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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: Special Voter’s Report on Algae
Algae, algae, algae.
Open up an industry magazine or a website, and there doesn’t seem to be an end to the hope, the hype, and the coverage.
What’s the big deal?
The background
Microalgae is a fast-growing organism that is highly efficient in converting sunlight, CO2 and micronutrients found in water into simple sugars. So efficient, that it stores [...]
DOE Secretary Chu breaks with Obama over energy policy; aviation turns to China for biofuels capacity development
In Washington, the US Secretary of Energy, Dr. Steven Chu, broke with Obama administration renewable energy policy, telling stunned alternative energy developers at a recent meeting on alternative fuels that “if it were up to me, I would put every cent into electric cars,” according to a source present at the meeting.
The Department of Energy [...]
“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 [...]
Today in Biofuels Opinion: “The Bath Activist Network says it has been convinced…policies on launching new biofuel power stations are ethical.”
From This is Bath: A controversial Bath campaign group has called off plans for a protest at the city headquarters of an energy firm. The Bath Activist Network says it has been convinced by information provided by pioneering company Blue-NG that its policies on launching new biofuel power stations are ethical. It had scheduled a [...]
Solix signs R&D agreement with Los Alamos National Lab; targets algae oil extraction technology
In Colorado, algae pioneer Solix Biofuels announced the signing of a Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with the Los Alamos National Laboratory. Under the agreement, Solix will gain access to patented acoustic technology for algal oil extraction, eliminating the requirement for higher-cost solvents such as hexane.
Bryan Willson, Chief Technology Officer of Solix, commented, “The [...]
Indian reservations a potential hotbed for algae-based biofuels: Southern Utes back Solix, show potential
In Utah, the New York Times profiled the role that the Southern Ute Indian Reservation played in taking algae pioneer Solix Biofuels from its lab facilities at Colorado State University to a pilot facility in Southwestern Colorado.
“The Utes chipped in more than $20 million and the land for the project,” according to the Colorado Independent, [...]
Greener Dawn Research releases 90-page algae biofuels report
In California, Greener Dawn Research released its 90-page report on the emerging algae-to-biofuels field. Greener Dawn examines the opportunities and challenges of the nascent industry, and features insight on the eight major algae-to-fuel companies nearing commercialization. The eight profiled companies include Algenol, Aurora, Livefuels, PetroAlgae, Sapphire, Seambiotic, Solix, and Solazyme.
The report addresses the key question – [...]
Solix commences production in Durango trial; Valcent reappears?
In Colorado, Solix Biofuels said that it has commenced production of algal oil at its Coyote Gulch Demonstration Facility, and said that full-scale commercial operation would commence later this summer. The Coyote Gulch farm is on two acres near Durango, on Southern Ute tribal land. Solix said that it expects to reach a production rate [...]
Sugar, Sugar: The transformation of cellulosic ethanol
“Honey, aw Sugar, Sugar,
You are my candy girl, and you’ve got me wanting you.”
The Archies, “Sugar, Sugar”
From the 2008-09 “winter of our discontent” to 2009’s “Summer of Algae,” biofuels have made a remarkable journey in the past six months. But what has become of the former darling of industry dreams — cellulosic ethanol [...]
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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 -
