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50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy: Amyris takes leads in selector balloting as 11/23 vote deadline nears

All this week, subscribers are casting their ballots for the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy.
Balloting will be open to the registered subscribers of the Biofuels Digest, Geothermal Digest and Biomass Digest e-newsletters, through Monday November 23rd at 5pm EST. To cast your vote, click here.
To download your free copy of the Selectors Data Book for [...]

POET, BP, Coskata and Sapphire among early contenders in 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy underway

All this week, subscribers are casting their ballots for the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy.
Balloting will be open to the registered subscribers of the Biofuels Digest, Geothermal Digest and Biomass Digest e-newsletters, through Monday November 23rd at 5pm EST.  The link to the ballot will be distributed this week in every edition of the Digest [...]

Tennessee’s Governor lashes at legislators over ‘ridiculous’ biofuels flap: “They may have single-handedly cost an awful lot of jobs.”

In Tennessee, a controversy blew up in the Legislature over a contention that legislators were not advised that a Dupont Danisco project, which received $70 million in state support, had changed its short-term feedstock strategy to corn cobs, from switchgrass, and had reduced its capacity from 5 million to 250,000 gallons.
At the same time, Governor [...]

DuPont Danisco: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

DuPont Danisco
Based in: Illinois
2008-09 ranking: 9
Business: Cellulosic ethanol production, now in demonstration stage, constructing a facility in Vonore, TN, and a switchgrass feedstock supplied by Genera Energy and corn cobs supplied by Sun Grant.

Model: Licensing.
3 top milestones for 2008-09
1. Formation of JV
2. Site and funding of demonstration facility
3. Start up of Vonore, TN demonstration facility [...]

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 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 [...]

Today in Biofuels Opinion: “Each year it has always been “four to five years down the road” before commercial production would become viable…”four to five years” is now.”

From Cattle Network: “The arrival of ethanol produced from cellulosic feedstock sources has almost been a standing joke within the ethanol industry. Each year it has always been “four to five years down the road” before commercial production would become viable. That has changed because the “four to five years” is now. At the recent [...]

Biofuels Digest Anniversary issue: The 10 Most Popular Stories of the Year for 2008-09

Today, Biofuels Digest celebrates its 2nd anniversary with a special look back at the “10 Most Popular Stories of the Year” for 2008-09
1. The Hottest 50 Companies in Bioenergy. Published right before Christmas last year, the Hottest 50 didn’t attract much attention at the time, but has become the Digest’s most popular annual feature. Not [...]

DuPont’s three-pronged biofuels strategy unfolds in seed, cellulosic ethanol and biobutanol

In Illinois, AgWired has filed a report on the strategy of North American DuPont Biofuels based on a presentation by exec Dennis Magyar at the International Farm Management Association 17 Congress.
The company confirmed its three-pronged strategy for producing sustainable feedstock, cellulosic ethanol and advanced biofuels. Magyar said that its Pioneer HiBred corn seed, the DuPont [...]