50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy for 2009/10 – rules and procedures

On December 1st, the Digest will publish its annual rankings for the “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy”. There have been numerous requests since the 08/09 ranking were released about how to qualify. Here’s background for 2009/2010.

1. The rankings will be published on December 1st, and are based on weighted scores. 50 percent of the score will be based on subscriber input, and 50 percent will be based on input from a panel of academics, policy analysts, journalists, and industry leaders.

2. Eligible companies include bioenergy producers and their suppliers in business as of November 1, 2009, in all countries of the world. Producers are required to be at least at bench-scale in their development, with pilot-scale or higher preferred. Companies that have activities outside of bioenergy will be considered on the merits of their bioenergy business units.

3. The criteria are: potential impact of the company and its technology, credibility and visibility.

4. Subscriber input will be based on surveys that will be conducted about individual companies as well as groups of companies. Only registered subscribers to the Biofuels Digest e-newsletter are eligible to participate, to ensure fairness. Web-based Digest readers may continue to participate in voting for “the Biofuels Personality of the Year”.

5. Companies that wish to do so may register for the rankings process, but registration is not a requirement to be ranked. It does, however, guarantee that the company will receive consideration. To register, send an email to info@biofuelsdigest.com including the name of the company, and contact name, email and telephone number. An informational form will be sent out within 24 hours of registration.

6. Commencing Monday, August 10, 2009, the Digest will profile and analyze candidates for the Hot 50 in the daily newsletter. Subscribers will be able to to respond by poll as to whether they feel the company should be included in the Hot 50.

7. The 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy for 2008-09 are:

1. Coskata
2. Sapphire Energy
3. Virent Energy Systems
4. POET
5. Range Fuels
6. Solazyme
7. Amyris Biotechnologies
8. Mascoma
9. DuPont Danisco
10. UOP

11. ZeaChem
12. Aquaflow Bionomic
13. Bluefire Ethanol
14. Novozymes
15. Qteros
16. Petrobras
17. Cobalt Biofuels
18. Iogen
19. Synthetic Genomics
20. Abengoa Energy

21. KL Energy
22. Ineos
23. GreenFuel
24. Vital Renewable Energy
25. LS9
26. Raven Biofuels
27. Gevo
28. St.1 Biofuels Oy
29. Primafuel
30. Taurus Energy

31. Ceres
32. Syngenta
33. Aurora Biofuels
34. Bionavitas
35. Algenol
36. Verenium
37. Simply Green
38. Carbon Green
39. SEKAB
40. Osage Bioenergy

41. Dynamotive
42. Sustainable Power
43. ETH Bioenergia
44. Choren
45. OriginOil
46. Propel Fuels
47. GEM Biofuels
48. Lake Erie Biofuels
49. Cavitation Technologies
50. Lotus/Jaguar – Omnivore

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