The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, jumped to a 27-month high of 77.43 as equities jumped after the US Federal Reserve revealed plans for a major economic stimulus. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) gained 1.64 percent to $31.56, while Biofuel Energy (BIOF) rocketed up 9.36 percent to $2.22. […]
In yesterday’s Digest, we published some of our own, on the spot conclusions about the impact of this week’s historic US elections on the future of clean energy. Today, we turn it over to you, and reflect what you thought about the message from the voters, and the impact of the change in power and […]
Frontline BioEnergy announced that it plans to suspend operations effective November 12th. The Iowa-based company has spent the past five years developing and commercially demonstrating biomass gasification technologies with broad application in corn ethanol and coal repowering, combined heat and power systems, and production of syngas for advanced biofuels. Over the past year, the company […]
Steve Pittman has been named the new general manager at POET Biorefining – Portland. Cliff Brannon was tapped as general manager at POET Biorefining – Marion (Ohio). Dave Brooks, the former general manager at POET’s Marion, Ohio plant, will become the new general manager at POET Biorefining – Cloverdale (Indiana). Enerkem announced that Methanex CEO […]
In California, AE Biofuels announced its wholly-owned advanced ethanol subsidiary AE Advanced Fuels Keyes, Inc. (AE Keyes), closed a $4.5 million financing with Third Eye Capital Corporation. The funds will be used for the repair, restart and operation of an existing 55 million gallon per year ethanol plant located in Keyes. AE Keyes plans to […]
In Brazil, ADM has announced it will develop a second biodiesel plant that will be built in Joaçaba, Santa Catarina, adjacent to existing ADM soybean crushing and refining facilities. Acquired from Sadia in 1998, these operations can currently process nearly 475,000 metric tons of soybeans and can refine approximately 73,000 metric tons of soybean oil […]
In Denmark, Statoil has introduced E5 at 100 fueling stations across the country becoming the first to commercially supply cellulosic ethanol from wheat straw at the pump. The ethanol is produced by DONG Inbicon’s demonstration facility and uses Novozymes enzymes. More on the story.
EON_Energy: AE Biofuels Secures Funding for Operation of 55 Million Gallon Ethanol Plant MassHighTech: Joshi-founded biofuels startup Altranex, Brown University collaborate on biodiesel processing. Sean_OHanlon: @riggseck I can see Jerry brown being supportive of #biofuels and #Algae but I don’t know about Rick Scott here in Florida. cleantechczar: Don’t despair w/elections: Focus on energy security, […]
In Massachusetts, Altranex Energy has teamed with Brown University to develop biofuels that work well in cold climates. Brown University’s Jason Sello, assistant professor of chemistry at the university, and Aaron Socha, a post-doctoral associate in Sello’s lab, have worked on a solid catalyst-based production process for biodiesel. Together with Altranex they are developing what […]
In Brussels, the European Commission has issued “infringement warnings” against Poland, Hungary, Belgium and Estonia for not having yet submitted their National Renewable Energy Action Plans that were due in June. The other 23 member states have already submitted their NREAPs that outline what policies each countries intends to implement in order to reach the […]
