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The Hottest Companies: Cellana Photo Votes for 2014-15

The Hottest Companies: Cellana Photo Votes for 2014-15

October 5, 2014 |

Here are the photo votes received for Cellana in this years’s competition for the Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy, Renewable Chemicals & Biomaterials. More on photo voting in this years’ rankings process, here.

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The Hottest Companies: Avantium Photo Votes for 2014-15

The Hottest Companies: Avantium Photo Votes for 2014-15

October 5, 2014 |

Here are the photo votes received for Avantium in this years’s competition for the Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy, Renewable Chemicals & Biomaterials. More on photo voting in this years’ rankings process, here.

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The Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy: Winning Photo Votes 10/6/2014

The Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy: Winning Photo Votes 10/6/2014

October 5, 2014 |

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 […]

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True energy security

True energy security

October 2, 2014 |

Those of you who have not seen Michael Breen at ABLC earlier this year, or this week at the Algae Biomass Summit, missed out on a pair of very special addresses. We have provided excerpts from his latest address, this at the Algae Biomass Summit. I got my introduction to energy security in my first […]

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Looking at Fermentalg and its 4th-gen algae premise and promise

Looking at Fermentalg and its 4th-gen algae premise and promise

October 2, 2014 |

For those who hadn’t heard that there was a third generation of algae technology going round, it might come as a surprise that there’s a fourth. Let’s go through these, with the caveat that, like children, we are naming these in birth order rather than a ranking based on preference. Something is not necessarily better […]

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4 Minutes with…Steven Fabijanski, President and CEO, Agrisoma

4 Minutes with…Steven Fabijanski, President and CEO, Agrisoma

October 2, 2014 |

Tell us about your organization and it’s role in the Advanced Bioeconomy. We have commercialized a non-food, sustainable crop that provides a high quality oil for diesel and jet fuels, leveraging the existing agriculture infrastructure to achieve scale and economic supply. A drop in crop for agriculture with a good fit for the most challenging […]

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Biofuels Digest Index falls to 8-month low of 70.97 as advanced bio, ethanol nosedive

Biofuels Digest Index falls to 8-month low of 70.97 as advanced bio, ethanol nosedive

October 2, 2014 |

The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, dumped 1.31 percent to an 8-month low of 70.97 as advanced biofuels and ethanol equities continued to nosedive. For the day, Gevo (GEVO) lost 5.25 percent to $0.31, while Green Plains (GPRE) dropped 5.81 percent to $33.25. Among other equities, Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) shed […]

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State of the Algae Industry: 10 Top-Level commercial leaders look at the path to scale

State of the Algae Industry: 10 Top-Level commercial leaders look at the path to scale

October 1, 2014 |

10 leaders, 10 enterprises, 10 paths to scale — what’s really key to making algae a commercial crop for feed, fuel and pharma, soon? This week at the Algae Biomass Summit, a pair of key sessions featured 10 of the leading companies in the algae sector: Paul Woods, CEO, Algenol Jason Kolb, VP, Algix Tim […]

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ARPA-E announces $30M funding opportunity for energy crop development

ARPA-E announces $30M funding opportunity for energy crop development

October 1, 2014 |

In Washington, the Advanced Research Projects Agency (Energy) announced a $30 million funding opportunity entitled Transportation Energy Resources from Renewable Agriculture, or TERRA. ARPA-E is making up to $30 million available for the TERRA program to develop automated, predictive and systems-level approaches to enable the quick and easy identification of traits that can be leveraged […]

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Governors urging Obama Administration on RFS: protect consumer choice, jobs, and reduce dependence on foreign oil

Governors urging Obama Administration on RFS: protect consumer choice, jobs, and reduce dependence on foreign oil

October 1, 2014 |

Illinois Governor Pat Quinn and Iowa Governor Terry Branstad, chairman and vice chairman of the Governors’ Biofuels Coalition, sent a letter urging the Obama Administration to ensure the development of domestically produced renewable fuels by amending EPA’s proposed RFS levels for 2014 so consumers have real choices at the fuel pump. The Honorable Shaun Donovan […]

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