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Aurora Biofuels: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile
50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy: Aurora Biofuels www.aurorabiofuels.com
Based in: California
2008-09 Ranking: #30
Business: Aurora burst onto the scene in June 2008 with the announcement that it had raised $20 million in series A financing from Oak Investment Partners, Noventi and Gabriel Venture Partners. Gabriel and Noventi had participated in a seed stage round. Aurora plans to [...]
50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy: Special Voter’s Report on Algae
Algae, algae, algae.
Open up an industry magazine or a website, and there doesn’t seem to be an end to the hope, the hype, and the coverage.
What’s the big deal?
The background
Microalgae is a fast-growing organism that is highly efficient in converting sunlight, CO2 and micronutrients found in water into simple sugars. So efficient, that it stores [...]
Pacific Rim Summit to feature algae biofuels program
In Hawaii, the Pacific Rim Summit – a conference organized by BIO for Honolulu from Nov 9-11, 2010- will feature a series of programs on the state of algae-based biofuels development.
Topics include “International Developments in Algae Commercialization,”, “Status Report from Algae Biofuels Producers,” “Challenges in Algae Conversion of CO2,” and “From Algae to Energy – [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “Algae delivers the promise of biofuels — a low-cost, quick way to transform our current vehicles to low carbon.”
From Earth2Tech: “Algae fuel has become the latest beloved cleantech product of politicians. Last month Congressman Edward Markey (D-Mass.), co-sponsor of the Waxman-Markey climate change bill, toured algae fuel startup Aurora Biofuels’ lab and earlier this month kicked off an algae-fueled road trip (using fuel from Sapphire Energy) in front of San Francisco’s City Hall. [...]
14 biofuels companies named to AlwaysOn 100; ZeaChem is category winner
In California, AlwaysOn named ZeaChem as the Category winner for biofuels and agriculture in its AlwaysOn 100. Amyris Biotechnologies, Aurora Biofuels, Evolutionary Genomics, Genomatica, Joule Biotechnologies, KiOR, LanzaTech, LS9, Mendel Biotechnology, Performance Plants, Qteros, Segetis, SG Biofuels and Synthetic Genomics were the other biofuel companies named as AlwaysOn 100 award winners.
The companies were selected by [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “A 3-6% increase in hydrous ethanol production…will help to increase ethanol sales.”
Brian J. Donovan, Renergie: “Hydrous (or wet) ethanol is the most concentrated grade of ethanol that can be produced by simple distillation, without the further dehydration step necessary to produce anhydrous (or dry) ethanol. Hydrous ethanol (also sometimes known as azeotropic ethanol) typically ranges from 186 proof (93% ethanol, 7% water) to 192 proof (96% [...]
Algae blooms in St. Louis, San Diego, Seattle and Silicon Valley, but which is the King of Algae? READER POLL
Bloom times for four cities, but which is the King of Algae?
Whichever region, in fact, is the King of Algal Biofuels, it seems sure to begin with an S.
Over the past year, St. Louis, San Diego/La Jolla, Seattle, and San Jose/San Francisco/Silicon Valley have risen above the pack.
Though Boston has been home to compelling research [...]
Aurora Biofuels announces doubled algae production in open pond systems
In California, Aurora Biofuels announced that it has succeeded in optimizing its base algae strains to more than double CO2 consumption and fuel production, and has proven these results in an outdoor open system over the last several months. The company said that it has developed a proprietary process which allows for the superior selection [...]
Markey says “Our legislation will unleash more than a trillion dollars’ worth of private sector investment” as four algae project advance
As the summer of algae continues, start-up Aquentium announced a 475-acre project in New Mexico, new details emerged regarding the BP-Martek deal, a California municipality is using algae to clean water and reduce power bills, and Waxman-Markey climate bill co-sponsor Edward Markey visited the Aurora Biofuels labs in California and said “Get ready…Our legislation will [...]
Greener Dawn Research releases 90-page algae biofuels report
In California, Greener Dawn Research released its 90-page report on the emerging algae-to-biofuels field. Greener Dawn examines the opportunities and challenges of the nascent industry, and features insight on the eight major algae-to-fuel companies nearing commercialization. The eight profiled companies include Algenol, Aurora, Livefuels, PetroAlgae, Sapphire, Seambiotic, Solix, and Solazyme.
The report addresses the key question – [...]
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The 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy - Sponsored by Core Informatics
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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 Bioenergy
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 -
