In Washington, the White House announced up to $35 million over three years to support research and development in advanced biofuels, bioenergy and high-value biobased products. The projects funded through the Biomass Research and Development Initiative (BRDI) – a joint program through the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Energy Department – will help […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, was flat at 74.49 as KIOR gains offset broader declines. For the day, KiOR (KIOR) soared 15.08 percent to $10.76, while Gevo (GEVO slipped 0.64 percent to $9.30. Among other equities, Verenium (VRNM) fell 4.67 percent to $1.00. Overall, declines led advances 10 to […]
Yield unlocks value, and especially feedstock yield. What’s the latest? What feedstocks are reporting yields that could support 1000+ gallons per acre for terrestrial crops? It was President Kennedy’s favorite poem, Tennyson’s Ulysses, with its stirring coda: We are not now that strength which in old days Moved earth and heaven, that which we […]
In Washington, the US Department of Agriculture is kicking off Biofuels Leadership Week a few days early, with a “match making day” to promote connections between agricultural producers of energy feedstocks (and their related businesses) with biorefiners, scheduled for Friday, March 30. Officials from the U.S. Department of Navy, U.S. Department of Energy, and the […]
In the Netherlands, Avantium announced a Joint Development Agreement for the development of PEF bottles with Danone Research. Based on the YXY technology, the Avantium and Danone Research joint objective is to contribute to the emergence of a new renewable material generation which will not be in direct competition with food. YXY is used as […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, was flat at 74.58 as advanced biofuels gains offset ethanol declines. For the day, Ceres (CERE) retreated 5.46 percent to $16.27, while Gevo (GEVO jumped 4.82 percent to $9.36. Among other equities, Aventine Renewables (AVRW) fell 7.14 percent to $3.25. Overall, declines and advance […]
In California, SG Biofuels has expanded its science team with the addition of Benito Juarez as director of breeding. Juarez joins SGB’s breeding and biotechnology team as it ramps its global development and deployment of improved hybrid varieties of Jatropha.
If the long-term is green, and the present is based on carbon-intense “black” technologies – the near term is going to be shades of olive, and technologies that combine green and black may be the big winners. Today, 5 strategies at the nexus of green and black, exemplars of the Olive Economy A couple of […]
In Canada, EcoSynthetix announced that after a significant product qualification process it has received a commercial order for EcoSphere biolatex binders from one of the top 5 insulation manufacturers in the United States for use in a line of formaldehyde-free insulation products. This industry-specific grade of EcoSphere binds together the individual fibres of fibreglass insulation […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, fell 0.98 percent to 74.60 as biodiesel, advanced biofuels slumped. For the day, Ceres (CERE) retreated 1.77 percent to $17.21, while Verenium (VRNM) jumped 6.69 percent to $3.19. Among other equities, Solazyme (SZYM) fell 2,20 percent to $15.10. Overall, declines led advance 5 to […]
