In Rhode Island, Clean Energy and Power announced that it has signed an LOI to acquire 100% of the assets of Pacific Oil Products which includes the proprietary technology needed to extract oil from the various oil producing feedstock and the management team that designed the equipment enabling the cost effective commercialization of oil extraction. […]
In Digestville, Solazyme retained its lead in subscriber voting at the end of voting for the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy. LS9, Solazyme and Amyris are tightly bunched at the top of the international selector table. Now, attention turns to recounts, write-ins and combining the results from the invited international selectors and reader voting. “Well, […]
In Texas, Applied Concepts for Energy, subsidiary of NX Global, announced today a joint venture to redevelop at least four former paper and pulp processing plants in the U.S. and Canada. The first plant is a 2,200 acre site in Quebec where we expect to use between 400 and 800 acres to develop what is […]
In Iowa, Iowa Renewable Energy announced its financial results for the 2010 fiscal year ending September 30, 2010. SIRE reported a net loss of $8,951,326, or $681.28 per unit, compared to a net loss of $12,674,976 or $964.68 per unit, during the same period in 2009. For the year ending September 30, 2010, 84% of […]
In Brazil, the Energy Ministry’s expansion plan published this week says the country’s biofuels industry is going to need $38.5 billion between now and 2019 to fund expansion for ethanol and biofuels as a whole. Demand for ethanol will jump 90 percent to 64 billion liters in 2019 with the expansion of flex-fuel vehicles. Brazil […]
In China, China Integrated Energy, a non-state-owned integrated energy company announced that the Company has been recognized as a top provincial High-Tech Research and Development Enterprise by the Shaanxi Provincial Government. As a result of this recognition, the Company’s business in Shaanxi Province will have its corporate income tax exemption extended through the end of […]
Jose_Garibay: Biofuels production has unintended consequences on water quality and quantity in Mississippi ibtimesecon: Africa mulls biofuels as land grab fears grow: Farmers in this iron-roof village in Sierra Leone… wustlengineers: @WUSTL Prof Blankenship @STLonAir speaking about energy & biofuels. Just finished on @stlpublicradio 🙂 OutdoorsBooks: Biofuels in Africa: Prospects for Sustainable Development – by […]
In Ohio, the City of Columbus has initiated a waste cooking oil to fuel program, similar to the San Francisco program we previously reported on October 8, and for pretty much the same reasons. According to Columbus’ website, the program was started because: ” When residents improperly dispose of fats, oils and grease down the […]
In the United Kingdom, researchers at the University of Warwick’s Department of Life Sciences have uncovered the genetic basis of remarkable broad-spectrum resistance to a viral infection, Turnip mosaic virus (TuMV), that, in some parts of the world, is the most important pathogen affecting leafy and arable brassica crops including: brussels sprouts, broccoli, cauliflower, cabbage, […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, slipped 0.18 percent to 73.83 as cellulosic ethanol stocks dived. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) recovered 0.38 percent to $28.99, while Biofuel Energy (BIOF) dropped 6.21 percent to $1.66. Among other equities, Bluefire Renewables (BFRE.OB) plummeted 12.00 percent to $0.44. Overall, declines […]
