Author Archive: Jim Lane

rss feed

The Advanced Bioeconomy Dashboard for 7/7/14: equities, fuels, chemicals, and feedstock prices and data

The Advanced Bioeconomy Dashboard for 7/7/14: equities, fuels, chemicals, and feedstock prices and data

July 6, 2014 |

About The Digest Dashboard. 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, […]

Read More

Why Opposing the RFS Is Bad for Our National Security and Our Economy

Why Opposing the RFS Is Bad for Our National Security and Our Economy

July 3, 2014 |

By Brent Erickson Executive Vice President and Head, Industrial & Environmental Section, The Biotechnology Industry Organization Big oil companies and refiners continue the drumbeat against the RFS, even in the face of more Middle East military conflict, political instability and higher gas prices that are a result of the turmoil overseas. Amidst heavy lobbying efforts […]

Read More

EPA adds biogas-based fuels to RFS, delays action on advanced biobutanol

EPA adds biogas-based fuels to RFS, delays action on advanced biobutanol

July 3, 2014 |

In Washington, the EPA qualified additional fuel pathways for cellulosic biofuel under the National Renewable Fuel Standard program. This final rule also provides guidance regarding the feedstocks that EPA considers to be crop residues, including clarification that EPA considers corn kernel fiber to be a crop residue. Unsurprisingly, crop residues won the EPA’s OK — […]

Read More

Biofuels Digest Index edges up to 82.07 as ethanol equities advance

Biofuels Digest Index edges up to 82.07 as ethanol equities advance

July 3, 2014 |

The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, edged up 0.44 percent to 82.07 as ethanol equities gained.  For the day, BioAMber (BIOA) shot up 5.00 percent to $10.50, while Ceres (CERE) gained 3.92 percent to $0.74. Among other equities, Renewable Energy Group (REGI) was up 2.19 percent to $11.84. Overall, advances […]

Read More

Joule’s quest for fuels from CO2, sunlight and water

Joule’s quest for fuels from CO2, sunlight and water

July 3, 2014 |

Can it really be done? A Tony Stark-like quest for fuels and chemicals secreted by a microbe that lives on a diet of CO2, water and sunlight? We look anew at Joule’s quest, and its progress.  From Massachusetts, word arrived from Joule this week that the EPA has favorably reviewed the company’s Microbial Commercial Activity Notice for Joule’s […]

Read More

Biofuels Digest Index gains to 81.71 as advanced biofuels jump

Biofuels Digest Index gains to 81.71 as advanced biofuels jump

July 2, 2014 |

The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, gained 0.71 percent to 81.71 as advanced biofuels jumped. For the day, Amyris (AMRS) surged 5.63 percent to $3.94, while Ceres (CERE) gained 3.19 percent to $0.71. Among other equities, Dyadic (DYAI) dropped 2.86 percent to $1.70. Overall, advances led declines 6 to 5 […]

Read More

The Greensome Foursome: POET, Novozymes, Abengoa, NexSteppe on the industry outlook for 2014

The Greensome Foursome: POET, Novozymes, Abengoa, NexSteppe on the industry outlook for 2014

July 1, 2014 |

As several major cellulosic biofuels ventures head for scale in 2014, we look at the companies, the major barriers (as they see them) for further capacity-building, sources for future investment, and a focus on feedstock. In California, NexSteppe CEO Anna Rath, Novozymes North American president Adam Monroe, POET VP Doug Berven, and Abengoa Bioebnergy EVP […]

Read More

Quad County Corn Processor produces Iowa’s first cellulosic biofuels at scale

Quad County Corn Processor produces Iowa’s first cellulosic biofuels at scale

July 1, 2014 |

In Iowa, the first ever gallons of commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol produced in Iowa flowed from Quad County Corn Processor’s distillation unit this week, according to the Iowa Renewable Fuels Association. This marks the commissioning of the farmer-owned ethanol plant’s Adding Cellulosic Ethanol (ACE) project, a new “bolt-on” process that adds the capability to convert the […]

Read More

Biofuels Digest Index gains to 81.13 as advanced biofuels recover

Biofuels Digest Index gains to 81.13 as advanced biofuels recover

July 1, 2014 |

The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, gained 0.62 percent to 81.13 as advanced biofuels recovered.  For the day, Ceres (CERE) lifted 3.56 percent to $0.69, while Aemetis (AMTX) jumped 6.92 percent to $10.20. Among other equities, OriginOil (OOIL) dropped 9.52 percent to $0.19. Overall, advances led declines 3 to 2 […]

Read More

Pebbles into boulders: Heliae takes its algae technology to Japan in JV with Sincere Corporation 

Pebbles into boulders: Heliae takes its algae technology to Japan in JV with Sincere Corporation 

July 1, 2014 |

Heliae partners with Sincere Corporation for algae production venture to meet Japanese market demand for sustainable ingredients  In Arizona, Heliae announced a joint venture with top Japanese waste management and recycling company, Sincere Corporation, to develop a commercial algae production facility in Saga City, Japan. The joint venture has been named Alvita Corporation, and will […]

Read More

« Previous Page — Next Page »
}