All Entries in the "Producer News" Category

ZeaChem commences construction of 250,000 gallon cellulosic ethanol facility: next step, full commercial scale

In Colorado, ZeaChem announced that it has commenced construction of its 250,000 gallons semi-cellulsoic ethanol and chemicals facility that will be located Boardman, Oregon. The company tapped Hazen Research of Golden, Colorado to construct the critical first step of the biorefinery fermentation process. Hazen Research, an industrial research and development firm, will construct and host [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

Challenges Associated with Recovering CO2 from Flue Gas, vs. Concentrated Sources Such as Ethanol: a Biofuels Digest special report

By Biofuels Digest special correspondent Sam Rushing

BACKGROUND

Flue gas is the most prevalent source of CO2 off-gas from all processes globally; among the lion’s share of this flue gas is the ever – present electric power plant, primarily fueled by coal, and then secondly, natural gas. The CO2 found in coal fired power [...]

Algenol: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

Algenol
Based in: Florida
2008-09 rank: #35
Business: Algael fuel developer. Algenol explains that energy from the sun through photosynthesis produces simple sugars inside algae cells which, concurrently with enzymes, produce ethanol. Extremely fast growing algae renews the sugar supply.
Model: Owner-operator and partner.
Past milestones:
In 2008, Biofields CEO Alejandro González Cimadevilla said that the company is targeting  [...]

Sapphire Energy: the making of algae that reproduce strong, last long

Thanksgiving approaches and holiday baking looms – a week when family recipes are swapped and downloaded in huge volumes. In the business of biofuels, one of the more elusive recipes is the one for making commercial-scale, affordable algae as a platform for conversion to biofuels.
But there’s not too much mystery to it. By now, practically [...]

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 [...]

Aurora Biofuels: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy:  Aurora Biofuels www.aurorabiofuels.com
Based in: California
2008-09 Ranking: #30
Business: Aurora burst onto the scene in June 2008 with the announcement that it had raised $20 million in series A financing from Oak Investment Partners, Noventi and Gabriel Venture Partners. Gabriel and Noventi had participated in a seed stage round. Aurora plans to [...]