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The Advanced Bioeconomy Dashboard for 5/18/15: equities, fuels, chemicals, and feedstock prices and data

The Advanced Bioeconomy Dashboard for 5/18/15: equities, fuels, chemicals, and feedstock prices and data

May 17, 2015 |

The Digest’s Dashboard is a convenient “news you can use” 5-Minute summary of current markets including key commodity prices, relevant futures, bioenergy-related stocks, and historical equities data. Latest prices – key commodities. Most recent commodity closing prices, and price changes, for NYMEX’s crude oil, Brent Crude, Ultra-Low Sulphur Diesel, Natural Gas, RBOB gasoline, and Ethylene; ethanol […]

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4 Minutes with…Siegfried Knecht, Chairman, Aviation Initiative for Renewable Energy in Germany

4 Minutes with…Siegfried Knecht, Chairman, Aviation Initiative for Renewable Energy in Germany

May 17, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. aireg was founded in 2011 as a non-profit association to advance the production and use of sustainable alternative aviation fuels. Our goal is to find sustainable substitutes for fossil fuels, thereby cutting GHG emissions substantially. We cooperate internationally with sister organizations like CAAFI […]

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4 minutes with… Thomas J. Murphy, CEO, SR Energy

4 minutes with… Thomas J. Murphy, CEO, SR Energy

May 14, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. We are a mid stage, advanced biofuels technology development company. Our vision is to be a cellulosic sugar supplier to the advanced bio-economy industry. We are developing an integrated bioeconomy technology process plan that is capable of producing a wide array of high […]

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Biofuels Digest Index rebounds to 68.80 despite an advanced biofuels slump

Biofuels Digest Index rebounds to 68.80 despite an advanced biofuels slump

May 14, 2015 |

The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, rebounded 0.39 percent to 68.80 despite an advanced biofuels slump. For the day, Gevo (GEVO) plunged 15.14 percent to $3.85 following a capital raise, while Ceres (CERE) lost 11.29 percent to $2.13. Among other equities, Dyadic (DYAI) rallied 4.95 percent to $1.06. Overall, advances […]

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Low Carbon Transport on the Move: What’s up in Australia?

Low Carbon Transport on the Move: What’s up in Australia?

May 14, 2015 |

Electrics, fuel cell vehicles, smart cars, biofuels for road and sky, and greening the grid come under the microscope Down Under. In Sydney this week, a number of US and Australian leaders gathered at the Australian Technology Park to debate the models and options offered by the cleantech revolution in decarbonizing road transport. “Road transport […]

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4 minutes with… Cory-Ann Wind, Lead Staff Oregon Clean Fuels Program, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

4 minutes with… Cory-Ann Wind, Lead Staff Oregon Clean Fuels Program, Oregon Department of Environmental Quality

May 13, 2015 |

Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. ODEQ is the regulatory agency that oversees the Oregon Clean Fuels Program, Oregon’s version of the low carbon fuel standards. The program’s goal is to reduce the carbon intensity of Oregon’s transportation fuels by 10% between 2016 and 2025. The regulated parties for […]

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Calysta: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide update

Calysta: Biofuels Digest’s 2015 5-Minute Guide update

May 13, 2015 |

Calysta is using biotechnology to create innovative products from sustainable sources. Calysta Nutrition develops and produces FeedKind ™ protein feed for commercial aquaculture and livestock feed. Calysta Energy is developing high value materials for use in industrial and consumer products with cost and performance advantages over current processes. Calysta proprietary technology uses methane as an […]

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Thrive, survive, jive or take five: Who is weathering the $50 oil storm in biofuels, and how?

Thrive, survive, jive or take five: Who is weathering the $50 oil storm in biofuels, and how?

May 13, 2015 |

A period of lower-cost oil has, famously, descended on the market, reminding us that business models should always take into account “black swan” economic events such as the battle between OPEC and unconventional oil producers over some 10% of global market share, which has tumbled oil prices some 20% down, with US currency strength causing […]

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Pacific Ethanol reports Q1 2015 loss of $4.7M as ethanol begins rebound

Pacific Ethanol reports Q1 2015 loss of $4.7M as ethanol begins rebound

May 13, 2015 |

In California, Pacific Ethanol reported a net loss for Q1 2015 of $4.7 million, compared to $11.1 million for the first quarter of 2014. Net sales were $206.2 million forQ1  2015, a decrease of 19% when compared to $254.5 million for Q1 2014. The decline in net sales was attributable to a decrease in the […]

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Gevo reports loss of $7.3M for Q1 3015 as revenues improve

Gevo reports loss of $7.3M for Q1 3015 as revenues improve

May 13, 2015 |

In Colorado, Gevo announced a net loss of $7.3 million for Q1 2015 compared to $12.0 million in Q1 2014. The company ended the first quarter with cash and cash equivalents of $4.4 million, and the exercise of warrants since the beginning of April 2015 is expected to result in net proceeds of $6.2 million. […]

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