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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 [...]

Iogen: 50 Hotttest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

Iogen
Based in: Canada
2008-09 rank: 18
Business: Cellulosic ethanol production
Model: Owner-operator.
Past milestones:
In 2009, a Shell station in Ottawa became the first in the country to serve cars with cellulosic ethanol, offering a 10 percent blend of gasoline and wheat straw ethanol manufactured at a demonstration-scale cellulosic ethanol plan jointly owned by Shell and Iogen.
A [...]

Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: Steering the Company and Codexis

LOSING IS NOT AN OPTION

PROFITS Principles, Steering the Company

Funding is tight – almost non-existent.  Companies are swelling with capacity and scrambling to meet payroll and debt interest.  Dividends are relics of the past and employees remain at many companies because they have nowhere else to go, as their shoulders sag with the [...]

Searchinger, et al Science paper say treaty rules for bioenergy emissions encourage deforestation; industry reaction swift, strong

Controversy over land use change erupted again in the biofuels industry with the publication of a new article in science by Timonthy Searchinger, Daniel Kammen and 11 others, which said that “an important but fixable error in legal accounting rules for bioenergy” relating to land use change could “undermine efforts to reduce greenhouse gases by [...]

Today in Biofuels Opinion: “I would think all those movie stars in California might start putting in their orders for Impalas.”

Green Plains Renewable Energy CEO Todd Becker: “The shakeout in the U.S. ethanol industry in the past year has helped draw stronger players to the business and made producers better able to cope with soft margins. I think people have learned how to manage in a tight market. I think (the industry) fixed itself. Bigger [...]

Three conferences explore algae, sustainability and European bioenergy

Three conference events have been added to the heavy fall schedule of biofuels events. In India, the 2nd Algae Biofuels Summit is scheduled for 8-10 September with participation from Total, Shell, Indian Oil, Tata Chemicals, NREL, and others.
In the UK, the Renewable Energy Association is staging the European Bioenergy Expo and Conference October 8-10, including [...]

PureVision Technology: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

PureVision Technology
Based in: Colorado
2008-09 ranking: Unranked
Business: Front-end Biomass Fractionation for production of inexpensive sugars for the biofuels fermentation industry. The company extracts separate sugars and lignin streams from biomass for downstream conversion to cellulosic ethanol, butanol, next-generation drop-in biofuels or biochemicals
Model: Equipment and process sales, licensing and sublicensing fees, and royalty licensing per thousand dry tonnes [...]

Microbiogen receives $A2.5 million from Australia for research on conversion of xylose to biofuels

In Australia, the federal government awarded $A2.5 million to Microbiogen under the Second Generation Biofuels Research and Development Program, wfor R&D into more efficient means of using C5 and C6 sugars. Microbiogen has developed an enzyme that grows on xylose (C6) and ferments glucose, using natural breeding techniques, realizing the first non genetically-modied enzyme that [...]

Australia awards $12.1 million to seven projects in algae, cellulosic ethanol, biocrude

In Australia, the national government announced seven winners of $12.1 million in grants for second generation biofuels R&D programs.
A group including South Australian Research and Development Institute, Flinders University and CSIRO won $2.27 million to develop a pilot-scale algal biofuels refinery, while a group from the University of Melbourne received $1.0 million for a project [...]

Who’s Your Daddy’s Daddy?: a look at Bioenergy and Washington lobbying

In Washington, the Center for Public Integrity released a report on lobbying over the impending Climate Bill, and reported that 13 bioenergy companies plus several trade groups registered to lobby Congress for the first time on global warming.
Companies that popped up for the first time to lobby on climate change include: Algenol Biofuels, the American [...]