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Biofuels About to Take Off - Just Not Yet

by John Daly (OiPrice.com)  ...So why, no U.S. production? The answers are both complex and simple. First, new biofuels are up against the well established ethanol lobby. Secondly, given renewables’ battle against the ethanol Goliath, there are yet exist no subsidies, crop insurance

June 02, 2011 Read Full Article

Valero and Waste Management Team Up Again, Investing in the Capacity Scale-Up of a Celebrated Waste-to-Biofuel Technology.

In Canada, Enerkem Inc has closed a $60 million financing round that includes Valero Energy Corp. who joins existing investors Waste Management, Rho Ventures, Braemar Energy Ventures and Cycle Capital, who have each invested in the new equity round. ...“With Valero joining

June 02, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels Plan Needs Nudge from Congress

by Robert F. Dorr  (Air Force Times)  ...Chief of Staff Gen. Norton Schwartz has been the driving force behind the service’s conservation movement, both because it saves the environment and it saves money. And for that he deserves a salute. Schwartz couldn’t

June 01, 2011 Read Full Article

Algae-Based Biofuels Represent a Trillion Dollar Potential Market Opportunity, but Cost Is an Obstacle to Commercialization

(Pike Research)  Among next generation renewable fuel alternatives, algae stands out as one of the most promising and scalable options with the potential to supply key fuel and co-product markets.  Strong demand from aviation and military consumers, technological breakthroughs in

June 01, 2011 Read Full Article

Ceres Files $100M IPO – The Complete Digest Analysis

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...In California, energy crop breeder Ceres has filed for a $100 million IPO on Nasdaq, with Goldman Sachs and Barclays Capital as underwriters. ...From the S-1: “We are an agricultural biotechnology company selling seeds to produce renewable

May 25, 2011 Read Full Article

As Jet Fuel Prices Soar, a Green Option Nears the Runway

by Marianne Lavelle   (National Geographic News)  ...The standards-setting body ASTM International is set to vote this summer on certification of hydrotreated renewable jet (HRJ) fuel. Tests both in the laboratory and in the air (led by a most prodigious jet

May 24, 2011 Read Full Article

World Economic Forum Report Identifies Biofuels as the 'Game Changer' to Achieve Aviation Emissions Targets

(GreenAirOnline)  An aviation sustainability report from the World Economic Forum finds that achieving the industry’s target of halving its carbon emissions by 2050 will be a significant challenge given an 85 per cent CO2 emissions reduction gap. This is despite

May 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Scheub Says $600 Million Committed to Ethanol Production

by Bill Dolan (Northwest Indiana Times)  Lake County Commissioner Gerry Scheub, D-Merrillville, announced Thursday that an out-of-state investment firm is committing $600 million to the construction of trash-to-ethanol production. "The groundbreaking will be sometime after Memorial Day. The festivities will be

May 20, 2011 Read Full Article

The Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference, Day 2: We Need the Money

by Will Dalen Rice  (Earth Science Erratics)   ... The ALBC was more of a business conference than it was a technology conference. Many technologies have been able to prove viability in the laboratory. Step two, proving it can work at

May 20, 2011 Read Full Article

Development Showcase: Champagne-Ardennes, France

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 a plus, incentives help, and

May 20, 2011 Read Full Article

DGs Could End up in Plastics if Biocomposite Facility Is Built

by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  Distillers grains as a component in plastics? You bet, if two Nebraska companies achieve their goals. It will start by building a manufacturing facility, Laurel BioComposite LLC, in Laurel, Neb. Major investors include Kearney Area

May 19, 2011 Read Full Article

Brazil: Attitude before Altitude, Part 3

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...In part 3, we look at 12 companies and compare and contrast the Brazilian and US paths to advanced biofuels. Does Brazil have a “must emulate” model? ...What we found is a stable, straightforward system of

May 19, 2011 Read Full Article

Study Finds 11-Year Gap Between Announced Wood Biofuel Production and Commercial Viability of In-Development Technologies; Cellulosic Ethanol Won't Materially Contribute to EPA Renewable Fuel Targets by 2022

(PR NewsWire/Forisk)  A new study evaluates the viability of the wood-based transportation fuel sector in the United States.  Wood biofuel projects attract strong private and public investment, and advance federal energy policy objectives.  Published by Forisk Consulting and the Schiamberg Group,

May 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Project to Turn Nearly Any Organic Waste into Biofuels

by Melissa O'Neil Perdue (Washington State University)  An innovative idea for making advanced biofuels such as jet fuel, diesel and gasoline from regional resources is moving forward with a grant from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE). “This process will demonstrate the

May 17, 2011 Read Full Article

KiOR Breaks Ground, and Draws Customers, for Columbus Biofuels Plant

by Garthia Elena Burnett (Commercial Dispatch)  FedEx is the latest company to sign an offtake agreement with Kior, a biofuels plant slated to begin production in Columbus in 2012. FedEx plans to use oil produced from biomass, mainly wood chips,

May 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Ag Secretary Touts Agrivida

by Donna Goodison (Boston Herald)  Greater Boston doesn’t usually rate as a Hub of agriculture but yesterday U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was in Medford to praise start-up Agrivida Inc. as an example of how renewable energy research could help

May 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Matrix Genetics Pursues the Algae Fuel Dream in the Lab, Not With Big Steel Tanks, Giant Ponds

by Luke Timmerman  (Xconomy Seattle)  ...McCormick, one of the featured speakers at next week’s Xconomy event on alternative fuels, has led this quiet effort for the past three years inside Seattle-based Targeted Growth. While Targeted Growth grabbed headlines with hybrid camelina

May 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Company Studies Tobacco for Biofuels

by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com)  A start-up company, Tyton BioSciences, is looking for a new outlet for tobacco – biodiesel and ethanol. The company is developing genetically modified tobacco that will, according to their website, “produce both ethanol and biodiesel at yields

May 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Biodiesel 2011: The Real Opportunity

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  An interview with James Garton, president of Mission Biofuels USA subsidiary. We look at the jatropha 1.0 catastrophe, actual biodiesel capacity in the US, palm biodiesel, the RFS, and more. ...The company broke into the US

May 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Second-Generation Biofuels Gain Traction But Growth Challenges Remain

by Ivan Castano  (Renewable Energy World)  Some 5 billion gallons of second-generation biofuels could hit the market in five years, a new research report by consultancy Frost & Sullivan revealed last month. However, analysts say the fledgling sector remains challenged by

May 11, 2011 Read Full Article

Colombia Pursues Sweet Dream of Becoming a Sugar-Cane Ethanol Powerhouse

by Nathanial Gronewold (Greenwire/New York Times)  ...Though 85 percent of Colombia's cane crop is harvested this old-fashioned way, industry leaders say they have no intention of mechanizing the harvest, for fear of mass unemployment in a rural area where people

May 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Verdezyne Closes New Financing Round: BP, DSM, OVP Venture Partners and Monitor Ventures Participate in Round

(Verdezyne/BusinessWire)  Verdezyne, Inc., an industrial biotechnology company developing cost-effective processes for the production of renewable fuels and chemicals, today announced it has closed a new funding round. New investors in this round include BP Alternative Energy Ventures and DSM Venturing B.V.,

May 10, 2011 Read Full Article

Khosla Biofuel IPO Draws Doubters

by Antonio Regalado   (Technology Review)  As yet another biofuels company prepares for a stock offering, some wonder if the company is worthy of going public at all. ...Technology Review asked Khosla whether pre-revenue biofuels companies should be going public. Khosla sent

May 09, 2011 Read Full Article

Sen. Bingaman Eyes Committee Vote on Clean-Energy Agency

by Ben Geman (The Hill/E2Wire)  Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee Chairman Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) is planning a committee vote before Memorial Day on legislation that would create a federal “Clean Energy Deployment Administration” to jump-start the commercialization of green

May 04, 2011 Read Full Article

Next-Generation Biofuels Panel Discussion

(Milken Institute Global Conference)  With oil prices spiking and concern over climate change growing, biofuels hold tremendous appeal. But they must overcome considerable hurdles. Further process and technology refinements are needed to ensure that biofuels make a significant dent in

May 04, 2011 Read Full Article

Aurora Algae’s Demonstration Opens for Business in Algstralia

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Australia, Aurora Algae opened its demonstration facility in Karratha, Western Australia, where the Company’s algae-based biomass is being harvested for products in the nutraceutical, pharmaceutical, aquaculture and renewable energy markets. ...The company has also secured

May 04, 2011 Read Full Article

Cobalt Raises $20M in Series D Round; Parsons & Whittemore Joins

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...The additional capital will enable Cobalt to build out its new 470,000 gallon per year demonstration plant in Alpena, Michigan, which will be the world’s first cellulosic biorefinery for the production of the industrial chemical

May 03, 2011 Read Full Article

So You Want to Be a Biofuels Investing Rock Star?

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...Biofuels investing is not for the faint of heart – even high-flyers like Gevo, up more than 33 percent since its debut earlier this year, have been volatile – and a number of small-cap advanced

April 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference: the Analyst View

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Piper Jaffray’s Mike Cox and Mike Ritzenthaler, and Raymond James’ Pavel Molchanov, publish notes on the progress of advanced biofuels following their meetings and presentations at the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference. Cox/Ritzenthaler: Does the Path to

April 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Lignol Develops Engineering Design Package for Commercial Biorefiner

(Lignol)  Lignol Energy Corporation, a leading technology company in the advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals sector today announced it has completed an engineering design package for a commercial-scale biorefinery that would produce up to 80 million litres of cellulosic ethanol

April 29, 2011 Read Full Article

Global Food Crisis, Biofuels and Land Grabs in Ghana

by Bright Owusu  (Ghana mma)  The time has never been riper for the people of Ghana to speak out about the terrible negligence of consecutive governments who have allowed horrendous land grabs by foreign nationals for the production of questionable

April 29, 2011 Read Full Article

USDA Revises Plan to Boost Biofuel Investment

by Ben Lefebvre  (Dow Jones Newswires/Denver Post)  The U.S. Department of Agriculture is embarking on a revised biorefinery-finance program that it hopes will boost the amount of cellulosic-bio fuel production in the country. The USDA seeks to make the advanced-biofuels industry

April 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Shell Oil President Odum Calls For Biofuel Incentives

by Ryan Tracy (Dow Jones NewsWires/NASDAQ.com)  Shell Oil Co. President Marvin Odum gave a bullish outlook for biofuels Tuesday, saying that during the next 20 years, biofuels will likely be "the most practical solution" for reducing carbon emissions from transportation

April 27, 2011 Read Full Article

Sovereign Focuses on Delivering Ethanol's Message

by Jean Caspers-Simmet  (AgriNews.com)  Dave Sovereign tries to help people see the benefits ethanol brings to the economy. ...It frustrates Sovereign when people bash ethanol. "After 9/11 the president and Congress asked all Americans to do what they could to eliminate our dependence

April 18, 2011 Read Full Article

The Biofuels Technology Square Dance

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...How’s an investor to parse out all these technologies. For many, it’s a case of “you’re making what, from what, using what?” ...Here at the Digest, we think of it as a kind of old fashioned

April 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Fuel and Animal Feed Both Produced from Advanced Biofuel Biomass: The New Biofuel Paradigm

By Robert Kozak (Atlantic Biomass Conversions, Inc.)  Worldwide Importance of Protein Animal Feed When I began working with sugar beet processors on our beet pulp biofuel sugar process, one of their first questions was, “Will there still be pulp available to

April 17, 2011 Read Full Article

Ethanol Critics ‘Shortchanging’ U.S. Farmers, Vilsack Says

by Alan Bjerga (Bloomberg)  Ethanol critics are engaged in a “false debate” over biofuels and should be asking how U.S. farmers can meet energy needs, rather than whether they should, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack said. “We’re trapped in a debate that

April 15, 2011 Read Full Article

BIOeCON Raises 1 Million Euro’s for a Biomass Based Fuel Cell

(BIOeCON)  BIOeCON a leading pioneer in the field of non-edible biomass conversion, has raised an additional 1 million Euro’s from existing shareholders, including a grant from the Dutch Ministry of Economic affairs, to design and build a prototype of a

April 15, 2011 Read Full Article

D1 Oils: Siemens Biodiesel Ferry Trial Fuels 40 pct Share-Price Rally

by Jamie Ashcroft  (Proactive Investors)   Shares in D1 Oils shot up over 40 percent today as it revealed an exciting crude Jatropha oil (CJO) trial with German engineering firm Siemens (ETR:SIE). In the trial Siemens will use D1’s CJO biodiesel

April 13, 2011 Read Full Article

KiOR Files $100M IPO – The Complete Digest Analysis

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Khosla-backed pyrolysis venture heads for the public markets. Is the IPO window still open? Will this one fly? Should it? The Digest looks at the technology, the team, the progress, the economics, the proof, and

April 13, 2011 Read Full Article

BARD and ABS to Develop Algae Facility in Georgia

(Algae Industry Magazine)  ARD Holding Inc. and Algae Bioenergy Solutions LLC (ABS) have announced a Joint Venture to develop an algae production facility in Augusta, Georgia. Projections are for the site to accommodate a ten million gallon—expandable to 100 million

April 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Biotech Deinove Eyes U.S., Brazil Ethanol

(Reuters)  French green biotech firm Deinove, which hopes to use a 4 billion year old bacterium to develop the fuel of the future, is eyeing new projects in the United States and Brazil, its chief executive told Reuters. The company is in

April 12, 2011 Read Full Article

Aviation May Be Biofuels’ Killer App

by Mark Ingebretsen  (Investor Place)  ...While the military may see biofuels as a way of guaranteeing supply in times of crises, commercial aviation likely sees them as a way to control costs. As National Defense Business and Technology, noted recently, “Fuel is

April 12, 2011 Read Full Article

SAIL Capital Creates Louisiana Sustainability Fund

(CityBizListAtlanta)  Today, SAIL Capital Partners, LLC of Irvine, CA and SAILSustainable Partners of Louisiana, LLC (SSP), announced the creation of The Louisiana Sustainability Fund (LSF), a new private capital fund dedicated to building a sustainable economic future in Louisiana by investing in

April 11, 2011 Read Full Article

Gevo: The Owner’s Manual

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...The Gevo GIFT system – three innovations in one First, its magic bug that indeed, produces isobutanol at a far higher rate, yield and concentration than traditional yeasts. Second, an extraction system that gets the

April 11, 2011 Read Full Article

The Class of 2011

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Will these biofuels projects make the expected steps towards commercialization? There was a strong response to yesterday’s Top Story about technologies that were  approaching make-or-break milestones in 2012. But what about 2011, asked some? What

April 08, 2011 Read Full Article

Come On Seven: Investors Weigh Options, as 7 Companies Near Key Biofuels Milestones

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  As seven projects aim for important milestones, investors face big decisions on whether advanced biofuels companies, even after the run-up in share prices, are still undervalued. ...(I)s it time to get in, hold, or lock in

April 08, 2011 Read Full Article

LanzaTech, LCY Partner for Chems, Biofuels Plant Construction

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In New Zealand, LanzaTech is partnering with China’s LCY Chemical Corporation to identify key bio-based chemicals to produce for global fuels and chemicals markets. Mr Lee says LCY plans to investigate alternative bio-C2 to C5

April 07, 2011 Read Full Article

The Band Wagon: Investors, First Gen Biofuels, Oil Companies Join the Advanced Biofuels Parade

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  “Coming out of graduate school at MIT in the late 1990s,” Biofuel Energy CEO Scott Pearce recalls, “everyone was flooding into technology companies, dot coms, and I went back into the boring energy space. I

April 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Top 11 Algae Biofuel and Biochemical Trends From 2011-2020

by Will Thurmond (Renewable Energy World/Emerging Markets Online)  The following article is an excerpt from a technology, investment, and market study titled Algae 2020, Vol 2 (2011 update) from market research firm Emerging Markets Online. The excerpt provides a summary

March 30, 2011 Read Full Article

Brazil’s BNDES Bank Offers $1 Billion to Ethanol R&D

(Forbes)  Brazil’s behemoth development bank, BNDES, offered $1 billion to the Brazilian Innovation Agency to fund research and development into second generation ethanol, the bank said late Tuesday. The money goes to support companies working on turning sugarcane biomass and sugarcane

March 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Playing “Clue” at World Biofuels Markets

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...At World Biofuels Markets 2011 in Rotterdam, the overwhelmingly remarkable impression is the ramp-up in the quality and quantity of strategic investment and off-take partners. Closely followed by the rise of renewable chemicals, and the

March 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Amyris Lands More Production, Distribution Agreements

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...(T)he company (Amyris) entered into a manufacturing agreement with Paraíso Bioenergia S.A., a renewable energy company producing sugar, ethanol and electricity headquartered in São Paulo State, Brazil. Under the agreement, Amyris will construct fermentation and

March 23, 2011 Read Full Article

Brazil and US to Deepen Cooperation on Energy; Aviation Biofuels

(Green Car Congress/FavStocks)  ...Noted President Obama,...Now, even as we focus on oil in the near term, we shouldn’t lose sight of the fact that the only long-term solution to the world’s dependence on fossil fuels is clean energy technology. And

March 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Betting on Green

(The Economist)  Vinod Khosla thinks most venture capitalists are being too cautious with their green investments. But is his own approach too risky? “ENVIRONMENTALISTS are fiddling while Rome burns,” says Vinod Khosla, founder of Khosla Ventures, a Silicon Valley venture-capital firm.

March 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels at the Crossroads

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...Good news: Advances in processing technology In the past year, we’ve seen costs coming down across the line. Last spring, new cellulosic ethanol enzyme collections appeared from the likes of Novozymes and Genencor, with the

March 21, 2011 Read Full Article

Google Ventures Backs CoolPlanetBiofuels

(peHUB)  CoolPlanetBiofuels Gets Series B Funding from Google Ventures Imagine a world where fuel doesn’t have to be pumped, dug out or extracted from the ground, and can be locally sourced. CoolPlanetBiofuels, located in Camarillo, Calif., is developing an innovative solution

March 18, 2011 Read Full Article

Action Required Now if Alternative Aviation Fuels Are to Help Meet Emissions Targets, Concludes Major European Study

(GreenAirOnline)  The transfer from fossil fuels to biofuels is a must if the air transport industry is to survive beyond the middle of century, was the stark message from Dirk van Vreckem of the European Commission’s mobility and transport directorate

March 16, 2011 Read Full Article

Solazyme Files $100M IPO

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...(C)an the company make oil fast enough to meet the demand and capture all the opportunities? ...“Our proprietary technology transforms a range of low-cost plant-based sugars into high-value oils. Our renewable products can replace or

March 15, 2011 Read Full Article

National Security Interests Require Tax Incentives for Biofuels and Advanced Biofuels

by Robert E. Kozak (Advanced Biofuels USA)  With the oil industry, a 150-year old mature enterprise, still receiving at least 2.5 times the subsidies of the renewable fuel industry ($72 billion 2002-2008, Environmental Law Institute 2009 study), it is disingenuous

March 14, 2011 Read Full Article

“Aviation Industry Needs to and Can Be First to Transition to Alternative Fuels”: Avalon 2011

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Australia, CAAFI executive director Rich Altman and Dr. Susan Pond of the US Studies Center at the University of Sydney, ... provided an overview of the Alternative Aviation Fuels Forum at the Australian International

March 14, 2011 Read Full Article

Novogy Gets $750K, Targets Waste Paper Biofuel

by Galen Moore  (Boston Business Journal)  Stealthy cleantech startup Novogy Inc. of Cambridge, Mass. has raised $750,000 more from venture backers General Catalyst Partners, according to a regulatory filing posted yesterday - and made comments suggesting the company is working on cellulosic biofuels,

March 02, 2011 Read Full Article

Algstralia: the Land of Gold from Green

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...Solazyme teaming up with Qantas for a renewable jet fuel project. A Dunaliella salina plant at Hutt Lagoon in Western Australia, co-developed by Murdoch University. The South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI), which has

March 02, 2011 Read Full Article

The Brew Barons: Masters of Advanced Fermentation, Driving the Redefinition of Biofuels: Pt 1

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...Is there enough energy, food, fiber and feed for all? Advances in industrial fermentation – a/k/a an incredulous “you’re making what? from what? using what? – will be the key to answering that question. The stars of this drama

March 01, 2011 Read Full Article

First of Kind, Financing Advanced Bioenergy Pt 3: Dealing with Deal Breakers

by Tim Sklar (Biofuels Digest)  ...In Part 3 titled “Quantifying Risk Using Robust Financial Models”, insights are presented as to the how financial modeling can be used in quantifying risk and identifying “Deal Breakers”. In the sub-section titled “The Anatomy

February 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Due Diligence: How to Evaluate a Renewable Energy Technology

by Robert Rapier (R Squared/Consumer Energy Report)  ...When I am asked to comment on a press release, I try to be cautious with my opinions until I have peeled the onion a bit. There are technologies with real potential, and

February 25, 2011 Read Full Article

DuPont Exec: Company to Become Renewables 'Powerhouse' by 2015

by Kris Bevill (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  DuPont Applied BioSciences President Craig Binetti told attendees of a recent clean technology conference that DuPont expects the biofuels industry worldwide to grow by $25 billion in the next five years and it plans

February 25, 2011 Read Full Article

First of Kind: Financing Advanced Biorefineries, Part II

by Tim Sklar (Biofuels Digest)  In Part I of this three part article titled“On Identifying Risks”, discussions were included that focused upon the high risk nature of advanced bio-refinery  projects, why financing is hard to obtain what can be done to improve

February 25, 2011 Read Full Article

“First of Kind” – the Financing of Advanced Bio-Refineries, Part I

by Tim Sklar (Biofuels Digest)  ...The purpose of this three-part article is to provide project sponsors and developers of advanced bio-refinery projects with information and guidance in order to improve their prospects for obtaining project financing. It is believed that

February 24, 2011 Read Full Article

One Dozen Algal Biofuels Companies, Three Strategies, Will Reach Commercial Scale

by Will Thurmond (Emerging Markets Online/Biofuels Digest)  ...Digest columnist Will Thurmond released Algae 2020, Vol. 2  highlighting why some algae companies will be winners and some will be losers bringing their product from pilot to commercial scale from 2011-2020. ...The study

February 23, 2011 Read Full Article

ROI, Not IOU: Why Federal Investments in Energy Technologies Will Grow Our Economy

by Mary Rosenthal (Algal Biomass Organization/Biofuels Digest)  ...(T)argeted investments in clean energy technologies like advanced biofuels, including those derived from algae, will grow our country’s economy, foster the creation of new industries, create tens of thousands of jobs in the

February 23, 2011 Read Full Article

Frustration, under the Optimism and Hoopla of the National Biodiesel Conference

by Peter Brown (Biofuels Digest)  ...Walking the floor at the NBB last week, speaking with exhibitors, buyers and sellers, and the broad Biodiesel community in general, one topic was raised time and again: the parlous state of project financing. While the

February 22, 2011 Read Full Article

UK's Carbon Trust Funding Cut by 40%

by Damian Carrington  (The Guardian)  Cuts to the government's low-carbon agency will cancel grants to biofuel projects and cause dozens of redundancies The government's leading low-carbon agency has had its funding cut by 40%, causing the cancellation of grants to a major

February 22, 2011 Read Full Article

The Money Identity, the Bond Supremacy, the Washington Ultimatum: Biofuels and Loan Guarantees

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...Essentially, despite rising banking sector profits and good results from stress tests, the bank financing market has not returned for biofuels – the financing source for whom the USDA loan guarantee was developed in the

February 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Municipal Solid Waste to Biofuels Summit: Conference Report

by Bill Brandon (Advanced Biofuels USA)  On February 10 & 11, about 120 participants gathered in chilly Chicago for the first Municipal Solid Waste to Biofuels Summit presented by the British firm, Eye for Energy.  The conference drew participants from

February 21, 2011 Read Full Article

The Truth about 2011

by Joelle Brink (Biofuels Digest Asia)  ...“If weather blesses the world with bountiful crops in 2011,” writes Economic Times commodities editor Nidhi Nath Srinivas, “and that’s a giant if, they will first replenish exhausted stocks in the trading pipelines. Globally,

February 21, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels Venture Valuation Tool

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 few keystrokes, calculate a value

February 07, 2011 Read Full Article

Vinod Khosla on Biofuel Feedstocks

by Vinod Khosla  (GreenTechMedia)  Imagination is in shortest supply when it comes to agronomic econometrics that extrapolate the past instead of inventing a new future. Part II:  Feedstock. Feedstock cost, environmental impact and even its politics are critical variables. With each

February 06, 2011 Read Full Article

BioJet Receives $1.2 Billion Funding Facility

(BioJet International Ltd.)  BioJet International Ltd.  announced that it has received a US $1.2 Billion funding facility from Cayman based Equity Partners Fund SPC. The funding structure is a 3 year facility, further terms of the funding were not disclosed. BioJet

February 04, 2011 Read Full Article

Resistance is Futile: Codexis and the Chase for Low-Cost Cellulosic Sugars

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...Codexis yesterday announced a stunning 29% increase in revenue, ...What’s driving the numbers in Redwood City?  ”We achieved our technical milestones with Shell, we made our first shipments of two important enzymes to Merck and

February 04, 2011 Read Full Article

“Stay Midwest, Young Biofuels Entrepreneur”: a Counterpoint

by Todd Taylor with Christina Connelly, Ralph Groschen, Mark Lindquist, Gregg Mast, Tim Welle and Doug Cameron (Biofuels Digest/Minnesota)  ...Venture capitalists in California support and encourage these and many other companies and deserve ample credit for the Cambrian-like explosion of new

January 31, 2011 Read Full Article

Shell Exits Algae as It Commences “Year of Choices”

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...Last week [after previously exiting their investment in Choren, a Fischer-Tropsch technology based in Germany]  Shell announced that it will will exit its shareholding in Cellana, a joint venture between Shell and HR Biopetroleum. Today,

January 31, 2011 Read Full Article

Go West, Young Biofuels Entrepreneur

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)   ...California remains the heartland of technological innovation and there is no place on earth where ideas go farther, faster, and find more support from academia, the science establishment, and venture capitalists. (Let us not mix

January 28, 2011 Read Full Article

New Biofuel Development Guidelines Unveiled in Dar

by Michael Haonga (IPP Media/The Guardian)  Tanzania has reaffirmed its commitment to sustain a multi-faceted strategy for harnessing power from various sources, including biofuel, to cover any shortfall. The assurance was made in Dar es Salaam on Wednesday by Minister for

January 28, 2011 Read Full Article

The Big Build-Out: Paying for Biofuels at Scale

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  The USDA tells us that more than 500 biorefineries will be need to be built between now and 2022 in the United States to meet the added requirements for advanced biofuels. With those refineries costing

January 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Why Indiabulls Sec is Betting on Praj Inds?

(Sugar Industry)   Praj Industries, a small cap company provides turnkey plants and equipments for fermentation and distillation systems used in bio fuels processing, primarily which are ethanol related. Sabyasachi Ganguly, Analyst, Indiabulls Securities and author of a report on how

January 28, 2011 Read Full Article

Vinod Khosla on the Technology Pathway to Biofuels

by Vinod Khosla (Green Tech Media)  Part 1: Production technologies: where are we? The financial crisis of 2008 set back a number of projects and slowed actual construction of pilot and demo plants like it did in all industries, be

January 24, 2011 Read Full Article

A.I.M. Interview: Sapphire Energy’s CEO Dr. Jason Pyle

by David Schwartz   (Algae Industry Magazine)   Dr. Jason Pyle, the high profile CEO at the even more high profile “green crude” developer, Sapphire Energy, holds a Ph.D. in Molecular and Cellular Physiology, as well as an M.D., from

January 24, 2011 Read Full Article

Biofuels: Earliest Investors Stand to Profit Most

by Andy Obermueller (Seeking Alpha/Street Authority)   ...As prices at the pump inch higher, the United States will again begin to look seriously at alternative fuels. For some, this will mean electric vehicles, but for most, the question will be:

January 22, 2011 Read Full Article

Coskata Supported Biorefinery Selected To Receive $250 Million Loan Guarantee From USDA

(Coskata)  Guarantee will support a commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol facility in Alabama Coskata Inc., a developer of technology for the production of renewable fuels and chemicals, was notified by the USDA of their intent to provide a $250 million loan guarantee in

January 20, 2011 Read Full Article

What Matters in Biofuels?

by Vinod Khosla (GreenTechMedia)  Given the likely continued dominance of the internal combustion engine, cellulosic and sugar-derived fuels offer one of the lowest risk advances to quickly and affordably achieve low-carbon transportation. Furthermore, substituting higher value bio-chemicals for petro-chemicals, will

January 20, 2011 Read Full Article

Climate Capitalism and Biofuels Ready to Break Out in 2011

by Boyd Cohen  (Triple Pundit)   ...However, over the past several years, we have seen significant advances in the development of biofuels in favor of more sustainable practices. And given the growing demand for biodiesel, ethanol-blended gasoline and other biofuels,

January 18, 2011 Read Full Article

The Economics of Biofuels

(Pacific Rim BioEnergy)  Note: This is an update from an earlier post. The earlier post outlined the concepts but did not have any specific details. This post utilizes current figures and displays the economic principals based on those current figures. The

January 13, 2011 Read Full Article

Valero Invests in Mascoma, Signs Cellulosic Ethanol Offtake Agreement; Inks LOI for up to $50M in Equity

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In New Hampshire, Mascoma announced that Valero Energy  has joined as an investor in the company. Further, Mascoma, Valero, and Mascoma’s operating subsidiary, Frontier Renewable Resources, (jointly owned with J.M. Longyear) have signed a non-binding letter

January 13, 2011 Read Full Article

Top 11 Algae Market Trends For 2011

by Will Thurmond (Biofuels Digest/ Emerging Markets Online)  1 Emerging Markets Growth US and EU-based algae producers and licensors of technology are increasingly looking to the Emerging Markets in Latin America, Asia, Africa and the Middle East ... 2 Renewable Oils

January 13, 2011 Read Full Article

The Elusive Green Economy

by Joshua Green (The Atlantic)  It feels like 1977 all over again: economy in the doldrums, crisis in the Middle East, and a charismatic new Democrat in the White House preaching the gospel of clean energy. Can Obama succeed where

January 13, 2011 Read Full Article

Much-Touted Cellulosic Ethanol Is Late in Making Mandated Appearance

by Dina Fine Maron (ClimateWire/New York Times)  ...U.S. EPA figures indicate that in the second half of 2010, not a drop of cellulosic ethanol -- a much-touted fuel that taps the sugars from farm wastes and other non-food sources of

January 12, 2011 Read Full Article

The New Economics of Next-Gen Gasification: ClearFuels Technology

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...(S)team reformation, a process by which gasified biomass is converted into a useful balance of hydrogen and carbon monoxide ... itself has struggled with high costs associated with the high temperatures at which the system operates.

January 10, 2011 Read Full Article

The Big Price Build-Up: Are You Ready?

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  The US economy is just now showing signs of revival, and already we are seeing signs of runaway oil and grain prices that may bring unwanted inflation and dangerous instability hardly before the recovery has

January 07, 2011 Read Full Article

Ten Asian Trends to watch in 2011

by Joelle Brink (Biofuels Digest Asia)  ...#1 It’s a breakthrough year for Asian biofuels science and technology. Many scientific and technological developments that simmered away in Asian labs and pilot plants in 2010 are set to burst on the scene

January 06, 2011 Read Full Article

Tennessee Switchgrass Initiative Looking for Investors

(Nashville Public Radio)  The state’s switchgrass initiative is looking for new investors. The program aims to turn crops of the tall perennial grass into ethanol to fuel cars. Now it’s using a new East Tennessee biorefinery to demonstrate the technology, in

January 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Quantum Leap for the Q Microbe: Qteros closes $22 Million in New Financing; Global Partnership with Praj

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ... Qteros and Praj will collaborate on a highly focused, multi-year development program with the objective of rapidly developing and commercializing Process Design Packages (PDPs) that enable cellulosic ethanol production using Qteros’ Q Microbe-enabled CBP platform

January 05, 2011 Read Full Article

Top 10 Biofuels Predictions for 2011

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)   ...For our 2010 batch of predictions, we give ourselves 6 marks out of 10. We gave ourselves 1 full mark for predicting the spread of Low Carbon Fuel Standard activity, the boom in renewable chemicals, a

December 31, 2010 Read Full Article

2010 Year in Review of Biofuels

by Katie Fehrenbacher  (New York Times/GigaOM)  Biofuels took a step away from the limelight in 2010, replaced by the buzz surrounding electric vehicles. But there were still a variety of policy decisions, and economic milestones that made the sector interesting

December 30, 2010 Read Full Article

Investors with over 3 bln birr Capital Developing Biofuel

(Walta Informatin Center)  The (Ethiopian) Ministry of Water and Energy said that 18 investors and enterprises with over 3 billion birr combined capital have been engaged in biofuel development.   Ministry Public Relations and Communications Directorate Director, Bizuneh Tolcha, told WIC today

December 29, 2010 Read Full Article

Florida Algae-preneurs - Making Fuel from Algae

by Cynthia Barnett (Florida Trend)   Some Florida businesses are squeezing a trickle of fuel from algae, claiming they can help power the world. But right now, a few expensive drops in the bucket are all they have to show. On 1,000

December 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Future Shock and the War over Biofuels

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...The technologies are, in many cases, ready to scale. Coskata CEO Bill Roe declared a year ago now that “Coskata is open for business, ready to scale,” but the financiers we have heard about are asking

December 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Researcher Has New Energy Solution

by Robert Behre  (The Sun News)  As Janice Ryan-Bohac looks on, Jonathan Edwards steers straight over a long row of dying vines while his tractor's rear chain digger unearths sweet potatoes as big as bowling balls. These are not meant for anyone's

December 27, 2010 Read Full Article

Biofuels Executives Increasingly Bullish for Industry Growth in 2011; Loan Guarantees, Renewable Diesel Gain Popularity in Business Outlook Survey

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Biofuels Digest reports that 80 percent of bioenergy executives are more optimistic both about their organization’s prospects for growth  and industry growth, than 12 months ago, and that confidence about industry growth prospects has jumped 11

December 27, 2010 Read Full Article

Biomass May Hold Partial Solution to Global Energy Needs

by Cary Blake (Western Farm Press)   A growing U.S. agricultural biomass industry can help meet the catapulting energy and fuel demands of a global population that the United Nations predicts could reach 9 billion by 2050.  “We need to envision and implement

December 23, 2010 Read Full Article

Closer than Thought

by Holly Jessen (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  Cellulosic ethanol costs rapidly decline, barriers are surmountable The race to commercial viability for cellulosic ethanol may be coming to a close, according to a Boston Consulting Group report. Alternative energy technologies are poised to

December 22, 2010 Read Full Article

The Signs: Good News for the Aces of Bio-Based May Spell Trouble for the Renewable Fuel Standard

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ... The USDA’s Sarah Biddleman speaks in terms of “standing up a biofuels industry” like a pop-up children’s book, in that all the pieces have to rise up, in the right way, all at once. ... Is the

December 22, 2010 Read Full Article

POET Cellulosic Ethanol Efforts Could Have Nearly $38 Billion Impact on Iowa

(POET)  New analysis outlines jobs, economic output of Project LIBERTY work POET's Project LIBERTY will generate as much as $37.8 billion in economic activity over 20 years and could employ more than 2,800 people, an independent analysis claims. A report done by Impact

December 21, 2010 Read Full Article

Legislation Could Ensure National Security by Encouraging Development of Domestic Advanced Biofuels

(Biotechnology Industry Organization/MarketWire)  A newly introduced bill will authorize the Department of Defense (DOD) to continue its leading role in helping to commercialize next generation biofuels. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) today thanked Rep. Jay Inslee (D-Wash.) for introducing the “Domestic

December 21, 2010 Read Full Article

The Charge of the Capital Light Brigade

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...But a new generation of companies has come along with new ideas about how to develop scale in a world of empty wallets. You might have heard of them as Amyris, Solazyme, LS9, Gevo, Joule

December 20, 2010 Read Full Article

Beyond the Valley of Death, the Sunny Lands of Tractionville

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...ZeaChem CEO Jim Imbler and Elevance’s Andy Shafer gave updates on their progress towards commercialization. Elevance, of course, has been at it a while longer, and is generally exclusively focused on chemicals, while ZeaChem has some

December 17, 2010 Read Full Article

Drop-In Biofuel Developer Dorsan Joins ATI-Clean Energy Incubator

(University of Texas at Austin)  The Austin Technology Incubator (ATI), a not-for-profit unit of The University of Texas at Austin, announced today that Dorsan Biofuels, Inc., joined as a member company of the ATI-Clean Energy Incubator. Dorsan uses proprietary technology to create

December 17, 2010 Read Full Article

Spain: Citrotecno to Produce First Litre of Ethanol from Citrus Waste

(FreshPlaza.com)  Two years ago Citrotecno took its first steps with the help of a group of businessmen linked to the agriculture and livestock sector in Valencia (Spain). The main objective of the company was to use citrus waste to produce

December 14, 2010 Read Full Article

Long Shots: Why Throwing Money at Today's Clean-Energy Technologies Could Keep Us from Discovering Tomorrow's.

by Vinod Khosla (Foreign Policy)  ...A mid-2009 report by the reinsurance giant Swiss Re found that climate change could shave off anywhere from 1 to 12 percent of GDP in many countries thanks to shifting climate zones, floods, droughts, and

December 13, 2010 Read Full Article

New USDA Loan Guarantees, $50 Biofuels, Asia, Syngas among New Biofuels Trends, Gossip at Pacific Rim Summit

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  In Honolulu, much of the leadership of the advanced biofuels and renewables chemicals industries have gathered this week at BIO’s Pacific Rim Summit.  ...(W)hat are the key trends? Here are 11 that the Digest spotted. 1.

December 13, 2010 Read Full Article

Special Feature: A Conversation with LS9’s New CEO, Ed Dineen

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Ed Dineen is taking over the reigns at LS9 from Bill Haywood, who led the company from 2008, and from a #25 ranking to #4 in this year’s 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy. Salutes to Bill,

December 09, 2010 Read Full Article

BP Biofuels CEO Presents Sugar-Based Vision

by Kris Bevill (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  Growing biofuels mandates will require 220 “world-scale” cellulosic biofuels plants to be operational in the U.S. by 2020, according to Phil New, CEO of BP Biofuels. The head of the oil giant’s biofuels division

December 06, 2010 Read Full Article

The Lands of Sun and Rain: Biofuels Turns to Brazil for Sugar, Markets, Models

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...High-tech companies such as Amyris, Solazyme, LS9, KL Energy, and many others have been moving aggressively to establish partnerships that will allow them to access Brazil’s low-cost, at-scale sugars. Are the lands of sun and rain

December 06, 2010 Read Full Article

Cello Energy Finally Out of EPA ’11 Projection After Bankruptcy

by Katie Fehrenbacher (GigaOM)   Cello Energy, the beleaguered, infamous biofuel company that was hit with fraud allegations, has finally dropped off of the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) list of potential cellulosic ethanol suppliers for 2011. ...What’s the reason? Well, first off,

December 01, 2010 Read Full Article

The Rocky Road: What Can Biofuels Learn about Paths to Commercialization from Standard Oil?

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...Yet the farm sector has become, in the wake of ethanol, a rare shining star in the sputtering US economy. Cleantech investors are pouring funds into bio-based investments that are getting shatteringly close to price

December 01, 2010 Read Full Article

GRE Pushing ‘Green’ Venture Capital Fund

by Matthew Daneman (ROC Now)  From fuel cell research and development in Honeoye Falls to the world’s first sustainability doctoral program at Rochester Institute of Technology, the region has a slew of assets that could make it a player in the

November 23, 2010 Read Full Article

Algae Fuel Inches Toward Price Parity with Oil

by Stacy Feldman ( SolveClimate/Reuters)  With over 100 start-ups hard at work, industry predicts it can deliver success in under a decade if granted production tax credits ...The head of the 170-member Algal Biomass Organization (ABO), Mary Rosenthal, predicts the fledgling fuel

November 23, 2010 Read Full Article

GE Unit Invests in Biofuels Producer

by Candace Lombardi  (Green Tech)  GE subsidiary GE Energy Financial Services and North Bridge Venture Partners will invest $8 million in a company developing a biofuel production process coupled with the production of biochar. Cool Planet Biofuels converts cellulosic byproducts like plant

November 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Toward a Clean Energy Deployment Plan For Jobs, Security, and Broad-Based Economic Growth in 2011

by Bracken Hendricks, Lisbeth Kaufman, Ken Berlin, Monty Humble, Reed Hundt, Alex Kragie, Gerry Waldron  (Center for American Progress) ... Congress must move immediately to reduce the cost of clean energy and remove infrastructure and regulatory barriers to its deployment so that

November 22, 2010 Read Full Article

Biofuels Industry CEOs Predict Parity with Oil in 12-36 Months, for Leading-Edge Companies

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...In contrast to the “five years away” and subsidy-driven discussions that framed advanced biofuels conversations just two years ago, CEOs are widely reporting that they expect their companies to reach commercial scale within 12-36 months,

November 21, 2010 Read Full Article

A.I.M. Interview: Gregory L. Bafalis, CEO, Aurora Algae

by David Schwartz (Algae Industry Magazine)  Since June of this year, Greg Bafalis has been CEO of Aurora Algae, formerly Aurora Biofuels, overseeing the Company’s strategy, operations, and high-level relationships. ...Aurora was founded in 2006 by three gentlemen from U.C. Berkeley.

November 21, 2010 Read Full Article

Thailand to Shift Focus on Jatropha for Biofuel

(Financial Express)  Shifting focus to its biodiesel programme, Thailand is planning to open large scale jatropha seed based plants to produce the much needed commodity. Analysts said long-neglected jatropha ready for a starring role and a rival to palm oil as

November 21, 2010 Read Full Article

Summary of Cellulosic Biofuels & Biorefineries Summit Day 1

by Joanne Ivancic (Advanced Biofuesl USA)  The Renewable Fuel Association's Bob Dinneen started the Cellulosic Biofuels & Biorefineries Summit with a call to the biofuels community--ethanol, cellulosic ethanol, advanced biofuels, renewable and biodiesel--to realize their common bonds and interests. Particularly,

November 16, 2010 Read Full Article

U.S. Biofuel Production, Use Lags

by Philip Brasher (Zanesville Times Recorder)  Motorists will use just a fraction of the next-generation biofuels in 2011 that Congress intended, and even that small amount depends on a single project in Iowa that isn't ready yet. ... Cellulose and algae are

November 10, 2010 Read Full Article

As Oil Runs Out, Alternative Fuels Need a Boost

by Stephen E.F. Brown (San Francisco Business Times)  Oil supplies are likely to run out 90 years before there are viable alternative fuels readily available, according to a study from U.C. Davis. Researchers Debbie Niemeier and Nataliya Malyshkina found that oil is

November 10, 2010 Read Full Article

Brazil Needs $50 Billion To Meet Ethanol Demand By 2015-16

by Tony Danby  (NASDAQ)  Brazil's ethanol sector needs around $50 billion of new investments by 2015-16 to meet the country's surging demand for the alternative fuel, according to the president of local ethanol giant ETH Bioenergia. Brazil's consumption of ethanol is expected

November 10, 2010 Read Full Article

World Biofuel Demand to Reach 121 Million Metric Tons in 2014

(TransWorldNews)  Growth in world biofuel demand will continue to expand at a rapid double-digit annual pace, reaching 121 million metric tons in 2014.  Bioethanol will experience the greatest gains, as continued steady growth in the large North American market will be

November 10, 2010 Read Full Article

Obama May Kill Key DOE Loan Guarantee Program

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  Washington, the Obama Administration developed and has been debating an option to kill the Section 1705 DOE Loan Guarantee program, and transfer remaining funds to a pool for Section 1603 investment tax credits that, as currently

November 08, 2010 Read Full Article

Local Growth White Paper

by Vincent Cable (They Work For You)  This Government's economic ambition is to build a more balanced economy, driven by private sector growth. Today I am announcing the publication of the Government's local growth White Paper, which sets out what that

November 03, 2010 Read Full Article

The Future of Biofuels: The Post-Alcohol World

(The Economist)  Biofuels are back. This time they might even work. MAKE something people want to buy at a price they can afford. Hardly a revolutionary business strategy, but one that the American biofuels industry has, to date, eschewed. Now a new

October 29, 2010 Read Full Article

The Algae Bears Give Their Growl

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) Pike Research released a report projecting the growth of algal fuel production to only 61 million gallons per year by 2020. Interestingly, the Pike Group projected an overall value of $1.3 billion, or more than $20

October 28, 2010 Read Full Article

Stickwitu: Promise Rings, Partnerships in Advanced Bioenergy Grow in Size, Complexity

by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest)  ...for several years we have been tracking the growing complexity and size of the partnerships and strategic investments in bioenergy, as the industry inches towards the commercialization of advanced biofuels. It was partnership that funded the

October 27, 2010 Read Full Article

How to Get Biofuels Moving Again

by Michael Kanellos and Jim Imbler  (Green Tech Media) To help this industry thrive, governments need to develop and implement a strategy that will last decades, argues Zeachem CEO Jim Imbler. the advanced biofuels industry is determined to commercialize and stand on

October 26, 2010 Read Full Article

OriginOil’s Riggs Eckelberry on CA Prop. 23

by David Schwartz (Algae Industry Magazine)  California’s clean energy initiatives and businesses are at a crossroads, pending the outcome of Proposition 23 on the November ballot. Should the proposition succeed, it would suspend California’s 2006 history-making climate bill, AB32, which mandates,

October 21, 2010 Read Full Article

What Do Next-Gen Biofuel Companies Offer the Biotech Investor ?

by John Hamer (Biofuels Digest/Burrill & Co.)  One might ask, “What do next-gen biofuel companies offer the biotech investor ?” 1. Well known products. ... Biotech’s make high risk products... 2. Early revenue and earlier profits.  ...biotech drug development is a long process with

October 20, 2010 Read Full Article

Cellulosic Producers Advance Projects

by Kris Bevill (Ethanol Producers Magazine)  Recent activities in the cellulosic ethanol industry have shown that while financing continues to be a major hurdle, technological advancements continue to be made and companies are beginning to construct their first commercial-scale facilities. BlueFire

October 18, 2010 Read Full Article

Is the RFS Broken?

by Kris Bevill  (Ethanol Producer Magazine)  There’s a growing consensus among the budding cellulosic ethanol community that the renewable fuels standard (RFS) is not doing its job. Enacted in 2005 and amended in 2007, the RFS was part of legislation

October 18, 2010 Read Full Article

Algae Industry Growth and Future Directions

by Mark Edwards  (Algae Industry Magazine)  ...The 2010 Algae World Europe Industry Survey was conducted in association with the Centre for Management Technology and 2nd Algae World Europe 2010 Conference in Brussels. The 2010 Algae World Survey follows the 2009

October 14, 2010 Read Full Article

Avantium Builds YXY Pilot Plant for Green Materials and Fuels

(Avantium)  Avantium announced October 14, 2010, that it has started with the construction of a pilot plant at the Chemelot site (Geleen, the Netherlands). The pilot plant will produce YXY building blocks for making green materials and fuels. Avantium has developed a novel and

October 14, 2010 Read Full Article

Biofuel Project Hits Bureaucratic Snag

by Ron Brochu  (BusinessNorth.com)  ...Federal loan guarantees are available to support construction of the high-tech Flambeau River Biofuels refinery in Park Falls, but project sponsors say the government’s terms could derail their chance to succeed. Those Department of Energy terms, they

October 12, 2010 Read Full Article
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