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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 [...]

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 [...]

Next Generation Biofuels Feedstocks USA convenes in San Francisco, November 16-17

In California, the Next Generation Biofuels Feedstocks USA conference is scheduled for San Francisco on November 16-17. At the conference, regulatory officials, project developers, R&D experts and investors will examine production and feedstock issues.
Speakers are scheduled from the Algal Biomass Association (ABO) - American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE), Biofuel Capital Partners, Cascadia Capital, Cobalt Biofuels, [...]

Cobalt Biofuels: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

Cobalt Biofuels
Based in: California
2008-09 ranking: 17
Business: Producer of Butanol, electricity and a small amount of acetone via integrated biorefinery and biomass electricity generation.  Biofuels production involves fermentation of non-food cellulosic (hemicellulose and cellulose) feedstock.  Lignin is passed to the onsite boiler and generates sufficient power to serve the needs of the biorefinery, with significant excess [...]

Today in Biofuels Opinion: “[EPA's] current methodology treats biofuels and petroleum derived fuel inconsistently.”

From a letter to Senators Barbara Boxer and John Kerry from 20 bioenergy executives: “While we commend EPA for its preliminary efforts to consider all possible carbon impacts from transportation fuels, their current methodology treats biofuels and petroleum derived fuel inconsistently. The point of controversy is EPA’s preliminary decision to enforce “indirect land use change” penalties against biofuels. This is problematic for three reasons: (1) biofuels are being penalized for indirect carbon effects while petroleum is not, setting up an inconsistent system boundary and an asymmetrical comparison between the fuels; (2) indirect effects are incredibly difficult to predict with any precision, especially using economic models not designed for direct regulation;  and (3) there are public policy questions related to the fact that indirect land use change is not the land cultivated to produce biofuel feedstock, but rather is the land expansion theoretically occurring on the margins of the agricultural sector for food, feed and fiber production….It is also clear that “land use change” is not the only significant indirect carbon effect of using more biofuels. For example, using more biofuel replaces demand for the next gallon of petroleum introduced into the system (i.e. the marginal oil gallon), which will be produced using far more carbon?intensive practices (e.g. tar sands, thermally enhanced oil recovery, heavy crude, etc.). Crediting biofuels for this real world indirect benefit also corrects the asymmetry of comparing marginal biofuel gallons to average 2005 gasoline or diesel, which is a mythical baseline that will get much dirtier over time. Even Saudi Arabia, home to the largest light crude reserves in the world, is beginning to move away from light sweet to sour fossil crude oil.”
The complete letter is available here.
Cleantech named the following bioenergy companies to its annual Global Cleantech 100: Amyris Biotechnologies, BioGasol, Chemrec. Cobalt Biofuels, Coskata, Gevo, LS9, Sapphire Energy, Solazyme, and ZeaChem

Biobutanol breakthrough: researchers develop bacterial strain that doubles production

In Ohio, research engineers at Ohio State University, reporting at the American Chemical Society meeting this week, said that they have developed a new strain of the bacterium Clostridium beijerinckii in a bioreactor containing bundles of polyester fibers, that produced up to 30 grams of butanol per liter.
Previously, at north of 15 grams per liter [...]

Next Generation Biofuels meeting in Amsterdam features 7 “Hot 50″ CEOs

In Amsterdam, the Next Generation Biofuels conference picks up in Amsterdam September 28-30 with an all-star lineup of speakers tackling subjects from drop in fuels to cellulosic ethanol, biobutanol and biodiesel.
Among the speakers are the CEOs of LS9, Bluefire Ethanol, DuPont Danisco, Cobalt Biofuels, KL Energy, SEKAB, and Solazyme – all featuring in the 2008-09 [...]

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 [...]

BP, DuPont butanol JV, Butamax, heads for commercialization; BP = “butanol play”? How will Gevo, Cobalt counter?

In Delaware, BP and Dupont announced the commencement of commercialization of their butanol venture, which will be named Butamax Advanced Biofuels. According to the joint venture partners, Butamax Advanced Biofuels was formed to develop biobutanol – an advanced biofuel that will provide improved options for expanding energy supplies and accelerate the move to renewable transportation [...]