The Top 100 People in Bioenergy for 2012-13, as voted by the readers of Biofuels Digest and the Digest editorial board: 1. Tom Vilsack, US Secretary of Agriculture 2. Jeff Broin, Chairman, Jeff Lautt, CEO, POET 3. Guido Ghisolfi, CEO, Chemtex, Beta Renewables 4. Jonathan Wolfson, CEO, Harrison Dillon President, Solazyme 5. Fred Cannon, PhD, […]
In California, Cereplast announced the commercialization of Cereplast Algae Bioplastics with the introduction of Biopropylene 109D. Cereplast identified a post-industrial algae source, allowing the company to commercialize Cereplast Algae Bioplastics sooner than anticipated. Additionally, Cereplast R&D has discovered a post-industrial process that significantly reduces the odor that is typically inherent to algae biomatter. Biopropylene 109D […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, resumed its Christmas rally, gaining 1.05 percent to a new 8-week high of 64.64. For the day, Algae.Tec (AEB.AX) rose 15.38 percent to $0.30, while Ceres (CERE) surged 5.81 percent to $4.19. Among other equities, Gevo (GEVO) advanced 4.94 percent to $1.70. Overall, advances […]
By: Robert Rapier, Energy Trends Insider Last month KiOR announced the start of production of biocrude from their Columbus, Mississippi plant. KiOR CEO Fred Cannon stated in an earnings call that when the product shipped it would be “the world’s first cellulosic gasoline and diesel fuel products.” While I can immediately think of at least […]
As renewable fuel developers put steel in the ground, oil & gas points to a fossil-based transformation in transportation fuels just “five years away”. The oil & gas and the renewable fuels industries find themselves in unfamiliar waters, as it happens. For years, renewable fuels developers have spoken in terms of the long-term promise, while […]
In Belgium, the European Commission has awarded UPM a grant of €170M for solid wood-based biorefinery (BTL) project in Strasbourg, France. UPM’s Biofuels business resources are currently directed to the construction of the Lappeenranta biorefinery. The company will also continue to clarify the investment prerequisites in Strasbourg. The final assessment on the investment will be […]
In Illinois, Paradigm BioAviation announced plans to build a $120 Million facility in Bloomington-Normal designed to transform municipal solid waste into green electrical power and alternative liquid fuels for the transportation and aviation industries. Construction is slated to begin in 2014, after completing the zoning and EPA permitting process in 2013. Production of green power […]
In Finland, Neste Oil announced that it has joined the Initiative Towards Sustainable Kerosene for Aviation (ITAKA) project, which is being funded by the EU to support the commercialization and use of renewable aviation fuel in Europe. Neste Oil’s role in the consortium will be to produce the renewable fuel used in the project. The […]
In Texas, researchers at Rice University are turning light into heat at the point of need, on the nanoscale, to trigger biochemical reactions remotely on demand. The Rice project led by postdoctoral fellow Matthew Blankschien and graduate student Lori Pretzer combines enzymes from thermophiles with plasmonic gold nanoparticles that heat up when exposed to near-infrared […]
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