In New Jersey, Primus Green Energy has signed on to the Northeast Woody/Warm-season Biomass Consortium (NEWBio) as an industry collaborator, providing technical insight to the group as it develops perennial feedstock production systems and supply chains for biomass feedstocks. NEWBio will focus on the development of four large demonstration projects throughout the Northeast operating at […]
A number of top companies in the sector announced personnel moves this week. In Wisconsin, Virent announced that R. Krug Fenz, Senior Manager, M&A and Commercial Finance, Americas, for Shell Oil Company, has joined its Board of Directors. Mr. Fenz will also serve as a member of the Audit Committee. At A&S Total Cleaning, Roxana […]
In Canada, Enerkem announced that it is partnering with the Université de Sherbrooke to create a leadership and skills development program designed to train Enerkem’s employees and develop its future leaders. The leadership training program was developed with the Centre universitaire de formation continue of the Université de Sherbrooke (CUFC). The mandate of this continuing […]
In Canada, Solutions4CO2 reports that EU countries have an installed base of over 8,000 Anaerobic Digesters (AD) that were developed over the last ten years with the support of government regulation and subsidies. The EU has therefore demonstrated that renewable energy generated from this source of biogas is an attractive alternative to the use of […]
In Germany, the Centre for Environmental Research-UFZ announced that a team of scientists have written in the open access journal “BioRisk,” concerning a proposed framework for a European-wide network for systematic GMO impact assessment (ENSyGMO). The proposed framework aims at improving the regulatory system. Specific elements of the network are a) methodologies for both indicator […]
In the United Kingdom, Croda Europe has agreed to supply the rapeseed-based product for Encos’ first and follow-on plants from the Croda facilities in Hull and Gouda, The Netherlands. A number of other promising binder additives from the Croda range also have been evaluated during extensive laboratory and pilot plant trials. The product from Croda […]
In California, the DOE Joint Genome Institute reports that full repertoire of Agaricus bisporus genes has been determined. In particular, new work shows how its genes are actually deployed not only in leaf decay but also wood decay and in the development of fruiting bodies. Analysis Agaricus turned up several families of well-known sugar-degrading enzymes […]
In California, Attorneys for the California Air Resources Board and a coalition of environmental groups asked the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco to reverse a December 2011 Court ruling that found the law violates the Commerce Clause of the U.S. Constitution by discriminating against out-of-state fuel producers and regulating […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, slid 0.60 percent to 64.72 as advanced biofuels and enzymes fell. For the day, OriginOil (OOIL) fell 5.26 percent to $0.90, while Amyris (AMRS) shed 3.59 percent to $2.95. Among other equities, KiOR (KIOR) waned 6.28 percent to $5.52. Overall, declines led advances 2 […]
28 big balance sheets deploying capital into commercial-scale advanced biofuels. Who’s writing the checks, and for what, and when? It’s become an article of faith among the unenlightened that advanced biofuels are always five years away, and the chief investors are the US Department of Energy and a gaggle of key Obama campaign donors. The […]
