Here are the winning Photo Votes for the week in this years’s competition for the Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy, Renewable Chemicals & Biomaterials. “There’s nothing like a photo vote to help a company — in the strange and microscopic world of industrial biotechnology — to visualize its creativity, company spirit, and communicate a fun, positive […]
Biofuels 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; […]
Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. We finance alternative energy companies especially in biofuels and chemicals. Tell us about your role and what you are focused on in the next 12 months. In the next twelve months would like to finance $100 million into alternative energy companies with breakthrough […]
The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, plunged 2.56 percent to 65.90 as advanced biofuels, large caps and ethanol stocks were drubbed as all major broad-based indexes plunged on global economy fears. For the day, Renewable Energy Group (REG) dropped 5.14 percent to $9.69, while Abengoa (ABGB) dropped 8.34 percent to […]
Cellulosic ethanol arrives at scale — “The five years away forever” put to rest — but are there troubling waters still ahead? For whom, and why? Part I of II Part II of our story is here. There’s a gigantic disconnect between two sections in the country as to whether the United States should be celebrating […]
Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. We are a law firm dedicated to serving technology, life sciences, energy and other growth enterprises and the institutions that finance them. We started in Silicon Valley more than fifty years ago and now have offices around the world. Our energy practice focuses […]
The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, plunged 2.62 percent to 67.63 as advanced biofuels, large caps and ethanol stocks were drubbed. For the day, Solazyme (SZYM) plummeted 15.05 percent to $6.04 on big volume, while Abengoa (ABGB) dropped 7.13 percent to $21.1. Among other equities, Ceres (CERE) lost 7.43 percent […]
The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, gained 0.64 percent to 69.45 as ethanol equities recovered. For the day, KiOR (KIOR) lost 7.37 percent to $0.09, while BioAmber (BIOA) rallied 9.62 percent to $9.00 Among other equities, Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) jumped 6.95 percent to $12.23. Overall, declines and advances were even […]
“Sneaky E85 pricing strategies…give oil refiners the opportunity to wrongly claim that consumers are ‘rejecting’ E85,” says RFA. In Missouri, the Renewable Fuels Association released a new report highlighting alleged price-gouging in the St. Louis E85 market. In a new case study, the RFA tracked E85 and gasoline (E10) prices at all nine retail stations […]
According to MarketingDegree.net, “Greenwashed” is the way to describe up to 95 percent of “so-called green products”. The organization notes that a 2010 study by Terrachoice revealed that only 265 out of 5296 products were really as a green as they claimed, citing problems such as : 1. No Proof. 2. Hidden Trade-Offs; 3. Smoke […]
