In California, Solazyme tells the Digest that it has signed a new deal with the US Navy and Honeywell’s UOP to deliver 150,000 gallons of algal-based biofuel for HRF-76 Renewable Naval Distillate fuel, the primary shipboard fuel used by the Navy. The news follows an initial contract for 20,000 gallons of HRF-76, signed in 2009, […]
In California, the Mendota Advanced Bioenergy Beet Cooperative are developing a $200 million project to produce ethanol, electricity and compressed natural gas from sugarbeet and orchard waste. The area used to supply sugarbeets to Spreckels Sugar but the plant shut down two years ago. They are seeking a state grant of $1.5 million to get […]
In Illinois, analysts are expecting corn prices to rise—making it that much more difficult for ethanol producers to make a profit—due to yield drops thanks to recent hot weather. In the USDA’s most recent estimates last week, it expects the year’s corn ending stocks to fall by 15% to a six-year low of 1.116 billion […]
In Missouri, a biodiesel plant in Lilbourn has been re-born as ME Bio Energy LLC after lying dormant for three years. Production went into full-swing again in mid-July after the EPA approved specs from its first batch. The facility produces 5.2 Mgy of 50/50 animal fat and soybean oil blend biodiesel. More on the story.
In Canada, Rothsay Biodiesel, one Canada’s leading biodiesel producers, and FS PARTNERS, a major distillate distributor within Canada, announced a new partnership to deliver blended biodiesel to Maple Leaf Foods’ fleets in Ontario. This new partnership considerably enhances Rothsay’s blending and distribution capabilities and introduces a highly efficient process allowing for superior control over blending levels. The final blended product will be […]
By Nicole Bleasdale, AusBiotech The sound of the University of Sydney’s Deputy Vice-Chancellor (Research) Professor Jill Trewhella clanging chains against stainless steel was a somewhat unconventionial but nonetheless appropriate way of symbolically marking the accomplishment of a major milestone in the development of biofuels research capabilities in Australia. The last of five integrated biofuels facilities […]
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In California, researchers at the University of Cambridge have studied Arabidopsis plants that lack two of the enzymes that build xylan, one of the main factors that makes lignocellulose rigid and difficult to break down. The next step in the research is to work with miscanthus and other bioenergy crop breeders to see if they […]
In Washington, the National Marine Manufacturers Association is calling on its members to write US President Barack Obama—including personal experience if possible—to oppose Growth Energy’s petition to raise ethanol blending to 15%. The NMMA has long claimed that higher ethanol blends were damaging to boat fleets. More on the story.
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, gained 0.07 percent to 67.16 as biodiesel gains offset ethanol drops. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) fell 1.59 percent to $32.16, while in the oil sector Valero (VLO) 0.35 percent to $17.42. Among other equities, GreenHunter (GRH) 6.85 percent to $0.78. Overall, […]
