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Special Digest Update on biofuels made from municipal solid waste

In a recent poll, Digest readers identified “waste biomass” as the hottest feedstock – and companies using agricultural, forest, animal and municipal residues have been receiving much support in the “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy” voting, underway this week. Before voting closes, it’s well worth a special look at companies that are utilizing municipal solid [...]

GEM Biofuels: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

GEM Biofuels
Based in: Madagascar
2008-09 ranking: 47

Business: GEM BioFuels is initially focusing on the establishment of ‘company managed’ plantations of Jatropha trees in Madagascar and the extraction of the vegetable oil that is produced from its seeds as this oil is well suited to use in the production of biodiesel.
GEM BioFuels has been established to supply jatropha-based [...]

Algenol, Linde Group partner to optimize CO2, oxygen in algal fuel production

In Florida, Algenol Biofuels and the international gases and engineering giant The Linde Group have inked a joint development project to develop cost-efficient technologies that capture, store, transport and supply CO2 for Algenol’s proprietary process for the production of third-generation (3G) biofuels out of carbon dioxide, salt water and algae, as well as remove oxygen [...]

USDA, DOE announce $24 million in bioenergy, bio-based products R&D grants: Gevo, Velocys, GE, Agrivida among awardees for ethanol, biobutanol, drop-in fuels

In Washington, the US Departments of Agriculture and Energy today announced $24 million in R&D grants for biofuels, bioenergy and high-value biobased products.  Of the $24.4 million announced today, DOE plans to invest up to $4.9 million with USDA contributing up to $19.5 million.
Projects announced today will contribute a minimum of 20 percent of matching [...]

St.1 Biofuels Oy: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

St. 1 Biofuels Oy
Based in: Finland
2008-09 rank: 28
Business: Continuous fermentation of ethanol. Subsidiary of Finnish privately owned energy company St1 Oy
3 Top Milestones for 2008?09
1. Building and opening four new plants utilizing different food industry waste and sidestreams. Feedstock is from local bakeries, potato processing plant, sweet manufacturing and brewery. Also old dated [...]

UK moves to close “bonkers” waste cooking oil anomaly in biofuels legislation

In the UK, an amendment to UK biofuels legislation has been proposed to ensure that used cooking oil is counted as a biofuel feedstock. According to a report in Biofuels International, “under the current regulatory regime, when a small proportion is derived from fossil fuels the product is deemed a fossil fuel by Ofgem, a [...]

Greenfield signs MOU for offtake from Chernobyl biofuels project

In Belarus, Greenfield Project Management announced an offtake MOU with Litasco for ethanol produced in Phase I of Greenfield’s bioenergy complex at Mozyr. The companies said they are working on finalizing a pricing formula before signing the definitive offtake agreement.
The Greenfield complex in Belarus will initially produce 50 Mgy of ethanol, rising to 150 Mgy [...]

Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: Obtaining Vital Information, and Codexis

What Do You Have To Know?
Bioenergy PROFITS Principle – Obtaining Vital Information
As your company’s CEO or a member of the senior management team, of course you know what your company’s technology is.  But…do your employees understand the processes well enough to explain them to anyone who asks about these processes?
Every person in your company [...]

Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: Steering the Company and Codexis

LOSING IS NOT AN OPTION

PROFITS Principles, Steering the Company

Funding is tight – almost non-existent.  Companies are swelling with capacity and scrambling to meet payroll and debt interest.  Dividends are relics of the past and employees remain at many companies because they have nowhere else to go, as their shoulders sag with the [...]

RFA lobbying of DOE to ease loan guarantee requirements, citing advanced biofuels difficulties in qualifying

In Washington, the Renewable Fuels Association commenced an effort to persuade U.S. DOE Secretary of Energy Steven Chu to address issues with the DOE’s loan guarantee program as related to cellulosic ethanol biorefineries. The association’s letter begins as follows:
Dear Secretary Chu:
The Renewable Fuels Association, the national trade association representing the U.S. ethanol industry, is writing [...]