In Washington, the Department of Defense has awarded $210 million under the Defense Production Act to Emerald Biofuels, Fulcrum BioEnergy and Red Rock Bio towards the construction of biorefineries that produce cost-competitive, drop-in military biofuels. Under the grants, the companies will build biorefineries to produce military spec fuel that is expected to cost the US military, on […]
The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, dropped 0.35 percent to 76.78 as ethanol equities continued to fall. For the day, Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) dipped 1.31 percent to $16.61, while Green Plains (GPRE) dumped 3.40 percent to $38.04. Among other equities, Gevo (GEVO) plunged 14.70 percent to $0.35. Overall, declines and […]
In Colorado, Gevo reported an update on the progress of the Side-by-Side operational mode of its plant in Luverne, MN. In the beginning of June, Gevo commenced the co-production of isobutanol and ethanol, with one fermenter dedicated to isobutanol production and three fermenters dedicated to ethanol production. With the completion of the last phase of […]
In today’s Digest, we published an important column by longtime contributor Douglas Faulkner, the former acting Undersecretary of Agriculture and a former Assistant Secretary of Energy, titled “The Renewable Fuel Standard: Mend It AND End It.” In his column, Faulkner begins by citing the competing and buffeting political winds around the RFS — from the […]
By Douglas L. Faulkner, “The Cleantech Conservative” President Clinton gave a major speech in defense of affirmative action in 1995 entitled, “Mend It, Don’t End It”, an easily-remembered and clear summary of his policy approach. So, to borrow a pitch and reformat the goal, my recommendations for fixing the current Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS) work […]
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Declining gasoline demand, blend walls, lack of blender pumps, a fight over E15 ethanol, food vs fuel — it all looks pretty dire for the US Renewable Fuel Standard target of 36 billion gallons of renewable fuel by 2022. Or does it? Does the key to making everyone happy lie 8 miles high, in the aviation sector? […]
You have to cheer on a guy who uses part of his entry on “favorite mentors” to cheer on the team behind the Large Hadron Collider (who found the famed Higgs boson in 2013), who hails from one of the most enthusiastic small towns in the entire Advanced Bioeconomy (Blair, Nebraska), and is a Navy […]
The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, dropped 1.12 percent to 77.05 as ethanol equities tanked anew. For the day, Aemetis (AMTX) fell 4.69 percent to $8,54, while Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) sank 10.29 percent to $16.83. Among other equities, Green Plains (GPRE) fell back 5.36 percent to $39.38. Overall, declines led […]
It’s hard to make a valuable molecule out of low-value biomass. And even harder to make money out of it. What are the rules of the road, as understood by those who have dared, and done it, and lived to tell the tale? So, the Biofuels Digest Index is up 10 percent since May, but it’s […]
