The Biofuels Digest Index, an index of publicly traded biofuels stocks, jumped 1.35 percent to 73.69 as Ceres continued to rally and advanced biofuels gained. For the day, Ceres (CERE) jumped 9.23 percent to $4.26 following a favorable analyst report from Raymond James’ Pavel Molchanov, while Biox (BX.T) climbed 8.70 percent to $0.75. Among other […]
In Washington, the Energy Information Administration reports that weekly ethanol production averaged 884,000 barrels per day — or 37.13 million gallons daily. That is down 1,000 b/d from the week before. The four-week average for ethanol production stood at 877,000 b/d for an annualized rate of 13.44 billion gallons. Stocks of ethanol stood at 16.0 […]
In California, Oberon Fuels has received a $500,000 grant from the San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District to produce fuel-grade DME at its facilities in California. Working with its partners, Volvo Trucks in North America and Safeway, Oberon will provide DME produced from biogas for Safeway’s trucking operations. Oberon has developed a patented, skid-mounted, […]
In Missouri, Monsanto announced a new three-year share repurchase program and declared a quarterly dividend. Monsanto’s board authorized a new share repurchase program, effective July 1, for up to $2 billion of the company’s common stock over a three-year period. The new program will commence at the completion of Monsanto’s existing $1 billion share repurchase program, […]
In France, BioAmber announced that the French Autorité des marchés financiers approved BioAmber’s prospectus for admission of its common stock to listing and trading on the Professional Segment of NYSE Euronext Paris, and has granted visa number 13-265, dated June 10, 2013, on the prospectus. BioAmber’s common stock will commence trading on the NYSE Euronext […]
In the United Kingdom, Albion, a venture capitalist, has launched Albion Community Power with plans to raise as much as £100m in the next four years to invest in renewable energy projects. According to an article in reNews, ACP is seek opportunities in biogas, biomass, hydro, solar, and wind – anything with feed in tariffs. […]
In Malaysia, five companies have signed a joint venture cluster agreement to accumulate as much as 1.5 million tonnes of dry oil palm biomass that will be used to produce products such as biofuels, either as ethanol or pellets. An article in the Daily Express lists the companies involved as Bell Group, Golden Elate, Genting […]
In New Zealand, Crown Research Institute Scion and global wood processing giant Sonae Industria Group have signed an agreement that extends Sonae Industria’s exclusive 2011 “Woodforce” licence to commercialize a revolutionary wood fibre technology for polymer reinforcement to North America. Invented by Scion, the technology binds wood fibre in pellet form to produce ‘dice’. The […]
Today on Twitter: kmgupta85 Are biofuels the future of flight? SugarcaneBlog Renewable Biofuels And Chemicals: Scaling Up Is King & Long-game Focus Key – CleanTechnica BreakingEnergy: Are Refiners Quietly Being Put On Notice By Airlines?
In California, UC-Riverside professor Charles Wyman led the development of the book “Aqueous Pretreatment of Plant Biomass for Biological and Chemical Conversion to Fuels and Chemicals.” The book, published by John Wiley & Sons, contains 23 chapters written by experts from throughout the country. The book focuses on aqueous pretreatment of cellulosic biomass to promote sugar […]
