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Obama faces uphill battle in bid to pass climate bill before Copenhagen climate treaty finalized
Forbes magazine online has published Oxford Analytica’s analysis that the Obama administration is facing an “uphill battle” to get climate change legislation passed by the US Senate this year, prior to the Copenhagen meeting where a successor treaty to Kyoto will be finalized.
Oxford said that “Obama wants to push a similar bill through the Senate [...]
“The Berkeley Low-Carbon Feminist Collective BioDiesel Oasis” profiled, as co-op restores vintage service station
In California, “The Berkeley Low-Carbon Feminist Collective BioDiesel Oasis” is the title of an entertaining profile of Berkeley’s BioFuel Oasis, that has been running in a converted warehouse space in West Berkeley since 2003.
The worker-owner co-op moved recently to a vintage 1933 service station which they have restored, adding trellises that come with solar panels [...]
Biofuels Digest special report on Colombian, Indian partnership for advanced biofuels
By special correspondent Joelle Brink
While Brazil has long been acknowledged as the world’s largest sugarcane ethanol producer, in only three years a new rival has shot up and is being hailed as a model for the entire ethanol industry. Recently USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) sent a team to South America to investigate differences between [...]
ARPA-E 8-page concept papers for funding requests due June 2
In Florida, K&L Gates partner Fred Greguras, writing in the Bioenergy by Biofuels Digest Linked in group site, reminds readers that “DOE Advanced Research Project Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) concept papers of no more than 8 pages are due June 2. This FOA has created significant interest in the entrepreneurial community because the likelihood of funding can [...]
India’s biodiesel mission on hold due to a problem-laden Greenrush: a Biofuels Digest special report
By Biofuels Digest special correspondent Joelle Brink
Too much of a good thing can sometimes turn into a very bad problem. With nearly one third of the world’s corporate-funded Jatropha biodiesel plantations either in Indian soil or scheduled for planting in the near future, the government is quietly putting its national biodiesel mission on hold.
The cause [...]
Valero to acquire seven VeraSun plants, development site in SD, NE, IA, MN and IN for $477 million; two more plants, $197 million more than initial stalking-horse bid
In South Dakota, Valero Energy will acquire seven plats from VeraSun Energy for $477 million, it was announced last night. VeraSun will receive $350 million for five refineries in South Dakota, Iowa and Minnesota, plus its development site in Indiana. The company will receive an additional $72 million for an additional Iowa plant, and $55 [...]
Jatropha pioneer SG Biofuels and Biofuels Center of North Carolina add to team
In California and North Carolina, low-cost jatropha oil developer SG Biofuels and the Biofuels Center of North Carolina strengthened their respective teams. SG announced that former DOE Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy COO Paul Dickerson and former congressman the Hon. Jerry Weller will join the company’s advisory board, while Steven Burke has become the Biofuels [...]
EIA says renewable energy now 10 percent of US energy production; biomass supplies 50 percent of renewable energy
In Colorado, the Energy Information Administration reported in the latest issue of Monthly Energy Review, that renewable energy now accounts for 10 percent of domestic energy production, and increased by 8 percent between January and October of last year. More than 50 percent of renewable energy in the US is derived from biomass, according to [...]
The Top 10 Biofuels Stories of 2008: a Biofuels Digest special report
2008 was supposed to be the year when biofuels boomed, but producers and developers were under siege all year from a “vast, chicken wing conspiracy” drawn from groups that Daniel Gross, writing in Slate, described as “poverty activists, inflation hawks, efficiency freaks and environmentalists”. He could have added “an aggressive coalition of processed food, meat [...]
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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 -
