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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 [...]

Bioenergy PROFITS Principals: Obtaining Vital Information, and Verenium, Dyadic, Coskata

INFORMATION OVERLOAD – What’s the Solution to my Problem?
Obtaining Vital Information – Part III
How do you sift all the available information to find only what you need to help you make sound decisions?  It is worthwhile to know the best sources of information for your business.  Many industries have websites, research reports or other sources [...]

BlueFire Ethanol proceeds to Stage Two of DOE Loan guarantee process

In California, the Department of Energy has determined that BlueFire Ethanol has met the requirements of Part One of the loan guarantee application process, and have invited the company to proceed onto Part Two of the process for financing the company’s commercial cellulosic biofuels plant planned for Lancaster, CA.
BlueFire is raising $56 million, which would [...]

BlueFire Ethanol receives $3.8 million reimbursement from DOE; proceeding with Fulton, MS development

In California, in a “Benjamins for biofuels update,” BlueFire Ethanol Fuels has received $3.8 million reimbursement from the Department of Energy – in the form of a reimbursement – funds that will allow the company to proceed with a shift of its demonstration-level project to Fulton, Mississippi. BlueFire was originally awarded a $40 million grant [...]

50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy: Complete candidate profiles and company registration information

The 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy rankings  for 2009-10 will be released Tuesday, 12/1.

Rules and procedures
Register your company
Candidate profiles
Aquaflow Bionomic
Balboa Pacific
BARD
Bioalgene
BioFuelBox
Biolight Harvesting
Blue Marble Energy
BlueFire Ethanol
BP Biofuels
Ceres
Chemrec
Cobalt Biofuels
Codexis
Comet Biorefining
Continental Technologies
Coskata
Diversified Energy
DSM White Biotechnology
Dynamic Fuels
Dynamotive
EdeniQ
Enerkem
Enhanced Biofuels
Fulcrum BioEnergy
Genencor
GeoSynFuels
Gevo
GlycosBio
Ineos Bio
Joule Biotechnologies
KL Energy
LS9
LanzaTech
Martek
Mascoma
Novozymes
Piedmont Biofuels
Plankton Power
POET
Praj Industries
PureVision Technology
Range Fuels
Raven Biofuels
Remediation Earth
Remfuel
Renewable Energy Group
Rentech
SEKAB
SG Biofuels
Solazyme
Sriya Innovations
StormFisher Biogas
Qteros
Terrabon
Targeted Growth
ThermoChem Recovery
TMO [...]

BlueFire Ethanol: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

BlueFire Ethanol
Based in: California
2008-09 ranking: #13

Business: BlueFire Ethanol’s Concentrated Acid Hydrolysis Technology Process converts waste materials – such as sorted municipal waste, wood waste, green waste, straws, switchgrass, and corn stover – into ethanol.

Model: Owner/operator.
Past milestones:
1. Received permits for Lancaster facility.
2. Teamed up with Solazyme
3. Deploying $40 MM award from U.S. Department of [...]

The BB Gun – the DOE’s “BB” rating requirement blasts diversity in clean energy development

In Washington, the US Department of Energy is requiring that to receive DOE loan guarantees renewable energy projects meet a debt rating standard higher than 63 percent of all US corporate first-time debt issuers since 2007 in order to qualify for renewable energy loan guarantees. Affected is the Section 1705 loan guarantee program. The section [...]

BlueFire shifts second cellulosic ethanol project to Mississippi; taxes, timing issues in move from California

In California, cellulosic ethanol pioneer BlueFire Ethanol Fuels announced strategic relocation of its second planned biorefinery to Fulton, Mississippi.
After having been awarded a $40 million dollar grant from the DOE for a second planned facility in California, BlueFire Ethanol, in 2007, began development and licensing work to build their second biorefinery plant utilizing the company’s [...]

Complete text of Kerry, Boxer letter from 20 bioenergy executives

September 9, 2009
Senator Barbara Boxer
United States Senate
112 Hart Senate Office Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
Senator John F. Kerry
United States Senate
218 Russell Building
Washington, D.C. 20510
RE:  Indirect Land Use Change & Fair Carbon Accounting Under the Federal RFS
Dear Senator Boxer and Senator Kerry,
RE:  Indirect Land Use Change & Fair Carbon Accounting Under the Federal RFS
Dear Senator Boxer and Senator Kerry,
As leading Massachusetts and California-affiliated companies in the advanced biofuel sector, we are writing to clarify our position regarding the enforcement of indirect land use change (iLUC) penalties against biofuels under the amended Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS). [...]

Biofuels Digest Index gains 1.24 percent to 61.16 as BP jumps

The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, gained 1.24 percent to 61.16 on BP’s sharp rise. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) fell 1.68 percent to $27.56, while BP leapt 4.08 percent to $52.53.  Among small caps, Bluefire Ethanol (BFR) gained 11.11 percent to $1.00.  Overall, declines led advances 2 [...]