The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, slipped 0.66 percent to 69.41 as advanced biofuels tumbled. For the day, KiOR (KiOR) sank 3.23 percent to $4.50, while Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) fell 8.82 percent to $0.31. Among other equities, Solazyme (SZYM) shed 3.46 percent to $7.53. Overall, advances led declines led advances […]
Crop yield and oil content increases of up to 50% and 34% seen from ZeaKal’s HME technology. Though in early days — what’s going on? Last week, ZeaKal announced that it had raised $3.8 million in its Series A financing. A successful Series A is always a good indication that, while it is early days […]
Determined to make up for a crop that was adversely affected by historic drought last year, U.S. farmers intend to plant a record-high combined 174.4 million acres of corn and soybeans in 2013, according to the Prospective Plantings report released today by the National Agricultural Statistics Service. If realized, corn will represent the highest planted […]
In England, Nexant, as a co-sponsor of the recent Fifth World Bio-Based Chemicals Conference in Rotterdam, led discussions with key bio-based chemical industry participants on topics ranging from pending product launches to achieving commercial-scale production and financing in the current global marketplace. “One of the key aspects emerging from our industry dialogue was that North […]
Today on Twitter: NoWarNow2011: Report demonstrates developing advanced #biofuels are important .. http://t.co/5LriZdbi9J BerkeleyLab: Making do w/ more: @jbei_ researchers engineer plant cell walls to boost sugar yields for #biofuels BioEnergNet Advanced biofuels are vital for the future but commercial plants are yet to appear; framework condition for investors are required algaebiofuels Biofuel Made From Marine Filter […]
Researchers unleash the prospect of fuels from the raging fireball known as Pyrococcus furiosus. Imagine a world where instead of creating CO2 as an emission from burning fuels, you could make fuels from the emissions, the CO2. And could do so in a way that bypasses the production of biomass and the extraction of fermentable […]
In Washington, the Renewable Fuels Association debuted a new analysis conducted by Informa Economics, Inc. that found that the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and its associated “RIN credits” have not been a factor in this spring’s higher retail gasoline prices. The analysis, commissioned by RFA, found RINs are likely contributing no more than $0.004 (four-tenths […]
In Washington, the US Energy Information Administration said that US ethanol production averaged 805,000 barrels per day (b/d) — or 33.81 million gallons daily. That is down 4,000 b/d from the week before. The four-week average for ethanol production stood at 804,000 b/d for an annualized rate of 12.33 billion gallons. Stocks of ethanol stood […]
In North Dakota, Ron Kotrba, Editor of Biodiesel Magazine, penned an entertaining and informative “breakdown of the latest, sourced information as to why investment in biodiesel is a sound decision.” Among the “13 Reasons to Invest,” 1. Jump in on a growing market, no blend wall, rising acceptance of B20, increasing biodiesel product quality, greenhouse […]
In Canada, BIOX and Shell announced a new supply agreement to send biodiesel to Shell Canada Limited (Shell Canada ) by an inter-terminal pipeline from BIOX Corporation (BIOX) (BX.TO). BIOX’s Hamilton biodiesel refinery is located immediately adjacent to the Shell distribution terminal which allows for a pipeline to be installed connecting the two facilities. The […]
