Address: 225 Gateway Boulevard, South San Francisco, CA 94080 Year founded 2003 Company description: Solazyme, Inc. is a renewable oil and bioproducts company that transforms a range of low-cost plant-based sugars into high-value oils. Headquartered in South San Francisco, Solazyme’s renewable products can replace or enhance oils derived from the world’s three existing sources – […]
You’ve heard about it, no doubt, the red light district. Filled with today’s temptations and allure, tomorrow’s regrets and OMGs. Biofuels has its own district, too – but Roxanne, you don’t have to put out the red light. In biofuels, feedstocks come in many shapes, phases, and sizes — but only three colors – red, […]
In Florida, with just four days of voting left in the Hot 50 and Hot 30 rankings, OriginOil took the lead in Hot 50 Twitter voting, while Genomatica took the lead for the Hot 30. This year, 10 percent of the overall rankings will be apportioned to Twitter votes – and dozens of companies have […]
In the United Kingdom, Kilfrost has its in-house research and development facilities to create a high performance, bio-derived heat transfer fluid. CooltransSustain CTS is derived from a fully sustainable source, making it a greener alternative to traditional monoethylene glycol and monopropylene glycol-based heat transfer products. CooltransSustain CTS is non-hazardous and can be used at lower […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, recovered 0.27 percent to 64.09 as ethanol escalated. For the day, Renewable Energy Group (REGI) fell 2.17 percent to $5.40, while KiOR (KIOR) dropped 4.35 percent to $5.93. Among other equities, Biofuel Energy (BIOF) jumped 13.13 percent to $7.15. Overall, declines led advances 3 […]
In Florida, Biofuels Digest subscribers have put Gevo into the lead in 2012-13 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy subscriber balloting. Last year’s winner, Solazyme, dipped to second. Novozymes continues to show a lot of strength in reader voting and placed #3 in votes so far. Meanwhile, LanzaTech has made it all the way to #4, […]
Can you have a biofuel without processing an intermediate biomass? Can post-biomass technologies revolutionize fuel and chemical production? Fuels and chemicals can make people mighty uneasy, when you think about them. With fossil fuels, the issues include the uneven distribution of resources and wealth, national security, price and price volatility, and carbon emissions. So along came […]
In Washington, the USDA, in its monthly WASDE report, reduced projected US corn yields to 122.0 bushels per acre, down 0.8 bushels from last month and 25% below spring forecasts. “Lower yields in Illinois are only partly offset by increases for Minnesota and North Dakota,” said the USDA. U.S. corn use for 2012/13 was lowered […]
In Minnesota, the Minnesota Department of Agriculture released a report finding that the state’s ethanol industry generated more than $5 billion in total economic activity in 2011 and supported more than 12,600 jobs, according to a new report from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture (MDA). The state’s 21 ethanol plants have the capacity to produce […]
In Washington, waiving the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) in 2013 could actually result in higher net feeding costs for livestock and poultry producers, the Rnewable Fuels Association said following the release of a Cardno-ENTRIX report on the RFS waiver. The study found that if a waiver of the RFS did reduce biofuel output, trivial corn […]
