Osage Bioenergy: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

Osage Bioenergy
Based in: Virginia
2008-09 rank: 40
Business: Barley ethanol producer
Model: Owner-operator
Past milestones:
Osage Bio Energy (OBE) was formed in January 2007 to build market- based ethanol plants on the East Coast. Each plant will employ proven bio-processing technologies and carries a capital investment of over $150 million.
OBE plants will be optimized around local, winter [...]

November 19, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

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 [...]

November 02, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

Osage Bioenergy partners with Perdue to source barley for 65 Mgy Virginia ethanol plant

In Virginia, Osage Bio Energy announced that it has partnered with Perdue AgriBusiness to obtain feedstock for its 65 Mgy barley ethanol plant in Hopewell. The company is seeking 28 million bushels of barley per year, and will produce 170,000 tons of barley meal and 50,000 tons of fuel pellets in addition to fuel, according [...]

August 10, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

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 [...]

August 07, 2009 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

The Hottest 50 Companies in Bioenergy

The Hottest 50 Companies in Bioenergy, as ranked by Biofuels Digest for 2008-09 are:
(click on links for a collection of recent profiles and stories on each company)
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 [...]

December 22, 2008 | Jim Lane | Comments 4

Osage Bio Energy to break ground on 65 Mgy ethanol plant, largest in US using barley as feedstock

In Virginia, Osage Bio Energy announced that it will break ground next month on its Appomattox Bio Energy plant, a 65 Mgy barley ethanol plnt that will be the largest in the US using barley as a feedstock. Barley is a winter crop that can be double cropped with soybeans, and produces a high quality [...]

September 25, 2008 | Jim Lane | Comments 1

Today in Biofuels: Key climate change conference opens in Bali, as Canada ups biofuels support and Case approves B100 for eight tractor brands

Top Story:
The UN Conference on Climate Change in Bali, Indonesia opens today. Participants at the week long conference hope to frame a successor to the 1997 Kyoto Accords, which expires in 2012. The leading greenhouse gas emitter, China, was exempted from the Kyoto agreement and the second-largest, the US, did not sign. The third-largest emitter, [...]

December 03, 2007 | Jim Lane | Comments 0

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