In California, SG Biofuels announced it has completed a $9.4 million Series A financing with proceeds from Koch subsidiary Flint Hills Resources, Life Technologies Corporation and participation from existing investors. The company also confirmed previous reports that Life Technologies had invested in the company in Q4 of last year in a seed round. The financing […]
In Massachusetts, Joule Unlimited has won a second key patent for its genetically modified cyanobacteria that directly convert sunlight and carbon dioxide into n-alkanes, and other diesel fuel molecules. The patent is the first awarded for a bacteria that makes fuel directly from water, sunlight and CO2, as opposed to organisms that make fuels from […]
By Direct special correspondent Sam A. Rushing Perhaps the newfound trend with respect to carbon dioxide (CO2) will be various forms of recycling of this greenhouse gas and gas commodity. There has been a great deal of press associated with new start up companies which propose using CO2 from virtually all source types for the […]
In California, the company formerly known as Aurora Biofuels has confirmed its emergence as Aurora Algae, as previously reported in the Digest. The company also said that it is now transitioning from a pilot technology development to full-scale commercialization of the Company’s proprietary algae products, including high concentration eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA Omega-3 fatty acids), high-density […]
In Panama, Agro2 announced that it has received funding from the FACT Foundation and the Dutch Ministry of Economic Affairs for a project to produce cassava-based ethanol at a demonstration plant in Veraguas. The Agro2 project aims to collaborate with farmers and NGOs to explore the feasibility of cassava as a biofuels feedstock, using a […]
In the UK, a committee appointed by the Energy and Climate Ministry has recommended cutting back the government’s 10 percent renewables target (for 2020) to 8 percent, citing that the sustainability impacts are too high. Currently, the national target is a 2.5 percent biofuels component in transportation fuels. The committee also recommnded slashing the target […]
Last Thursday, the Digest published an article entitled “25 people worth knowing”, profiling 25 speakers who will be speaking at the upcoming Advanced Biofuels Markets conference in San Francisco. It was “25 people worth knowing” rather than a ranking-style “the Top 25 people worth knowing”, but the flood of mail that arrived in the Digest’s […]
In Florida, Biofuels Digest reports that 83 percent of bioenergy executives are more optimistic about their organization’s prospects for growth today than 12 months ago, and that 69 percent are more optimistic about the industry’s prospects for growth today than 12 months ago. The findings were among the highlights of the Fall 2010 Bioenergy Business […]
By now, Digest readers have all seen the promotions for our upcoming Advanced Biofuels Markets in San Francisco this November 9-10, which we are presenting in partnership with Greenpower Conferences. (More information on the conference, here) Whenever I look at one of the many, many conference agendas that drift across the Digest’s editorial desk, I […]
In California, Solazyme announced that Unilever has joined its Series D financing round. The strategic investment by Unilever adds to the previously announced Series D round, which has brought in a murderer’s row of strategic investors and VC into what is increasingly being seen as a breakout platform for renewable oils produced from microalgae. The […]
