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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 [...]

Jet Plains: Do grasses, woods, mustards grown in the heartlands hold the key for aviation fuels?

Ceres, ViaSpace, Sustainable Oils, Solazyme are among R&D leaders aiming to turn America’s heartland into a high-tech advanced biofuels playground of energy grasses and camelina for advanced transportation biofuels and aviation fuel.
“I fully expect that in the future,” said Solazyme CEO Jonathan Wolfson, “that I will make my daily 15-mile commute in a car that [...]

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
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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 [...]

50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy: first ballots received; subscriber voting to begin November 16

In Florida, Biofuels Digest offered an update on voting procedures for the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy rankings, and said that it has commenced receiving ballots back from its international panel of selectors.
SELECTOR PANEL VOTING
Selector voting will close on November 23, 2009.
SUBSCRIBER VOTING
Subscriber voting will commence on November 16, 2009, and continue through November 25th.
ANNOUNCEMENT [...]

Next Generation Biofuels Feedstocks – SF, 11/16-17 has top speaker lineup

In California, the Next Generation Biofuels Feedstocks conference kicks off in San Francisco on November 16-17 with  a top-flight line-up of speakers including Digest columnist Will Thurmond.
Other speakers include Joe Skurla, CEO of Dupont Danisco, Riggs Eckelberry, CEO of Origin Oil, David Walther of Cobalt Biofuels as well as speakers from Ceres, Novozymes, Sandia National [...]

ARPE-E awards $151 million in advanced energy R&D – pyrolysis, algae, butanol, CO2 capture among hot technologies funded

In California, Secretary of Energy Steven Chu announced that ARPA-E — the Department’s recently-formed Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy — has awarded $151 million in funding for 37 research projects. Among awardees:
University of Minnesota. Direct Solar Fuels Production of liquid hydrocarbon transportation fuels directly from sunlight, water and CO2 using an artificial symbiotic colony of photosynthetic [...]

Ceres: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

Ceres
Based in: California
2008-09 ranking: #31
Business: “eres develops and markets dedicated energy crops for advanced biofuels and biopower.” Gene Marker-Assisted plant breeding, biotechnology and other genomics. Biomass is the common denominator to advanced biofuels, biopower and bioproducts and is independent of the end-fuel molecule.
Model: Seed sales and trait licenses
Past milestones:
Launched commercial seed brand Blade [...]

New projections point to massive biofuel supply/demand imbalances by 2015-2030; polyculture a way forward for sustainable production?

Three different visions of the future of global and US biofuels production were presented by researchers at Hart Energy, a team including Michigan Technological University and The Nature Conservancy, and the National Corn Growers Association.
First, the global picture from Hart. The company released its annual Global Ethanol & Biodiesel Outlook. This year the study provides [...]

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). [...]

Solazyme to sell algae-based biofuel to US Navy; EKU announces new R&D project, as “summer of algae” continues

Two algae related developments provided more evidence of “the summer of algae”, with Solazyme, the Department of Defense, and Eastern Kentucky University making announcements related to advancements towards commercialization.
In California,  Solazyme announced that it has been selected by the U.S. Department of Defense to research, develop, and demonstrate commercial scale production of algae-derived F-76 Naval [...]