Agency approves first applications for registration of ethanol to make E15 In Washington, The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency approved the first applications for registration of ethanol for use in making gasoline that contains up to 15 percent ethanol – known as E15. To enable widespread use of E15, the Obama Administration has set a goal […]
In California, Sapphire Energy announced that it has secured the final tranche of a $144 million Series C investment funding. The Series C backers include Arrowpoint Partners, Monsanto, and other undisclosed investors. All major Series B investors have participated. This round of funding is being used to directly support Sapphire Energy’s active and on-schedule commercial […]
In China, Symphony Environmental Tech. and newly formed Super Success International have signed a 20 year exclusive distribution agreement for China. The agreement is for d2w and d2detector technologies. Symphony’s d2w technology uses oxo-biodegradation to change plastic so that it can be bioassimilated in a fashion similar to a leaf in open environments. The CEO […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, gained 0.88 percent to close at 75.89, as large caps recovered. For the day, Amyris (AMRS) fell 5.21 percent to $4.91, while Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) jumped 2.12 percent to $32.33. Among other equities, Monsanto (MON) lifted 2.16 percent to $81.48. Overall, advances led […]
First mile, last mile? Forget it. The next big value opportunities now, as the current generation of bio-technologies head for scale, may be on the nanoscale. Upstream, midstream, downstream. Terminology from the world of oil & gas, but useful for bioenergy too. We broadly understand upstream to mean the world of feedstocks, midstream as the […]
By Mary Rosenthal, Executive Director, Algal Biomass Organization In the past few weeks we’ve seen and heard a lot of chatter about high gas prices, domestic energy and biofuels – algae biofuels in particular. Some took the opportunity to turn President Obama’s support for algae into a liability for him, and the algae industry into […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, was flat at 75.23 despite an advanced biofuels slide. For the day, Amyris (AMRS) fell 2.45 percent to $5.18, while Ceres (CERE) recovered 3.36 percent to $15.99. Among other equities, Verenium (VRNM) jumped 2.98 percent to $4.15. Overall, declines led advances 7 to 5 […]
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In India, Prime and World Health Energy are making progress with their letter of intent to develop a biodiesel production facility ramping up to 250 acres with a budget of up to $100 million. Prime has completed testing of its first batch of Spirulina algae by independent labs that they selected. As a result of […]
Vilsack, Clark, New, Melo, Wolfson, Gruber, Schilling among the headliners as 120 C-level executives and more than 500 delegates converge on DC for Leadership Week. What exactly goes on at a major biofuels summit – what happens on and off the platform when people like Tom Vilsack, Wes Clark, Phil New, John Melo, Jonathan Wolfson, […]
