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Jim Lane’s “Citizen Cane: Essays for New Days in Bioenergy” published; free PDF for Digest subscribers

Digest readers: Today,  the new book “Citizen Cane: Essays for New Days in Bioenergy” by Biofuels Digest editor Jim Lane is available in PDF format for subscribers at the usual Biofuels Digest “low, low price of free”.
(Note to web and RSS readers: the book is available free to newsletter subscribers; to sign up and qualify [...]

Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: Reality, and Codexis

REALITY – How Broad is Your Customer Platform?

Bioenergy PROFITS Principle – Reality
Successful companies build core areas of content.  This may be a technology platform or a basic product upon which to expand. This core is the basic element though you may later customize your offerings,
What can you do to deal most effectively with [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: “You Cannot Be Everything For Everyone”

YOU CANNOT BE EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE….

What is growth in your industry?  For most, it is expansion, profitability or some other measures indicating success.  There is usually risk taking involved and the expectation is that this risk will reap rewards in the near future.
Position Only For Growth is essential to growing any business, and [...]

ThermoChem Recovery: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

ThermoChem Recovery International (TRI)
Based in: Maryland
2008-09 ranking: Unranked
Business: Steam reforming gasification. TRI’s medium-BTU syngas can be converted into a wide range of downstream biofuel and biochemical products.  Since 2003, a TRI gasifier has been in commercial-scale operation at Norampac’s Trenton (Ontario) containerboard mill, gasifying black liquor (solid biomass equivalent: 500 dry tons per day).  [...]

The BB Gun – the DOE’s “BB” rating requirement blasts diversity in clean energy development

In Washington, the US Department of Energy is requiring that to receive DOE loan guarantees renewable energy projects meet a debt rating standard higher than 63 percent of all US corporate first-time debt issuers since 2007 in order to qualify for renewable energy loan guarantees. Affected is the Section 1705 loan guarantee program. The section [...]

Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: Testing and Revising, and PetroAlgae

A TIME TO SOW AND A TIME TO REAP

Your company is an organic, living enterprise.  It grows as you grow.
It will also shrink and wither if not tended to.
Though simple in concept, most entrepreneurs struggle with Testing and Revising their business strategies and plans.  Generally, this is one best practice that may is easier [...]

Virent Energy Systems: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profiles

Virent Energy Systems
Based in: Wisconsin
2008-09 ranking: #3
Business: Virent’s patented catalytic BioForming process combines proprietary aqueous phase reforming (APR) technology with established petroleum refining techniques to generate the same range of hydrocarbon molecules now refined from petroleum.
Model: Owner/operator and licensing within strategic relationships
Past milestones:
1. Announced collaboration with Royal Dutch Shell to develop biogasoline.
2. Exceeded technical [...]