In South Dakota, SGS Agricultural Services along with Weaver and Tidwell will combine service offerings to the biofuels industry that will provide a total RINs management and plant production verification solution that includes fuel quality monitoring as related to RFS2 RIN and Renewable Fuel Producer assurance. Under this new business relationship, Weaver will offer its […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, lost 0.73 percent to 66.85 as ethanol dropped. For the day, The Andersons (ANDE) shed 3.78 percent to $47.84, while Solazyme (SZYM) rebounded 3.35 percent to $10.17. Among other equities, Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) fell 2.27 percent to $0.86. Overall, declines led advances 2 to […]
Good biofuels technologies face crushing challenges in their timelines – why not intensively study and compress the process of industrial commercialization? “Interest never sleeps nor sickens nor dies; it never goes to the hospital; it works on Sundays and holidays; it never takes a vacation; it never visits nor travels; it takes no pleasure; it […]
In California, Solazyme, announced Q1 revenues of $13.6 million compared with $7.7 million in the first quarter of 2011. First quarter GAAP net loss attributable to Solazyme, Inc. common stockholders was $16.8 million, which compares with net loss attributable to common stockholders of $7.3 million in the prior year period. During the quarter, the company […]
In Belgium, Rhodia and the National Bioethanol Science and Technology Laboratory (CTBE) in Brazil have signed an agreement to develop chemical routes and processes to obtain molecules of a high added value from sugarcane biomass, in what is known as bio-based chemistry. Under the agreement, research will be conducted at CTBE, backed by researchers from […]
In Canada, the Global Renewable Fuels Alliance and Cardno Entrix reported that the biofuels industry contributed $277.3 billion to the global economy in 2010. The figures headlined a new report, “Contribution of Biofuels to the Global Economy”, released yesterday by the groups. According to the report, global biofuel production produced 110 billion litres in 2010 […]
In California, Samir Kaul resigned from the Board of Directors of Amyris, effective immediately, and the Board simultaneously appointed Geoffrey Duyk, a partner of TPG Biotech, and a director of the Company from May 2006 to May 2011.
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, was flat at 67.34 as advanced biofuels dropped sharply. For the day, Gevo (GEVO) shed 4.41 percent to $7.81, while Solazyme (SZYM) fell 2.38 percent to $9.84. Among other equities, Amyris (AMRS) plummeted 9.52 percent to $2.47. Overall, declines and advances were even for […]
Is evidence mounting that advanced biofuels companies need to tout their defensive schemes as much as their offense? Markets jitters suggest so. Kevin Quon wrote recently in Seeking Alpha, “the most essential attribute to the fuels market is the ability to scale the technology to the desired level needed.” Well put. In biofuels terms, that’s […]
By Tabby Waqar Research Assistant, The Methanol Institute There are several different types of subsidies which include direct financial transfers like loans, depletion allowances and preferential tax treatments like the farm credit subsidy and the Alternative Fuel Vehicle Refueling Property Credit. The government grants subsidies to, either, stabilize the economy and encourage increased production, or both. […]
