In Washington, DC Biofuels and Beltway Biodiesel, are launching a combined and expanded waste vegetable oil collection, outreach and marketing effort that targets the region’s restaurants, large food service institutions, and others in the NCR. DCB’s facility will be a 7.5 million gallon per year (MGY) state-of-the-art biodiesel production facility capable of producing ASTM D 6751-grade […]
In Oregon, Global Partners LP announced that it has signed an agreement to acquire 100 percent of the membership interests in a West Coast crude oil and ethanol facility near Portland, Oregon from Cascade Kelly Holdings LLC. The total purchase price is expected to be approximately $95 million. The transaction includes a rail transloading facility […]
In North Carolina, BASF is expanding its fungal resistance research platform by adding corn as a target crop. At the same time, research activities in Nutritionally Enhanced Corn will be stopped and the European approval processes for potato products will be discontinued. BASF will continue to focus on the development of crops that deliver higher […]
In Israel, Evogene announced the launch of Gene2Product version 1.0, a unique integrated computational platform for improving trait efficacy by high throughput optimization of gene function in the target crop as part of the development process for biotechnology seed products. Evogene has already entered into agreements to utilize Gene2Product to optimize the performance of certain genes it has discovered […]
In Palmyra, Pacific Biodiesel will supply a second delivery of biodiesel in 2013 for a Nature Conservancy research team on Palmyra Atoll, located in the North Pacific, after first supplying a load of 10,000 gallons in 2011. The Nature Conservancy’s Palmyra Project strives to “conserve unique biological resources on the atoll; supporting scientific research which will […]
Today on Twitter: HuffingtonPost: Asian crop used for biofuels may accelerate climate change, study finds Clyburn: I have an “all of the above” approach to energy policy: wind, solar, natural gas, coal, nuclear, biofuels, hydrogen, efficiency measures. FeedzillaEnergy: Argentina Suspends WTO Complaint After Spain Ends Biofuels Curbs (renewableenergyworld): Share With Friends: | … http://t.co/TC8sajAT SustainableTIGR: […]
In Washington, the Energy Information Administration said that ethanol production averaged 770,000 barrels per day (b/d) — or 33.34 million gallons daily. That is down 22,000 b/d from the week before and is the lowest reported output since EIA began collecting data in 2010. The four-week average for ethanol production stood at 793,000 b/d for […]
In Washington, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing a structured process for buyers of Renewable Identification Numbers (RINs) in order to verify their validity. Under the proposal, RINs would be verified through a new voluntary quality assurance program that also includes alternative compliance options which leverage existing industry practices and market forces. This […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, edged up 0.28 percent to 68.67 as ethanol equities jumped. Amyris (AMRS) rose 3.40 percent to $3.04, while Renewable Energy Group (REGI) surged 4.79 percent to $6.78. Among other equities, Solazyme (SZYM) surged 5.09 percent to $7.85. Overall, declines led advances 8 to 7 […]
Three dissident voices offer challenges to cherished orthodoxies. “When experience is not retained, as among savages, infancy is perpetual. Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” — George Santayana There is an old manuscript, Of Plymouth Plantation, written by an ancestor of mine named William Bradford, that deals with the terrors of […]
