Should the Renewable Fuel Standard be scrapped, or revised? BP North America chief Susan Ellerbusch makes the case for “No”. In Chicago, BP Biofuels North America president Susan Ellerbusch, in addressing congressional attempts to re-write the US Renewable Fuel Standard, asked “Are you any less worried about energy security today than you were 4 years […]
As the new Hot 50 looms, we look at how much hotter, colder the current Hot 50 have been this year. Who will stay on the island, who is waiting in the wings? Readers: Subscriber and selector voting in the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy for 2011-12 winds up shortly, and we will announce the […]
13 companies knocking on the door of greatness – will they make the grade? 13 companies. 5 already public – eight filing for IPOs. In the first category, Codexis, Amyris, Gevo, Solazyme and KiOR. In the second category, PetroAlgae, Myriant, Ceres, Mascoma, Genomatica, Elevance Renewable Sciences, Fulcrum Bioenergy and OriginOil. They’ve shown what it takes […]
Is BP going for vertical integration, just as Shell has opted for a massive JV with Cosan; and Total, Marathon and Chevron continue with strategic investments in advanced technologies. Why vertical, why now? When BP entered into the biofuels sphere in 2008, the strategy under CEO Phil New was to seek out “advantaged” biofuels, in […]
In California, Mendel Biotechnology announced that a regulatory petition by Monsanto Company was made recently to the USDA for soybean plants containing Mendel’s leading yield gene. The filing is a key part of the regulatory path as the trait moves closer to commercial launch. Approval of the petition is one of the final milestones needed […]
Background: This is a second round, West Regional match-up between #3 seed Sapphire Energy and #11 seed OriginOil, in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tourney, from Biofuels Digest. Voting: Open to all Biofuels Digest subscribers. Voting links are in the Biofuels Digest daily newsletter. To subscribe (free), visit here. The winner gets: Most votes advances to the […]
In Florida, #3 seed Raizen was in early trouble with voters in the first round of the 2011 Transformative Technologies tournament, with 14th seeded Abengoa Bioenergy taking 55 percent of the votes in first day polling. The first-round of the tournament pits the hottest biotechnologies of 64 organizations against each other, in 32 head-to-head contests […]
In Florida, #3 seed Raizen was in early trouble with voters in the first round of the 2011 Transformative Technologies tournament, with 14th seeded Abengoa Bioenergy taking 62 percent of the votes in first morning polling in their week-long one-on-one contest. The Raizen-Abengoa match was one of two “Goliath vs Goliath” matchups. In the other, […]
“Transformative Technologies 2011” kicks off with 1st-round voting. Who’s the Best? This week: Goliath vs Goliath, David vs Goliath, “8 vs 9” contests to watch, plus a SynthBio blow-out with Sapphire Energy, Mendel, Synthetic Genomics and Ceres in the mix. In Florida, Amyris, Gevo, Solazyme and Coskata landed the top four seeds in the 2011 […]
Here are the Complete match-ups in the 2011 Transformative Technologies Tournament. Links take you to a summary of the match-up, including company profiles. East Regional #1 Coskata vs #16 Range Fuels #2 KiOR vs #15 Butamax #3 Mascoma vs #14 PetroAlgae #4 Qteros vs #13 Inbicon #5 Algenol vs #12 Monsanto #6 Dupont vs #11 […]
