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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 [...]

Bioenergy Profits Principles: Obtaining Vital Information, and cellulosic ethanol

What is it I was Looking For?: PROFITS Principle, Obtaining Vital Information – Part II
Over the next few weeks, Dr. Rosalie Lober, highlights (from her newly released book, Run Your Business like a Fortune 100: 7 Principles for Boosting PROFITS), proven principles to running your business more effectively and illustrates best practices of currently successful [...]

Mascoma / Longyear JV, Frontier Renewable, funds $2 million Michigan research project for biomass logistics

In Michigan, Frontier Renewable Resources, building the state’s first cellulosic ethanol plant in the Upper Peninsula, has provided a $2-million grant designed to strengthen the sustainable wood fiber supply, develop greater efficiencies in the harvest and transportation equipment and processes, and further reduce costs for the cutting edge project. The grant will fund critical research [...]

Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: Obtain Vital Information — looking at Mascoma, Amyris, Virent, LS9 and Qteros

Cellulosic Ethanol – Let me count the ways….
In this new series of articles, Biofuels Digest, takes a more detailed exploration of bioprocessing technology for cellulosic ethanol.  Over the next few installments, Dr. Rosalie Lober, highlights (from her newly released book, Run Your Business like a Fortune 100: 7 Principles for Boosting PROFITS), proven principles to [...]

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 [...]

The song remains the same: Bioenergy producers plea for US help on finance; feedstock stability a key; solutions in the student loan response?

In Washington, USDA Agriculture Undersecretary Dallas Tonsager said in congressional testimony that the credit crunch for advanced biofuels developers has much to do with lender disaffection with first-generation ethanol following the VeraSun bankruptcy, and the upside down economics of the 2008-09 feedstock and fuel markets. He also said that, while two more USDA loan guarantees [...]

Biofuels Heaven or Hell: Hot technologies, deep-pocketed investors and stable feedstock outlook brings promise after tough times

Generally recognized “hot technologies”, deep-pocketed investors, and a plentiful supply of raw material at stable prices: a recipe for growth in almost any industrial sector, but something felt to be elusive in the biofuels sector — with a general feeling that solar and battery technologies had received more attention, investors were hard to find and [...]

Comet Biorefining: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

Comet Biorefining
Based in: Ontario, Canada
2008-09 ranking: Unranked
Business: Comet Biorefining has developed a transformative technology to produce cellulosic sugar from biomass for the production of biofuels and bioproducts. Comet’s cellulosic sugar can be used to produce any biologically derived fuel, including ethanol, butanol, synthetic hydrocarbons, algal fuels.  Comet was founded by Dr. Andrew Richard, former CTO [...]

“Benjamins for Biofuels”: Part I: Who’s getting money now, and how

Today, Biofuels Digest debuts the first article in a series on where the industry is obtaining financing this year — one year after the seizure of Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae, and the collapse of Lehman Brothers, triggered the global financial meltdown.
In part I of the series, we will look at creative financing sources being [...]