McAfee Wins 2023 Global Bioeconomy Leadership Award

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March 13, 2023

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by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) … I don’t know exactly how many companies Eric McAfee has founded, it’s a little like guessing the number of jelly beans in a jar, but I can say a few words about a couple of his most recent ventures, and Aemetis in particular. It is a company that seeks from a platform of proven and conventional technology — specifically, a corn ethanol operation near Modesto, California — to develop and deploy new technology that unlocks new low-cost and abundant feedstocks that materially reduce the carbon intensity of the energy we use in everyday life. The venture is now producing biogas and RNG from dairy waste using anaerobic digestion; on the cusp of achieving robust carbon storage; soon, to be producing sustainable aviation fuel and diesel from low-cost wastes; all while under the scrutiny of the skeptical public markets, all while continuing to operate the original facility. And, the company produces another carbon-advantaged fuel molecule, biodiesel, in India, using advanced technology that unlocks otherwise unusable feedstocks.

That’s innovation, that’s entrepreneurship, that’s persistence, that’s the example needed of a circular bioeconomy unto itself, a symphony of technology that takes individual lines of innovation and harmonizes them until something transformative has appeared: in music, it’s polyphony, in the bioeconomy, it’s polyenergy. It’s not been seen before, and it’s an example that sits like a constellation in the sky by which other entrepreneurs can safely steer their ships to shore.

It is an honor to announce that the 2023 Global Bioeconomy Leadership Award is given to Eric McAfee, founder and CEO of Aemetis. At a ceremony on Friday, March 24th at 9am ET at ABLC 2023, we will have a chance to honor our 2023 laureate in person. READ MORE

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