by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In Florida, Progressive Fuels Limited announced the launch of a new trading platform called Easy Trade. PFL developed East Trade in conjunction with Elysian Systems (a subsidiary of The Chicago Mercantile Exchange). Traders, marketers, producers, plants,
markets/sales
Back TO HOMEPlatts Unveils Comprehensive Biofuels News and Pricing Service
(Platts/PR NewsWire) Consolidates News, Analysis and Pricing in Three Biofuels-Specific Products A comprehensive array of news, market analysis and pricing is now available to the burgeoning biofuels sector through three new products from Platts, a leading global energy, petrochemicals and metals
September 05, 2012 Read Full Article
Czarnikow Sees Improved EU Ethanol Outlook After U.S. Drought
by Whitney McFerron (Bloomberg) Surging corn prices and policy changes in the U.S. and European Union mean the outlook for the EU’s ethanol industry has “improved dramatically” this year, Czarnikow Group Ltd. said. U.S. ethanol prices have rallied as drought damaged corn
August 10, 2012 Read Full Article
The Republic of Biofuels and the Age of Plenty
by Mackinnon Lawrence (Biofuels Digest/Pike Research) Since its inception, the bio-based economy — a multifaceted effort aimed at supplanting fossil fuels with biomass resources as the engine of the global economy — has been squarely focused on the issue of Peak
August 02, 2012 Read Full Article
Ethanol 'One of the Most Hated Industries': CEO
by Jane Wells (CNBC) ...Proponents say refiners can use past spending splurges on ethanol as credits against this year's purchasing requirements, and exports will also probably be cut. This should leave more corn for everyone else. However, that may not happen.
July 31, 2012 Read Full Article
Letter to the Editor - Response to Wall Street Journal: Purpose over Panic. Fact over Fear.
by Bob Dinneen (Renewable Fuels Association) Mr. Larry Pope’s July 27th op-ed “The Ethanol Mandate is Worse Than The Drought” calls out for a rebuttal. It is a bit astonishing to read an op-ed in the Wall Street Journal that argues against
July 31, 2012 Read Full Article
Drought Impacts Ethanol Production
by Seth Slabaugh (The Star Press) ... “High corn prices driven by the drought have caused some ethanol plants to temporarily idle or reduce production,” Matt Hartwig of the Renewable Fuels Association, an ethanol trade group in Washington, D.C., told The
July 23, 2012 Read Full Article
Building Opportunity: New Tax Credits in Florida Aim to Incent Economic Development and Job Creation Through Biofuel Infrastructure Investments
by Erin Voegele (Biodiesel Magazine) ...Specifically, the bill provides a sales tax refund for materials used in the distribution of blends of B10 through neat B100, ethanol blends of E10-E100, and other renewable fuels produced with biomass feedstock and used
July 19, 2012 Read Full Article
Paper Evaluates Consequences of Dueling CAFE, RFS Policies
by Kris Bevill (Ethanol Producer Magazine) Increasing fuel efficiency standards are expected to shrink U.S. gasoline demand over the coming years while, at the same time, the renewable fuel standard (RFS) will require increasing amounts of alternative fuels to be
April 26, 2012 Read Full Article
Incentives and Fuel Demand Boost Biofuels
by Joanna Schroeder (DomesticFuel.com) According to a new report from GlobalData, government incentives and fuel demand are helping to boost biofuels markets. “Biofuels (Biodiesel and Bioethanol) Market – Global Production, Regulations, Export-Import Analysis and Key Country Analysis to 2020,” found that countries
April 24, 2012 Read Full Article
Ethanol Producers Deal with Low Demand
by Dan Piller (Des Moines Register) Producers had lots left over after a federal tax credit ended. Also, exports to Brazil have decreased. Ethanol has generated more than its share of detractors, but since Jan. 1 the biofuel’s real enemy has
February 13, 2012 Read Full Article
Corn Stover Marketing Will Require Much More Market Analysis Than Corn Marketing
(FarmGateBlog.com) Many Cornbelt farmers are planning to deliver corn stover to the local ethanol plant to generate a new income stream. Others are planning to cultivate and harvest switchgrass, miscanthus, or other biomass crops also for ethanol production. Yet others
December 29, 2011 Read Full Article
Control Union's Verkerk Says Biofuels Will Grow Europe Canola Market
by Scott Larson (The Star Phoenix) A new market for canola growers is opening up in Europe, says a representative for Control Union, a Netherland-based company that certifies supply chains for products entering Europe. While Canadian canola has been shut
December 28, 2011 Read Full Article
To Survive, Some Biofuels Companies Give Up on Biofuels
by Kevin Bullis (MIT Technology Review) Gevo, a prominent advanced-biofuels company that has received millions in U.S. government funding to develop fuels made from cellulosic sources such as grass and wood chips, is finding that it can't use these materials
December 23, 2011 Read Full Article
Battery-Car Future Undercut by Europe, Improvements in ICE Technology
by Neil Winton (Detroit News) Investment bank Morgan Stanley came up with a nasty surprise for Nissan-Renault and other cheer-leaders for battery powered cars when it cut its electric vehicle sales forecast by nearly 50 per cent for 2025. Europe’s economic
December 19, 2011 Read Full Article
Asian Palm-Based Biofuel May Struggle in U.S.
by Niluksi Koswanage (Reuters) Indonesian palm-based biodiesel shipments seeking a foothold in the United States will face stiff competition from feedstocks such as corn oil and waste oils, which will become cheaper as more supplies hit the market, a top
December 06, 2011 Read Full Article
Ethanol Production Capacity over 14 Billion Gallons
by Carey Gillam (Reuters) The U.S. biofuels industry has more than 14 billion gallons in annual production capacity for fuel ethanol, according to new industry and government data, but growth has hit a plateau and experts see steady but slow
December 02, 2011 Read Full Article
Venture Capitalist Marianne Wu On Why Now Is The Right Time For Biofuels
by Rachel Z. Arndt (Fast Company) "It's a really exciting time in biofuels and biochemicals," VC Marianne Wu says. "We're looking at massive markets, increased demand, and significant advances in biology and chemistry. A lot of people assume that green
November 21, 2011 Read Full Article
EIA Issues 2012 Cellulosic Biofuel Predictions
by Kris Bevill (Ethanol Producer Magazine) The U.S. DOE’s Energy Information Administration predicts that only six cellulosic biofuel producers will make fuel available for sale in 2012, producing a total of just 6.9 million gallons of fuel over the course
November 17, 2011 Read Full Article
Research and Markets: Biofuel Consumption in Germany - Industry and Country Analysis
(BusinessWire/Research and Markets) Biofuel Consumption in Germany - Industry and Country Analysis provides five forces Industry analysis, along with PESTLE country analysis of Germany. This report concludes with profiles of the leading companies in the German biofuel consumption market. Project Description: Includes market
October 31, 2011 Read Full Article
Market for Biofuels Expected to Double
(Auto News/ZAuto) Many who have dismissed biofuels as impractical fuel sources may want to think again. As the worldwide demand for biofuels increases, the market value for the industry is expected to more than double in the next ten years
October 20, 2011 Read Full Article
Gevo, the Panicked Investor, and the Aviation Fuels Opportunity
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) 30 billion gallons of aviation fuels demand, and Gevo’s got a technology to produce it, using retrofitted ethanol plants, and a path to fueling planes at parity with conventional jet fuel prices. Game-changer? ...Why are investors
September 30, 2011 Read Full Article
Breaking Oil's Monopoly on Transportation
by Geoffrey Styles (Energy Outlook) I've been thinking about an op-ed in Tuesday's New York Times written by a former National Security Advisor and a former CIA chief. ...The op-ed was apparently timed to mark the introduction of a new group
September 27, 2011 Read Full Article
Global Spending on Biofuels in 2011 Will Total $46.63bn Says visiongain Report
(PRLog/visiongain) During 2010-2011, the biofuels market gained increased interest as the price of oil increased rapidly. Many developed countries, such as the US and countries in the European Union, reconsidered their energy policy. On the other side, policy makers were promoting
September 22, 2011 Read Full Article
Market Access Will Save US from $4 Gasoline, Says FuelChoiceNow
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) In Washington, a coalition called FuelChoiceNow has opened for business one worth taking a very, very close look at. The pitch: that advanced fuel companies are developing new, affordable and commercial-ready alternatives to oil, but are inhibited
September 21, 2011 Read Full Article
Opening Plenary – "Industry Perspectives on Bioenergy": The Future Biobased Economy
by Matt Carr (Biotechnology Industry Organization). Matt Carr, Managing Director or BIO notes that in 2011, biofuels comprise about 10% of the US transportation fuel market; in 2025, biofuels will consist of around 25% of that market. Renewable chemicals and
September 09, 2011 Read Full Article
Purdue Economists Report on Causes of High Commodity Prices
by Keith Robinson (Purdue University) Growing demand for corn to use in biofuels and for soybeans to help feed a booming Chinese economy are among key forces driving commodity prices higher this year, according to a report by three
July 19, 2011 Read Full Article
Open Trade Is Mechanism for Balancing Biofuels Supply and Demand
(GLG Research) ...Trade is the mechanism that has a better chance of triggering innovation and technological advancement that create markets and improvement in productivity that ultimately leads to lower costs. Subsidies and trade tariff protection only continues to pamper inefficient
May 05, 2011 Read Full Article
Mission Makes Crude Jatropha Oil Sale, Expanding Geographic Market And Customer Base
(The Street/BusinessWire) Mission NewEnergy Limited , a global leader in providing energy from renewable sources, is pleased to announce that it has sold a further 280 barrels (38 tons) of unrefined Jatropha oil to a new customer in Southeast Asia. Mission
May 05, 2011 Read Full Article
Crude Oil Imports and National Security
by Robert M. Ames, Anthony Corridore, Edward Hirs, Paul W. MacAvoy (Yale Graduates Energy Study Group) The authors demonstrate that the United States profits handsomely in all circumstances by imposing an embargo on imports of foreign crude oil. The US removes its
February 26, 2010 Read Full Article
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