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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 [...]

REG releases 36-feedstock biodiesel characteristic study – largest feedstock set yet analyzed

In California, Renewable Energy Group released results from a 36 feedstock study — the biodiesel industry’s largest feedstock comparison research report at the Next Generation Biofuels conference in San Francisco yesterday.
The “Biodiesel and Feedstock Characteristics Report” showcases benchmarks for traditional and unique oils and fats as well as resulting biodiesel characteristics for 36 feedstock including [...]

50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy: Special Voter’s Report on Algae – company updates

PetroAlgae is making fuel and proteins out of lemna (duckweed) in Fellsmere, and is nearing completion of a vertically integrated, scaleable, licensable 5-6,000 gallon per acre microcrop production system. A first master licensee has been announced for China, Taiwan and part of Japan. More on petroalgae at biofuelsdigest.com.
Sapphire Energy said the pace of algae commercialization [...]

50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy: voting underway

This week, subscribers can begin to cast 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 download your free copy of the Selectors Data Book for Digest subscribers – including 230 [...]

Subscriber voting opens in 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy; UOP, Amyris, Coskata lead in early-stage balloting

Today, subscribers can begin to cast 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.
All subscribers to Biofuels Digest, Biomass Digest and Geothernmal Digest e-newsletters are eligible to vote. (Subscriptions are [...]

Jet Plains, Part II: Doers, Done, and the DOE in renewable jet fuel

Elsewhere in today’s Digest, comments from Solazyme CEO Jonathan Wolfson and the DOE’s Valerie Reed confirm an increasingly laser-like focus on renewable aviation fuels from the advanced biofuels community. Here are some developments in renewable, drop-in aviation fuels from biomass also highly worth noting.
US Air Force
The Air Force has announced that it will construct a [...]

Solazyme: “By focusing on the diesel and jet side, we’re focusing on the things that have to be around.”

In California, the Digest visited with 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate company Solazyme (ranked #6 in last year’s poll), and CEO Jonathan Wolfson offered an update on the algae-based renewable oils company’s most recent activities.
“By this stage, we worked with almost everything in terms of feedstocks – bagasse, miscanthus, green waste, soft woods. One [...]

Jet Plains: Do grasses, woods, mustards grown in the heartlands hold the key for aviation fuels?

Ceres, ViaSpace, Sustainable Oils, Solazyme are among R&D leaders aiming to turn America’s heartland into a high-tech advanced biofuels playground of energy grasses and camelina for advanced transportation biofuels and aviation fuel.
“I fully expect that in the future,” said Solazyme CEO Jonathan Wolfson, “that I will make my daily 15-mile commute in a car that [...]

Synthetic Genomics: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

Synthetic Genomics
Based in: California
2008-09 rank: 19

Business: Synthetic biology and algal fuel developer.
Model: R&D partner
Past milestones:
ExxonMobil, the last of the oil majors to commit to a major investment in biofuels, announced that its Research and Engineering unit will invest $300 million into in-house algae research, and up to an additional $300 million in La [...]