In the annual rankings, voters reward commercial deployments at scale, key figures in deployment of alternative fuels, and pioneers in renewable chemicals. International leaders gain. In Florida, US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack headed the “Top 125 People in the Advanced Bioeconomy” rankings as nominated and voted by the readers of The Digest and the […]
Neste Oil is a refining and marketing company, with a production focus on premium-quality, lower-emission traffic fuels. The company produces a comprehensive range of major petroleum products and is the world’s leading supplier of renewable diesel. The company had net sales of EUR 17.5 billion in 2013 and employs around 5,000 people. Neste Oil’s share […]
Tell us about your company and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. Our company has been established with one goal in mind and that is to produce and supply the local market with a quality bio diesel product which has been eagerly awaited for by the industry. Tell us about your role and what you […]
The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, dipped 1.08 percent to 60.34 as advanced biofuels dropped. For the day, Gevo (GEVO) fell 5.54 percent to $0.26 on news of a dilutive cap raise, while BioAmber (BIOA) jumped 11.45 percent to $8.86. Among other equities, Amyris (AMRS) retreated 7.18 percent to $1.88. […]
Cool Planet is a technology company that is developing sustainable products to address three of the world’s largest markets: energy, food and water. Currently they are commercializing a technology to create drop-in green fuels and biochar in a way that can change the world for good. The green fuels are chemically identical to fossil fuels […]
Following just one day after a big win in the Supreme Court and a corporate update last week, Gevo announced that it intends to offer and sell, subject to market and other conditions, common stock units. Each common stock unit will consist of one share of common stock, Series A warrants to purchase a certain […]
More government support! It’s the cry of many advanced biofuels supporters. But what about “Less Government Red Tape?!$%#@” That gets less attention than it deserves, says a recent sector overview. The Digest investigates. Why must “the entire value chain of production from feedstock to finished product be conducted at a single location” asks Antoine Schellinger, […]
If you remember the old Hammacher-Schlemmer Christmas catalogues, they were filled with pages and pages of The ONLY this, the ONLY that, and the BEST that. But sometimes, along comes a product that’s worth the hype — and we’re told by the Digesterati that’s here’s one. “Bioenergy: Biomass to Biofuels” “Bioenergy: Biomass to Biofuels” by […]
Gevo has two proprietary technologies that combine to make it possible to retrofit existing ethanol plants to produce isobutanol, a four carbon alcohol which serves as a hydrocarbon platform molecule. We have developed a robust industrial scale yeast biocatalyst to produce isobutanol without typical byproducts operating at parameters equivalent to commercial ethanol producers. The second […]
“The short-term picture of a well-supplied oil market should not disguise the challenges that lie ahead as reliance grows on a relatively small number of producers,” warns the International Energy Agency. Why all the gloom amidst boom times for energy supply? Turns out, right around the corner, rising demand will challenge supply all over again. […]
