In Missouri, Midwest Biodiesel Products LLC (also known as St Louis Biofuels LLC) has received a $300,000 loan from the St. Louis Business Development Fund and St. Louis Private Fund that will be used to rehire laid-off workers and buy soybean and vegetable oil. The company’s $8 million, 12,000-square-foot facility was built in 2006 in […]
In California, underwriting sources have revealed that Amyris Inc. will raise $84.8 million in its initial public offering of its common stock, pricing at $16 per share, well below its expected range of $18-$20 per share. Overall, the IPO placed an overall valuation on the company of $680.6 million, according to the plan of shares […]
In part V of our series today, we start to add even more exotic technologies when we look at algae-based options, and other CO2 munching technologies that will help us create renewable fuels from the CO2 we are producing as a byproduct, adding economic strength as well as reducing our carbon footprint. The Backstory. Part […]
In Mississippi, BlueFire Renewables (BFRE.OB), announced a 15-year contract with Cooper Marine & Timberlands to provide feedstock for BlueFire’s 19 Mgy cellulosic ethanol project in Fulton. Under the agreement, Cooper Marine & Timberlands will supply BlueFire with locally sourced wood chips, forest residual chips, pre-commercial thinnings, construction waste, storm debris, land clearing, and wood waste […]
GSCCorp: NightHawk, BioFuels: Volume Movers: NightHawk and BioFuels Energy are among stocks trading on above-average volume… http://bit.ly/cHzZmQ ArgusBiofuels: Proposed automobile GHG rules near release #biofuels ethreporter: Trans-Atlantic #biofuels flight completed. Warof2010: Corn prices r up 30-40% in the last 3 months; using a food staple to produce low energy ethanol was always an idiotic idea. […]
In Kenya, Mumias Sugar Company plans to start production of ethanol from sugarcane by the end of 2011. The plant is expected to produce about 22 million liters of ethanol per year that will be sold primarily to the East African Community and COMESA member states. The project includes electricity co-generation, and the company is […]
In Sweden, ethanol producer Sekab and Swedish technology specialist Taurus Energy will begin a two-month trial on ethanol production from corn waste next month in partnership with two Swedish universities, Chalmers University of Technology and Lund University. The trial involves development of improved yeast strains and more intensive sugar extraction that is expected to lead […]
In Italy, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) published a new report on Indirect Land-Use Change (ILUC), which has become a hot debate topic surrounding the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive, that establishes a 10% target for renewable energy in transport fuels by 2020, and its Sustainability Criteria. The report was published the same day […]
In Brussels, the European organization of farmers’ associations, Copa-Cogeca, sent a letter to the European Commission highlighting the crucial role of biofuels in reducing EU oil dependency and greenhouse gas emissions, but warned that schemes to verify the sustainability criteria for biofuels and bioliquids under the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive may not be implemented in […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, edged down 0.06 percent to 68.70 on foreign declines. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) rebounded 1.15 percent to $32.64, while Biofuels Energy (BIOF) soared 32.14 percent to $2.22 on news of a new bridge loan. Among other equities, Monsanto (MON) plunged 4.17 […]
