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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 [...]
Hero BX wins $1.64 million grant to expand biodiesel production capacity from 45 Mgy to 55 Mgy
In Pennsylvania, Hero BX won a $1.64 million grant to expand its biodiesel production by 10 Mgy to 55 Mgy. American Agriculturalist is reporting that the company expects to move to up to 25 percent camelina as a feedstock source by 2012. According to the report, the company is already working with Penn State Extension [...]
Sustainable Oils wins Navy camelina jet fuel contract; 40K gallons, option for 150K more
In Montana, Sustainable Oils, a producer of camelina-based fuels, announced that it has been awarded a contract by the Defense Energy Support Center for 40,000 gallons of camelina-based jet fuel.
The fuel will be delivered to the Naval Air Systems Command fuels team in 2009 and will support the Navy’s certification testing program of alternative fuels. [...]
Lake Erie Biofuels becomes Hero BX; “at capacity” US biodiesel producer confounds industry trend, aims for expansion,
In Pennsylvania, Lake Erie Biofuels has been renamed Hero BX and said that the company will embark on a program of expansion after remaining at 100 percent of capacity with its first 45 Mgy biodiesel plant in Erie, even as the biodiesel industry has collapsed under low diesel prices and punitive European tariffs on US [...]
EPA officials visit a farm; will ’seeking first to understand’ lead to new era of high effectiveness at EPA?
In Iowa, U.S. Senator Charles Grassley today hosted senior EPA officials at a Newton, Iowa biodiesel plant managed by Renewable Energy Group. Gina McCarthy, Assistant Administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation at EPA, and Margo Oge, Director of the Office of Transportation and Air Quality at EPA were the visitors.
The invitation was initially [...]
150 mpg Algaeus starts coast-to-coast tour on algal fuel, electric power on Sept 8th
In California, Sapphire Energy and the producers of the award-winning film FUEL announced that the “Algaeus” – the world’s first plug-in hybrid vehicle also powered by algal fuel — twill commence a coast-to-coast tour containing a blend of algae-based gasoline from Sapphire Energy.
The 10-day, 10-city tour kicks off on September 8 in San Francisco. The tour [...]
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 [...]
Who’s Your Daddy?: A Special Report on key biofuels investors and investments
In Florida, Biofuels Digest released its list of current investors backing the Hottest 20 Companies in Bioenergy. (Note: The Hottest 50 companies in Bioenergy rankings for 2008-09 were released last December).
Overall, of the top 20 companies, two were privately held by individual private investors (POET and Aquaflow Bionomic), two are public (BlueFire Ethanol and Novozymes), [...]
Special Biofuels Digest report on green chemicals; offers hedge against oil and gas price volatility
Executives at Coskata, ZeaChem, Genomatica, and Genencor briefed a group of reporters yesterday on the increasing opportunities for renewable or “green” chemicals as an adjunct to the production of green fuels. Coskata was ranked #1 in the Biofuels Digest “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy” 2008-09 list, while ZeaChem ranked #11.
Tim Eggeman, the co-founder and CTO [...]
“Quo Vadis?: Whither goest thou, biofuels?” An Easter message from Biofuels Digest
“Whither goest thou, America, in thy shiny car in the night?”
Jack Kerouac, On the Road
Rampant bankruptcy among first-generation biofuel producers, combined with ruthless pressure from environmental and meat industry and food packaging firms to back off on the Renewable Fuel Standard, should cause even the most die-hard biofuels supporters to ask “whither goest thou?”
The [...]
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The 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy - Sponsored by Core Informatics
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1. Coskata
2. Sapphire Energy
3. Virent Energy Systems
4. POET
5. Range Fuels
6. Solazyme
7. Amyris Biotechnologies
8. Mascoma
9. DuPont Danisco
10. UOP
11. ZeaChem
12. Aquaflow Bionomic
13. Bluefire Ethanol
14. Novozymes
15. Qteros
16. Petrobras
17. Cobalt Biofuels
18. Iogen
19. Synthetic Genomics
20. Abengoa Bioenergy
21. KL Energy
22. Ineos
23. GreenFuel
24. Vital Renewable Energy
25. LS9
26. Raven Biofuels
27. Gevo
28. St.1 Biofuels Oy
29. Primafuel
30. Taurus Energy
31. Ceres
32. Syngenta
33. Aurora Biofuels
34. Bionavitas
35. Algenol
36. Verenium
37. Simply Green
38. Carbon Green
39. SEKAB
40. Osage Bioenergy
41. Dynamotive
42. Sustainable Power
43. ETH Bioenergia
44. Choren
45. OriginOil
46. Propel Fuels
47. GEM Biofuels
48. Lake Erie Biofuels
49. Cavitation Technologies
50. Lotus/Jaguar – Omnivore -
