The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, slipped 0.47 percent to 65.19 as advanced biofuels tumbled. For the day, Amyris (AMRS) dropped 5.08 percent to$2.99, while KiOR (KIOR) shed 8.46 percent to $7.25. Among other equities, Green Plains Renewable Energy (GPRE) gained 2.89 percent to $6.06. Overall, declines led advances 2 […]
Today, we look at a really, really important topic: You. As a bioenergy reader, what influences your thinking, what kind of information are you searching for, how do you respond to messaging, and when, and how? Is media power becoming more diffuse, or more concentrated? In the issues of Biofuels Digest, we almost invariably look at […]
In Florida, Biofuels Digest subscribers have kept Solazyme in the lead in 2012-13 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy balloting, with last year’s winner maintaining a small lead over last year’s #3, Gevo. Amyris, which had dipped to #5, has managed to get back to #4, while Novozymes continues to show a lot of strength in […]
In Washington, biofuels financing guru Mark Reidy was named one of “Washington, D.C & Baltimore’s Top Rated Lawyers—2012” by Legal Leaders for “Business & Commercial”. In California, Jim Woodger joined Solazyme as Associate Director, Upstream Business Development
In Washington, Geoff Cooper at the Renewable Fuels Association reported that ethanol production averaged 785,000 barrels per day (b/d) – or 32.97 million gallons daily. That is down 24,000 b/d from the week before and the lowest rate since EIA began tracking weekly production in June 2010. The 4-week average for ethanol production stood at […]
In Colorado, Gevo said that it has been issued a new patent, US Patent No. 8,273,565, entitled “Methods of Increasing Dihydroxy Acid Dehydratase Activity to Improve Production of Fuels, Chemicals, and Amino Acids.” The new patent covers suppression of a glutaredoxin protein called GRX3. In combination with other Gevo patented technologies, deletion of GRX3 significantly […]
In Washington, the US Department of Energy posted several must-see videos on its website. First, DOE is highlighting algae in its Energy 101 video series. The video shows an algae farm and demonstrates how algae is converted into energy. More specifically, the video discusses algae’s viability to create biofuels. Also, the DOE Biomass Program has […]
In the UK, the Renewable Fuels Association said that the UK biofuels industry “stands to be devastated by draft proposals being developed by the European Commission.” Four elements of the EC proposals are highly problematic, the group warned, including: The proposal to limit crop biofuels to no more than half the 10% target for renewable […]
In South Korea, a team at the Research Institute of Industrial Science and Technology has developed a process to convert sewage sludge into biodiesel, which they say reduces the extraction cost for lipids to as low as $0.03 per liter. The team utilized a heat-based, rather than catalysis-based process for extraction, to overcome the problems […]
In Canada, with funding from Alberta Innovates Bio Solutions, the Biorefining Conversions Network aims to become a hub for bioeconomy investments and a world class centre of excellence for biorefining and biomass conversions. Using a Campus Alberta approach over the next three years, the network will receive $3.8 million for business development and research that […]
