Top 10 Biofuels Predictions for 2012
by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) …10. Advanced biofuels capacity surges to 1 billion gallons, globally. We see 570 million gallons in capacity from Neste Oil alone; 137 Mgy from Diamond Green, 75 Mgy from Dynamic Fuels, 62 Mgy from KiOR, 37 Mgy from Gevo, and 25 Mgy from POET. …
9. Merger-Mania. 200 companies can’t all continue to march forward, developing advanced bioenergy projects. …
8. Selected IPOs go forward. …
7. Momentum shifts to Asia. …
6. US Renewable Fuel Standard is revised. Though most US biofuels trade associations have kept strongly to a “don’t mess with the RFS” strategy, its common sense that the forces that opposed the VEETC ethanol tax credit – chicken and beef producers, anti-corn activists and small government zealots – will now pivot their full attention to the Renewable Fuel Standard, showcasing the shortfall in the cellulosic biofuels pool. …
5. Oil and chemical companies rule. …
4. Aviation biofuels capacity increases, but US $510M investment de-funded. …
3. Ethanol producers begin switch to biobutanol and chemicals en masse. …
2. “Carbon capture & re-use” …
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