephanie Strom  (New York Times)  A blue-ribbon panel of scientific and technology advisers to President Obama warns that the nation risks losing its longstanding supremacy in food production because research in agriculture has not kept up with new challenges like climate

December 17, 2012 Read Full Article

Cleantech Conservative: 10 New Realities, Priorities for Biofuels in 2013

by Douglas Faulkner (Biofuels Digest)   ...Throughout his campaign President Obama proclaimed himself an oil and gas supporter even while talking about federal “investments” in green energy. And, while much ink has already been spilled in this publication about this or

December 17, 2012 Read Full Article

Global Biofuel Market Outlook to 2016 - Growing Mainstream Through Government Support

(PRNewswire/Reportlinker.com)  Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue. The report titled "Global Biofuel Market Outlook to 2016 – Going Mainstream Through Government Support" provides a comprehensive analysis of market size of biofuel industry on the

December 14, 2012 Read Full Article

15 Burning Questions (and Answers) for Biofuels in 2013

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Policy, finance, technology, feedstocks, markets, prices, opposition.  Here’s what’s on your mind, as the critical 2013 deployment year for biofuels looms. So here are 15 burning questions as suggested by various Digesterati — divided for convenience

December 14, 2012 Read Full Article

Springboard Biodiesel's BioPro Endorsed by Green Restaurant Ass'n

by Ron Kotrba (Biodiesel Magazine)  Chico, Calif.-based Springboard Biodiesel announced that its trademarked BioPro EX has met the Green Restaurant Association’s rigorous endorsement standards for alternative fuel refueling stations. By using the BioPro EX, restaurants can make biodiesel that meets

December 12, 2012 Read Full Article

Low-Cost Cellulosic Sugars, Ho! EdeniQ to Build demo Plant in Brazil

by Jim Lane (Biobased Digest)  California’s cellulosic gearhead gurus head from the San Joaquin Valley to Sao Paulo, in search of big, aggregated loads of sugarcane bagasse. In California, Edeniq announced that it has begun engineering and construction of a bagasse

December 11, 2012 Read Full Article

Brazil Sugar-Cane Research Agency to Build Demonstration Plant

by Stephan Nielsen (Bloomberg)  Centro de Tecnologia Canavieira, the Brazilian sugar-cane research agency, will build an 80 million- real ($38.5 million) plant to demonstrate a method of producing ethanol from crop residues. The plant, with the capacity to make 3 million

December 11, 2012 Read Full Article

Guyana, UK Company Sign Contract for Bioethanol Oroduction at Albion

by Denis Scott Chabrol (Demera Waves)  The United Kingdom-based Whitefox Technologies, together with its partner Green, have secured a bioethanol contract with the Guyanese Government. Whitefox said it is working together with the Brazilian company, Green, to install the units for

December 05, 2012 Read Full Article

Despite Setbacks, Investor Is Bullish on Clean Technology

by Randall Smith (The New York Times) ...Since then, Mr. Khosla, the founder of Khosla Ventures, has watched much of those paper gains evaporate. As the clean energy industry broadly has taken a hit, shares of the biofuel companies —

December 03, 2012 Read Full Article

Kenyan Biofuel Dream Proves Elusive for Alberta Firm

by Sara Mojtehedzadeh  (Edmonton Journal)  Bedford Biofuels’ plantation is stalled, and along with it the company’s promise to provide jobs and cash for community development ...Though this is an arid and unforgiving area, the land surrounding Garsen should have been green with

December 03, 2012 Read Full Article

SGB's Jatropha Vision: Jet Fuel Grown from Seeds

by Jennifer Alsever (CNN Money)  ...  While most of its rivals raced to commercialize the fuel, San Diego-based SG Biofuels took a different path: It hired plant geneticists. They hunkered down in the laboratory to come up with the best genetic variations

December 03, 2012 Read Full Article

In Race to Develop Aviation Biofuels, Midwest Wants to Win

by Kari Lydersen (Midwest Energy News)  ...Commercial-scale development of aviation biofuels is still in the early stages, and as experts explained at the Airports Going Green conference in Chicago earlier in November, viable aviation biofuel industries would look significantly different in different regions

November 30, 2012 Read Full Article

British Airways Pledges 10-Year Offtake Agreement as GreenSky Project with Solena Gathers Momentum

(GreenAirOnline)  The British Airways and Solena GreenSky London project to build a sustainable jet biofuel facility in East London is gaining momentum, say the two partners. They won’t reveal the location but an exclusive option on a site for the

November 30, 2012 Read Full Article

Biofuels Programme Launched in Scotland

(Biofuels International)  A new Scottish biofuel programme officially launched this month after securing over a million pounds worth of investment. The programme is a partnership between five Scottish universities and research institutions, with the £1.6 million ($2.5 million) funding coming via

November 29, 2012 Read Full Article

Affordable Naval Biofuel: First Comes the Feedstock

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Is the US government right in aiming to commercialize aviation biofuels production – or should it be aimed at ensuring affordable feedstock? Pain at the pump. $5 gasoline in California. $8 gasoline in the EU. We

November 29, 2012 Read Full Article

US Company in Refinery Search

by Peter Hemphill (Grain & Hay WeeklyTimes) An American biofuels company is looking to build a refinery in Australia to produce ethanol from wheat straw and other residues. ...Investors in the biorefineries include Australia's Macquarie Bank and Japanese commodity trader Itochu Corporation. ZeaChem

November 29, 2012 Read Full Article

Sweet Potatoes-to-Ethanol Plant for Barbados

(Stabroek News)  A plant to produce ethanol from sweet potatoes is in the pipeline, according to Dr Leroy McClean, chief executive officer of the Barbados Investment and Development Corporation (BIDC). Without providing details, he said, “I have a Chinese company .

November 29, 2012 Read Full Article

Mighty Danes: BioGasol Raises $19.2M for Advanced Biofuels and Materials

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) ... BioGasol ApS, the renewable energy company announced today that it has raised $19.2M — €5 million in new equity financing — and received a confirmation of €10 million grant allocation from The Energy Technology

November 28, 2012 Read Full Article

The Top 10 Financing Paths for Biofuels, 2012-13

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Dozens of deals – what are the hottest paths to $$$? Who’s forming capital in bioenergy this year, and when, where, why and how? In the old days, the process seemed simple: seed round to fund

November 28, 2012 Read Full Article

Agriculture Under Secretary Announces Support for Producers of Advanced Biofuels

(US Department of Agriculture)  Agriculture Under Secretary for Rural Development Dallas Tonsager today (November 16, 2012) announced payments to 189 companies to support the production and expansion of advanced biofuels. “These payments support the nation’s expanding alternative fuels industry by encouraging

November 28, 2012 Read Full Article

Govt Urged to Reduce Land Size Granted to Biofuel Businesses

(IPPMedia/The Guardian Reporter)  The government has been urged to reduce the maximum land size of each bio-fuel developer from the proposed 20,000 ha to 10,000 ha and give investors conditions which would enable them deliver. Speaking during a two-day workshop which

November 27, 2012 Read Full Article

Solazyme and its Hybrid Vigor

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Solazyme lands monster capacity expansion agreements with ADM and Bunge – what’s the sector’s hottest company up to now? ... The Bunge agreement will expand joint venture-owned oil production capacity at Solazyme Bunge Renewable Oils from

November 27, 2012 Read Full Article

Pilot Facility Launched in Ghana to Transform Human Waste into Renewable Biodiesel Fuel

(EurekAlert!)  To celebrate World Toilet Day on November 19, researchers at Columbia University's Engineering School, working in Ghana with Waste Enterprisers Ltd., the Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology (KNUST), and the Kumasi Metropolitan Assembly, are launching a pilot

November 20, 2012 Read Full Article

The Solyndra Effect, or Why Alcohol-to-Jet Fuel Is a Tough Sell

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...What we keep running into is what Aemetis CEO Eric McAfee once described to me as the immutable “Natural Law of Alternative Commodity Markets”. ...NLACM states that “the value of any intermediate products produced in any

November 19, 2012 Read Full Article

Ensyn: Biofuels’ Big, Fast Cracker, in Pictures

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Ensyn – moving rapidly towards scale as a transport fuel technology after decades in smaller, high-value markets.  What does Ensyn’s signature RTP technology, that’s making such a splash, look like? ...Ensyn has become a signature part

November 19, 2012 Read Full Article

$500 Million and No One to Dance with? Canada and Advanced Biofuels

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Canada’s $500 million NextGen Biofuels Fund, five years after formation, gets close to making its first investments just as Canada’s leaders consider pulling the plug It was the most amazing sovereign commitment to biofuels of its

November 18, 2012 Read Full Article

Illawarra Rescue Package Will Help Fund Biodiesel Plant

(ABC Rural)  The Illawarra, south of Sydney, has received another rescue package from Federal and State Governments to help it rebuild after major job losses in the steel industry. ..."What we're able to do as a result of facilities like this

November 17, 2012 Read Full Article

Renewable Diesel on the March

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  UOP, Eni update on the complete conversion of Eni’s Venice refinery to renewable diesel. Why is renewable diesel getting traction – and where, and when? ...Unlike biodiesel, Green Diesel is a drop-in replacement for traditional diesel.

November 17, 2012 Read Full Article

NASA-Rooted Biofuel Project Aims for Shores of Mobile Bay

by Marc D. Anderson (AL.com)  A company using NASA-licensed technology is looking at a small patch of bayfront property to launch what one day could be a revolutionary wastewater-treating and biofuel-creating endeavor. Since 2009, Algae Systems LLC of Carson City, Nev.,

November 16, 2012 Read Full Article

Effort to Kill Trash-to-Ethanol Contract Fails

by Marc Chase (Northwest Indiana Times)  ...The board voted at the beginning of the year to find Powers Energy in breach of contract for failing to deliver on its promise to secure land and financing to construct a plant in

November 16, 2012 Read Full Article

With ‘Fiscal Cliff’ Looming, Carbon Tax Getting Closer Look

by Steven Mufson  (The Washington Post)  Here’s a riddle: If Congress doesn’t want to raise income tax rates but wants to raise revenue, what can it do? One answer: Pass a carbon tax. A relatively moderate-sized carbon tax could raise $1.25 trillion over the next

November 10, 2012 Read Full Article

Gusher! KiOR Starts Production of US Cellulosic Biofuels at Scale

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  500 ton per day wood biomass to biocrude plant commences oil production – the long wait for cellulosic biofuels at scale is over. ...But the news from Columbus, Mississippi, that cellulosic biocrude production has started up,

November 09, 2012 Read Full Article

Mitsubishi Funding Algae Research in Kuala Lumpur

(Algae Industry Magazine)  Mitsubishi Corp has signed a research collaboration agreement with the Sarawak Biodiversity Council, in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, to explore the state’s diverse algal biodiversity as a potential source of renewable energy. Over the next two years, it

November 08, 2012 Read Full Article

Industry Improves as Indicators Stabilize, Diversification Expands

by Paula Emberland (Ethanol Producer Magazine/Christianson & Associates PLLP)  Multiple revenue streams lessen impact of ethanol prices ...First, and perhaps most importantly, more plants are producing different types of coproducts, and they’re making more money from those coproducts, both in real

November 06, 2012 Read Full Article

Perspectives on 2013: Ethanol Industry Executives Approach 2013 with Optimism and Concern.

by Holly Jessen & Susanne Retka Schill (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  Looking into the future, Jeff Roskam, CEO of the Kansas Alliance for Biorefining and Bioenergy, fears any modification of the renewable fuel standard (RFS). “Period,” he says. “Not only would this

November 06, 2012 Read Full Article

Centre for Process Innovation Helps Make Whisky Fuel

by Kelley Price (Evening Gazette)  A Scottish whisky distillery is about to become the first in the world to turn its waste into advanced biofuel - here on Teesside. Tullibardine, an independent malt whisky producer, is using Centre for Process Innovation’s

November 05, 2012 Read Full Article

Solazyme: The Making Of A Specialty Oil Giant

by Kevin Quon (Seeking Alpha)  When it comes to renewable oils company Solazyme (SZYM), it would be good to check your understanding of biofuels at the door. Solazyme's heterotrophic algae are utilized within a closed fermentation process to make triglyceride oils.

November 05, 2012 Read Full Article

Stoel Rives Publishes "The Law of Biorefineries and Advanced Biofuels"

(Stoel Rives)  Businesses benefit by having informed decision makers. That is why Stoel Rives developed the award-winning Renewable + Law blog in 2007, together with a series of "Law of" guidebooks covering the gamut of renewable energy topics. Our bloggers keep our

November 05, 2012 Read Full Article

Aussie Brothers Make Biofuel Breakthrough

by Nick Perry (The Australian)  A Technology breakthrough by two Australian brothers could offer a solution to the world's insatiable appetite for food and fuel. Phillip and Geoff Bell have developed a new way to produce ethanol from waste products such

November 01, 2012 Read Full Article

Venter: Biofuels 'Dead' without U.S. Aid

by Bradley J. Fikes  (North County Times)  Famed genomics researcher J. Craig Venter, who is working to develop biofuels from photosynthetic algae, acknowledged this week that alternate fuels are “dead” unless the federal government mandates their use with a carbon

November 01, 2012 Read Full Article

“Rocks, Again” for Biofuels: New Capital Structures Needed for New Times?

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Better routes to capital formation may offer routes to a better world. ... Tax credits, loan guarantees, mandates, subsidies, and grants have been popular with project developers. Increasingly less so with Congress and the general public

November 01, 2012 Read Full Article

E2 Report Projects Increased Advanced Biofuel Production

(Biomass Magazine)  A report published by Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2) demonstrates that the biofuel industry is well-positioned to meet increased demand for advanced biofuels, which will be driven by the federal renewable fuel standard (RFS) and California’s low carbon fuel standard

October 31, 2012 Read Full Article

California, No Longer the State Where the Future Happens First

by James L. Stewart (Biofuels Digest/BioEnergy Producers Association)  For the past decade, repressive provisions in statute have discouraged developers of conversion technologies from operating in California. Among its statutory roadblocks, the state has a scientifically inaccurate definition of gasification, which, if

October 31, 2012 Read Full Article

Denmark Sets High Goals for Renewables

by Roger Moore (Ethanol Producer Magazine/Leifmark LLC)  ...If you’re Denmark, and practically surrounded by the North Sea, global warming and the anticipated rise in the ocean level tend to focus the national mind. To thrive economically, as well as survive

October 30, 2012 Read Full Article

Central European Initiative Ministerial Meeting on Science and Technology and Biofuels Conference Pave the Way for Promoting a Bio-based Economy in CEI Region

(Central European Initiative)  Ministers of Science and their representatives from 18 CEI Member States, together with High Officials from the European Commission and from international scientific institutions attended the CEI Ministerial Meeting on Science and Technology in Trieste on 19 September 2012.

October 30, 2012 Read Full Article

A.I.M. Interview: Heliae’s Dan Simon

by David Schwartz (Algae Industry Magazine)  Heliae is the 9th startup for CEO Dan Simon, and the company is finally at his favorite stage. “We are completing our charge through the Valley of Death,” he says. Indeed. In 2012, Heliae

October 30, 2012 Read Full Article

NRC Flies the World's First Civil Jet Powered by 100 Percent Biofuel

(MarketWire/National Research Council of Canada)  Historic Milestone for the Aviation and Sustainable Energy Industries The National Research Council of Canada (NRC) achieved a major milestone for the aviation industry today as it flew the first civil jet powered by 100 percent unblended biofuel.

October 30, 2012 Read Full Article

ZeaChem Completes Construction of Cellulosic Ethanol Biorefinery

(ZeaChem)  ZeaChem Inc., developer of highly-efficient biorefineries, today announced that it has completed construction of its 250,000 gallons per year (GPY) cellulosic ethanol biorefinery in Boardman, Oregon. The project was completed on budget and is expected to begin production of

October 30, 2012 Read Full Article

Will Global Biofuel Investments Continue?

by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com)  Historically, 2009 was a hard year for biofuels. Biofuel spending was down to $5.6 billion from $15.4 billion in 2008. Investments in the industry focused on cellulosic technologies and sugarcane. This according to NRG Expert’s World Biofuels Report. ...The

October 29, 2012 Read Full Article

Google Tests Biofuel Car

(Environmental Leader)  Google has been using Cool Planet Energy Systems’ biofuel blend to run a fleet vehicle at the search giant’s Mountain View, Calif. campus, according to the energy-tech startup. ...During the Google trial, a campus vehicle called GRide ran on

October 29, 2012 Read Full Article

Petrobras, Fisheries Ministry Partner to Study Fish Oil Biodiesel

(Petrobras/ Biodiesel Magazine)  Petrobras Biofuel and the Ministry of Fisheries and Aquaculture signed a memorandum of understanding to expand cooperative programs focused on the exploration and production of biodiesel from residual fish oil. ...The initiative is aligned with the Harvest Plan

October 29, 2012 Read Full Article

Camelina Researchers on Cutting Edge of Biofuel, Nutraceutical, Livestock Possibilities

by Heidi Gaiser (Daily Interlake)  The four partners of Clearwater Biologicals are working to turn a crop popular in the Bronze Age into a 21st-century source of fuel and nutrients — and they are beginning the process here in the

October 29, 2012 Read Full Article

Novozymes Acquires 10% of Beta Renewables for $115M; Companies to Jointly Market, Demonstrate and Guarantee Cellulosic Biofuel Solutions.

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Novozymes becomes preferred enzyme supplier for Beta Renewables’ current and future cellulosic biofuel projects; embedded in Proesa production technology. In Denmark and Italy, Novozymes, the world’s largest producer of industrial enzymes, and Beta Renewables, a global

October 29, 2012 Read Full Article

Firm Offers 'Phased Financing' for Biodiesel Process Facilities

by Ron Kotrba (Biodiesel Magazine)  Nevada-based biodiesel equipment provider International Procurement Tools LLC has announced what it is calling “phased financing,” an approach that allows would-be biodiesel project developers with access to a million dollars to start a small production

October 26, 2012 Read Full Article

New Advanced Fuels Center Dedicated

by Tim Leeds (Havre Daily News)  A standing-room-only crowd filled a newly re-opened building at Montana State University-Northern to hear dignitaries and university representatives talk about the latest addition to its cutting-edge alternative fuels laboratory. ...The center houses the oil presses

October 26, 2012 Read Full Article

The October Surprise: BP Cancels Plans for US Cellulosic Ethanol Plant

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Florida, BP announced it is canceling plans to build a 36 million gallon commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant in Highlands County. The company said that it would refocus its US biofuels strategy on R&D, as

October 26, 2012 Read Full Article

Aviation Biofuel: Technology-Ready, Needs Capex Infusion, RIN Reforms

by Marsha W. Johnston (Renewable Energy World)  By all rights, many believe aviation biofuel producers should be attracting deep-pocketed investors ambitious enough to build the infrastructure necessary to meet a clearly burgeoning industrial-sized demand. At the Aviation Biofuels Development Conference, representatives

October 24, 2012 Read Full Article

Local Energy Company Makes It Easy for Customers to Reduce Their Carbon Footprint

(Bourne's Energy)  Bourne's Energy announces the grand opening of their local biofuel blending facility that produces cleaner and greener fuel for vehicles and home heating. Bourne's Energy is thrilled to announce a new milestone in Vermont's green energy history with the grand opening of

October 24, 2012 Read Full Article

RETECH 2012: Policy and Planes

by Josh Rathod (Advanced Biofuels USA)   RETECH 2012, an international conference on the business, policy, and technology of renewable energy, took place this year in DC at the regal Omni Shoreham hotel in Washington, DC. Under the luxurious chandeliers and

October 24, 2012 Read Full Article

Sundrop Fuels Plant Said to Be on Track in Rapides Parish

by Billy Gunn (TheTownTalk.com)  ...Not quite one year ago, Louisiana Economic Development chief Stephen Moret and local economic development officials announced that Sundrop Fuels would locate its biofuels plant at a site off Interstate 49 north of Alexandria. The company plans

October 24, 2012 Read Full Article

The Big Bagasse Biofuels Boom

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Deployment of next-gen bagasse-to-biofuels technologies could expand ethanol production in Brazil, India by 35 percent without land, water intensification. ...Guidance being given by the projects is that capacities could increase by up to 35 percent at

October 24, 2012 Read Full Article

ZeaChem a Finalist for $4.6M 3-Carbon Platform Grant from California Energy Commission

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...(California Energy) Commission staff have proposed a $4.6 million award to ZeaChem for the development of a pilot plant at its Menlo Park, Calif. research and development (R&D) facility to scale up the company’s C3 (three-carbon

October 23, 2012 Read Full Article

Biofuel Takes Root in Western North Carolina

by W. Stephen Burke (Citizen-Times)  America and North Carolina have a clear imperative to augment imported, carbon-emitting, politically destabilizing and unsteadily priced petroleum-based liquid fuels with increased production of renewable biofuels. How to effectively gain new biofuels in coming years

October 23, 2012 Read Full Article

Green Investment Bank Cleared by European Commission

(BBC News)  The Green Investment Bank being set up by the UK government has been given the green light by the European Commission. It ruled that the plan to lend for low carbon investment projects did not break Europe's state aid

October 23, 2012 Read Full Article

The Stampede of Elephants: Biofuels and Big Balance Sheets

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ... Today, we’ll look at the bigger balance sheets to see who is investing what, and when, with whom, and why. ...We’ve also focused here, for the sake of brevity, on those financing commercial scale projects. So,

October 23, 2012 Read Full Article

Who Is Responsible for Making Biofuels Affordable?

by Dan Parsons (National Defense Magazine)  ... Military leaders, particularly within the Navy, want to find a drop-in alternative fuel that will reduce their dependence on foreign oil, but do not want to pay a premium for it. Industry is poised

October 23, 2012 Read Full Article

Biodico and Navy Sign Renewable Fuel Agreement

(Biodico/PR NewsWire/Herald Online)  Today Biodico announced signing a new agreement with the U.S. Navy for the development and evaluation of advanced biofuels and bioenergy.  The goal is to jointly develop renewable fuel and energy technologies that are appropriate for use

October 19, 2012 Read Full Article

$10M Grant Will Fund Research into Biofuel-Based Economic Development

(Pennsylvania State University)  The Northeast could help lead the way to a renewable-energy-based economy by utilizing marginal and abandoned land to grow energy crops such as perennial grasses and fast-growing woody plants. That's the goal of a new research and education

October 16, 2012 Read Full Article

U.S. Navy Secretary Says Biofuel Technology Has Arrived

by Michael Fabey (Aerospace Daily and Defense Report/Aviation Week)  Despite continued opposition from lawmakers like U.S. Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), the U.S. Navy will continue its efforts to leverage biofuels technology for its ships and aircraft, service Secretary Ray Mabus

October 16, 2012 Read Full Article

On Marginal Land, These Grasses May Be Greener

by  Kristofor Husted (KBIA)  In the parched, rolling hills of western Missouri, you might expect to see a desolate scene after this summer’s drought. But in this field, hip-high native grass sways across the landscape like seaweed in the ocean. Wayne Vassar

October 16, 2012 Read Full Article

Tampa Port Works to Begin Operation of 96-Car Ethanol Unit Train

by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  There are two ethanol-related firsts at the new Tampa Gateway Rail terminal in Florida. The Port of Tampa now has the nation’s first ethanol unit train-to-refined productions pipeline and Florida’s first on-dock unit train

October 16, 2012 Read Full Article

LS9 Scales Up in Chemical Business As Biofuels Industry Re-Tools

by Bernadette Tansey (Xconomy)  The South San Francisco company LS9 recently produced five tons of industrial chemicals from plant sugars at a Florida demonstration facility, a step toward proving that its genetically engineered microbes can manufacture carbon compounds and fuels at a commercial

October 16, 2012 Read Full Article

The Greening of Petronas: Oil Giant Signs with LanzaTech to Turn Waste CO2 into Sustainable Chemicals

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...In Malaysia, LanzaTech and the Malaysian national oil company, Petronas, announced they will work together to accelerate the development and commercialization of technologies to produce sustainable chemicals from carbon dioxide (CO2) and natural gas. ...The good

October 16, 2012 Read Full Article

Iogen Makes a Comeback in Landmark Sugarcane Cellulosic Ethanol Deal with Brazil’s Raizen

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  World’s largest producer of sugarcane ethanol commits investment to cellulosic ethanol development with Iogen. In Brazil, Raízen Group and Iogen Energy announced that Raízen has committed an initial investment to develop a commercial cellulosic ethanol project in Brazil

October 16, 2012 Read Full Article

Lootah Biofuels to Jointly Collaborate with AlgaOil and Plan to Extract Biofuel from Algae

(AMEInfo.com)  Both Lootah Biofuels and AlgaOil Ltd. announced the entry into a new project in which the two companies will merge their expertise together to develop new high oil content raw material for Biofuels such as Algae Oil. ...The agreement framework

October 15, 2012 Read Full Article

The Red-Light District in Biofuels Feedstocks

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)   ...In biofuels, feedstocks come in many shapes, phases, and sizes — but only three colors – red, yellow and green. That’s what our friends in the financial world tell us. Now, sometimes even a red-light

October 15, 2012 Read Full Article

Gretna Pushing Biofuels Project

by John Crane (GoDanRiver.com)  The CEO of a company that wants to build commercial refinery that would convert feedstock hopes to locate at Gretna Industrial Park. The town of Gretna and Ken Moss, CEO of Piedmont BioProducts, will jointly apply for

October 15, 2012 Read Full Article

The Greening of Dow, the Dao of Dow

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...The story goes back some time, at least to the formation of Cargill Dow – now NatureWorks – a joint venture which Dow eventually left to Cargill as Dow’s views on the sector changed with

October 15, 2012 Read Full Article

DOE Considering One-Stop Shop for Biofuels Investors

by Amy R. Remo  (Philippine Daily Inquirer)  The Department of Energy is considering putting up a one-stop shop that will facilitate the entry of local and foreign investors in the country’s biofuels industry. This move is expected to encourage investors to

October 15, 2012 Read Full Article

California Invests $5M in Renewable Diesel Demonstration Facility

by SacPort Biofuels  (Biodiesel Magazine)  Sierra Energy Corp. and SacPort BioFuels have jointly announced that the California Energy Commission has invested $5 million to help construct a commercial waste-to-biofuels demonstration facility at the Port of West Sacramento. This joint effort

October 15, 2012 Read Full Article

Raising Money for the New Biofuels: A Digest Special Report

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...We say that biofuels are “capital-intensive,” mainly to be polite. It’s like saying that Genghis Khan, Alexander the Great or Attila the Hun had “land interests”. ...Put it this way. How much capital would you need to

October 15, 2012 Read Full Article

Soufflet Group Opens Facility to Research Solid State Fermentation

(Food Product Design)  The Soufflet Group opened a technological research facility and laboratory dedicated to the research and applications developed by OSIRIS and the Regional Biotechnology Research Programs to increase the value derived from agricultural resources and agro-industrial byproducts through

October 15, 2012 Read Full Article

The Sherpas: 7 Biofuels Feedstock Developers Clearing Paths to the Summit

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Every great biofuels technology has its own companion feedstock strategy – with unique advantages and technical challenges.  Who’s got what it takes to be a great Sherpa, providing that feedstock or intermediates edge that puts

October 15, 2012 Read Full Article

Which Biofuels Hold the Most Promise for the Future - Interview with Jim Lane

by James Stafford (Oilprice.com)   Following record droughts across the United States the benefits of the ethanol subsidy were once again hotly debated and biofuels in general found themselves generating quite a few unflattering headlines. But as always the mainstream media

October 14, 2012 Read Full Article

Milestones Reached: Cellulosic Ethanol Is Arriving, with Commissioning under Way and More Than 100 MMgy under Construction.

by Susanne Retka Schill (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  The next five years—the often scoffed mantra of cellulosic ethanol developers—is getting whittled down to the next year or two. A milestone was reached this year when Blue Sugars Corp. got the first cellulosic

October 14, 2012 Read Full Article

Going for the Fiber

by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  Quad County Corn Processors is working toward production of both grain-based and cellulosic ethanol from the same feedstock. Travis Brotherson, plant engineer at the 30 MMgy ethanol plant in Galva, Iowa, wasn’t even thinking about

October 14, 2012 Read Full Article

Innovate, Manufacture, Compete: Pew Charitable Trusts Holds Clean Energy Action Plan Workshop

by Joanne Ivancic (Advanced Biofuels USA)  As a member of the PEW Charitable Trust's Clean Energy Business Network, Joanne Ivancic, Advanced Biofuels USA executive director,  participated with innovators, investors, manufacturers and policy experts at the "Innovate, Manufacture, Compete:  A Clean Energy Action Plan" workshops held

October 14, 2012 Read Full Article

Alberta Innovates Funds Biorefining Conversions Network 2.0

(MarketWire)  Hydrocarbon-like fuels and chemicals to come from agricultural and forest biomass With funding from Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions, the Biorefining Conversions Network aims to become a hub for bioeconomy investments and a world class centre of excellence for biorefining and

October 12, 2012 Read Full Article

Jet Fuel Crop Plan in Abu Dhabi Ready for Take-Off

by Caline Malek (The National)  Scientists at the Masdar Institute of Science and Technology hope to acquire 200 hectares of land they need to set up a demonstration farm in Abu Dhabi. "Once we get it, we can start producing aviation biofuels," said

October 08, 2012 Read Full Article

The Hillary Step: 7 Biofuels Contenders, 7 Routes to Scale, Who’s Near the Summit, Who Will Plant the Flag?

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Every biofuels contender has its own route to the top – with unique advantages and technical challenges.  Who is nearing the Summit, what’s their Hillary Step, who’s got Sherpas, who’s got oxygen?  It’s the race

October 08, 2012 Read Full Article

Kansas Energy Projects Fuel Economic Promise

by Tim Carpenter  (Topeka Capital Journal)  Grants of $20.5 million offer twist to ethanol plant, farm machinery A $15.9 million investment of federal economic stimulus cash by Gov. Sam Brownback hangs on an Oakley ethanol plant's vision of generating value from

October 02, 2012 Read Full Article

When Will I Be Loved?: Supporters of the US Renewable Fuel Standard Begin to Rally

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...“Fuels America is built around one core idea: renewable fuel is essential to the U.S. economy, our nation’s energy security, our rural communities and the environment,” said former Congressman Jim Greenwood, President and CEO, Biotechnology

September 28, 2012 Read Full Article

Biofuels Center of North Carolina 2012-2013 Request for Proposals

(Biofuels Center of North Carolina)  To accelerate development of a statewide biofuels industry, the Biofuels Center of North Carolina funds projects and activities supporting its legislatively mandated mission of implementing North Carolina’s Strategic Plan for Biofuels Leadership. The Center works

September 28, 2012 Read Full Article

Biofuel Startups Turn to Cosmetics, Supplements for Profits

by Tia Ghose (California Watch)  Once a promising source of green energy, high-tech biofuel is being eclipsed by skin cream and food products as manufacturers shift to more lucrative products. After Congress enacted a renewable fuel standard in 2005, more than a dozen

September 27, 2012 Read Full Article

Global Investment in New Biorefinery Infrastructure will Total $170 Billion through 2022, Forecasts Pike Research

(Herald Online)  The biorefining sector, which employs a variety of technology platforms to convert biomass feedstocks into a range of high-demand bio-based products including fuels, chemicals, power, food, and renewable oils, currently sits at the bottom of its next innovation

September 27, 2012 Read Full Article

EU Non-Food Biofuels Target Needs New Investment -Shell Unit

(Reuters) * EU shift away from food-based biofuels will need big investment * EU will need millions of tonnes of non-food biofuels to meet targets * Investment incentives currently not enough Large new investment incentives will be needed to promote the development of

September 26, 2012 Read Full Article

Studies Show Energy Beets Can Be Grown in Non-Traditional Sugarbeet Areas

by Sue Roesler  (Minnesota Farm Guide)  Energy beets are growing hardy for the second year in a row in crop fields south of Minot’s NDSU Northern Research Extension Center near Minot, N.D. They will soon be harvested and the tonnage analyzed,

September 26, 2012 Read Full Article

Soros Economic Development Fund and IFU Invest Millions in Food Security and Clean Cooking Venture in Africa

(Soros Economic Development Fund)  Soros Economic Development Fund and IFU Invest Millions in Food Security and Clean Cooking Venture in Africa Funding for CleanStar Mozambique benefits smallholder farmers and the environment, creates jobs, and protects families from indoor air pollution To increase

September 20, 2012 Read Full Article

EPA OK’s 30% Increase in US Biomass-Based Diesel Mandate as Domestic Production Capacity Expands

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  What will bigger targets mean for producers, livestock, obligated refiners, and the diesel-using public? In Washington, the EPA issued its final rule for 2013 establishing 1.28 billion gallons as next year’s biomass-based diesel volume requirement under

September 19, 2012 Read Full Article

Sorghum in Spotlight Due to Drought, Pending EPA Action

by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine)   For years, National Sorghum Producers have advocated for increasing the use of grain sorghum, or milo, as an ethanol feedstock. Lately, the idea seems to be gaining steam. “There’s been increased interest over

September 17, 2012 Read Full Article

Council of Energy Resource Tribes-BioJet-Tartoosh Biofuel/Bioenergy Project Ready for Takeoff

(BioJet)  The Council of Energy Resource Tribes (CERT) today announced the execution of the long-term Development Agreement enabling the 10-15 year major biofuel/bioenergy project between CERT, BioJet, and Tartoosh Environmental. The project, tagged “Thunderbird”, is a multifeedstock, multi-technology set of projects anticipated to

September 13, 2012 Read Full Article

The U.S. Military's Great Green Gamble Spurs Biofuel Startups

by Todd Woody (Forbes Magazine)  ...Funded with $85 million from Bill Gates and other investors – plus $104 million in government cash and loan guarantees – the world’s only commercial outdoor algal biorefinery went online this summer and will eventually expand to

September 12, 2012 Read Full Article

Clean Tech R&D Funding for Small Business: NextGen Biofuels Fund Call for Proposals

(MentorWorks)  Due to a decrease in emerging technologies there is a great barrier to market entry for many Canadian entrepreneurs, especially innovators that develop sustainable technologies. The NextGen Biofuels Fund program incorporates the same fundamental principles as the SD Tech Fund.  SDTC is

September 11, 2012 Read Full Article

Biofuel Company To Test Algae-to-Fuel Pilot Plant at Forsite Development's ReVenture Industrial Park

(CoStar Research)  South Carolina Firm To Test Commercial Viability of Algae-based Biofuel Process at Former Textile Dye-Manufacturing Site Later this month if all goes as planned, Renewed World Energies (RWE), an alternative energy development company based in Georgetown, S.C., will throw

September 11, 2012 Read Full Article

Student Makes Fuel From Algae

by Jennifer Marino Walters (Scholastic News)  A Minnesota teen has discovered a way to power trucks and cars with algae Sixteen-year-old Josh Wolf spends up to 40 hours each week in a portable garage behind his family’s home in Elk River, Minnesota.

September 10, 2012 Read Full Article

Trash-to-Ethanol Saga Marked by Constant Change, Missed Deadlines

by Marc Chase (Northwest Indiana Times)  With new owners possibly on the horizon for the proposed Schneider trash-to-ethanol plant, some Lake County waste officials say it is the perpetuation of a four-year-old game of musical chairs. The proposed purchase of the

September 07, 2012 Read Full Article

BP Biofuels Targets Gulf Coast for Energy Crop Production

by Luke Geiver (Biomass Magazine)  A new research effort by BP Biofuels has reaffirmed the energy giant’s role in the Gulf Coast region’s economic health. Through a three-year project, BP Biofuels will work with Texas AgriLife Research to develop advanced

September 07, 2012 Read Full Article

In Race to Algae Fuel, Sapphire Scores Point for Open Ponds

Martin Lamonica  (MIT Technology Review)  Sapphire Energy has started operation of its demonstration-scale algae farm, a project which perhaps brings more clarity to an industry debate over the best way to grow algae. The San Diego-based company last week said that

September 07, 2012 Read Full Article

California Clean Fuel Standard Poised to Drive Growth in Biofuels Industry

(PR NewsWire)  E2 Report: Biofuel industry well positioned to meet demand under California standard Despite a challenging year, the advanced biofuels industry continues to grow, according to a new report from Environmental Entrepreneurs (E2). Biofuel production capacity has increased from 437 million gallons

September 06, 2012 Read Full Article

Analysis: U.S. Bankers Say, Love or Hate It, Ethanol Here to Stay

by Christine Stebbins  (Reuters) ..."Ethanol demand is the linchpin of the current pricing model that we have," said Michael Swanson, agricultural economist at Wells Fargo, the largest commercial bank lender to U.S. farmers. "It's a completely different question whether it's

September 06, 2012 Read Full Article

Biofuel Development Company Infinite Enzymes Wins Research Grant

by Michael Sheffield (Memphis Business Journal)  Infinite Enzymes LLC has received a $450,000 Small Business Innovation Research Phase II grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to advance its enzyme development technology. This is the second Small Business Innovation Research grant the Jonesboro,

September 06, 2012 Read Full Article

Bill to Eliminate Ethanol Funding Signed

(Hanford Sentinel)  ... AB 523 eliminates all future state funding for the production of ethanol derived from corn after July 2013. Valadao’s office said about $6 million is provided to a very small group of corn ethanol producers. The new

September 05, 2012 Read Full Article

Codexis, Shell Redraw the Advanced Biofuels Map with Global Enzyme Rights Deal

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ... In California, Codexis announced that Shell has granted Codexis a royalty-bearing, non-exclusive license to develop, manufacture, use and sell cellulase enzymes developed under the companies’ Amended and Restated Collaborative Research Agreement. The scope of the

September 05, 2012 Read Full Article

Warnings Ignored in Range Fuels Debacle

by Dan Chapman  (The Atlanta Journal-Constitution)   ... In a blistering critique obtained by The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, (Hosein) Shapouri (a senior economist with the U.S. Department of Agriculture in Washington) labeled the proposed Range Fuels plant “a high risk venture” that

September 05, 2012 Read Full Article

Major Changes in the Algae Production Industry

(National Algae Association/PR Log)  Raceway ponds were never meant to be used for industrial algae production. When the Department of Energy initiated the Aquatic Species Program years ago, there was no other choice. Raceway ponds were relatively inexpensive to build, land

September 04, 2012 Read Full Article

The Top 10 Advanced Biofuels and Biorefining Companies in Asia

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...While the economic growth in China has been drawing virtually all the headlines in recent years, the “Tiger” economies of Southeast and South Asia have been fast-growing for a long time, and with resources including

September 04, 2012 Read Full Article

Fly the Bio Skies: 10 Milestones in the Summer of Aviation biofuels

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)   ...But in many respects, its been a summer about aviation biofuels – starting with the demonstration of the US Navy’s Green Strike Group and continuing to announcements of projects right through the summer. The

August 31, 2012 Read Full Article

South Dakota’s Biofuels and Economic Boom

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  South Dakota has become one of the fastest-growing states in the US, at the same time as it has achieved energy independence through development of its biofuels fleet.  Coincidence, or correlation? We look at the

August 29, 2012 Read Full Article

Sapphire Energy's Commercial Demonstration Algae-to-Energy Facility Now Operational

(PR NewsWire/Sapphire Energy)   Initial Phase of World's First Green Crude Farm Completed On Time and On Budget Sapphire Energy, Inc., one of the world leaders in algae-based green crude oil production, today announced the first phase of its Green Crude Farm,

August 27, 2012 Read Full Article

Missouri Organizes for Energy Independence

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...Like many states (or countries) that have limited oil reserves or reserves that are economically unfeasible to extract at this time – the path to energy independence lies generally in Missouri’s substantial “above-ground oil fields”

August 23, 2012 Read Full Article

Advanced Biofuels USA Finds Clean Energy Victory Bonds (HR 6275) Lacking

by Robert E. Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA)  A bill to establish a US Treasury funding mechanism that would finance “clean energy” projects has been introduced as part of a renewable electrical energy bill (HR 6275) in the US House of

August 17, 2012 Read Full Article

Entrepreneur-Grower Developing a Blueprint to Make Sugarcane a Fuel

(Sunshine State News)  Picture a fuel that doesn't come from the Middle East, costs as much as six times less to produce than corn ethanol and could actuallyhelp the environment. That's ethanol from sugarcane, which grows like weeds in Florida, and it made something

August 17, 2012 Read Full Article

Trash-to-Ethanol Plant Contractors Strike Deal with Developer

(Northwest Indiana Times)  A group of contractors planning to build a proposed trash-to-ethanol plant in Schneider announced Monday it has reached an agreement to purchase assets from developer Powers Energy of America. The group, SMC LLC, signed an agreement with Powers

August 15, 2012 Read Full Article

Global Biofuels Consumption to Reach 135 Billion Gallons by 2018

(XS4Green.com)  GIA (Global Industry Analysts) announces the release of a comprehensive global report on Biofuels (Bioethanol and Biodiesel) markets. The global consumption of Biofuels (Bioethanol and Biodiesel) is projected to reach 135 billion gallons by the year 2018. Biofuels are

August 15, 2012 Read Full Article

Biodiesel on the March; REG Reports Record Revenues for Q2

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...As is sometimes overlooked, the advanced biofuels pool in the US Renewable Fuel Standard is not only a qualifying pool for cellulosic biofuels – which have struggled to come to market in the projected volumes.

August 15, 2012 Read Full Article

Scottish Renewables Investment Tops £2.8bn

by James Murray (Business Green)  Scotland's status as one of the world's leading renewable energy markets was again underlined last week, after new figures revealed the sector has attracted more than £2.8bn of capital investment since the start of 2009. The

August 13, 2012 Read Full Article

Solazyme, Gevo, Amyris Earnings, Outlook: the 5-Minute Version

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  As Solazyme, Gevo and Amyris report on results for Q2, update forward guidance – what does the data reveal about demand, supply of advanced biofuels and co-products?  We digest down analyst reports, company comments into

August 09, 2012 Read Full Article

Is the Renewable Fuels Standard Withering on a Vine?

by Pavel Molchanov (Raymond James & Associates)  In addition to declining U.S. oil demand and surging liquids production from onshore shale plays, there is a third component to our thesis that the nation is moving towards oil independence by 2020. We project

August 08, 2012 Read Full Article

Advanced Biofuels, Chemicals Capacity to Reach 5.89 Billion Gallons by 2017

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Florida, Biofuels Digest is reporting that global advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals capacity will reach 5.89 billion gallons by 2017, up from 5.11 billion gallons by 2016 reported in the November 2011 release, 4.37

July 27, 2012 Read Full Article

Forget First to Market

by Luke Geiver (Biomass Magazine)  Being first on the scene is beneficial in many markets, but advanced biofuels may not be one of them. ...“Being first to market and establishing a brand has significance in end markets where it matters to

July 25, 2012 Read Full Article
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