In New Mexico, Sapphire Energy says the first phase of its 300 acre algae production facility is up and running. So far a 1.1 acre pond and a 2.2 acre pond are in operation. The company says it has so far harvested 21 million gallons of algae from the farm and expects to produce 100 […]
In California, Sapphire Energy announced new members to its Scientific Advisory Board as the company readies its first algae-to-energy commercial demonstration facility. As members, the experts will actively advise Sapphire as it refines its developmental process and technologies to produce algae-based Green Crude. The new board members represent key scientific and engineering disciplines, including chemistry, […]
In California, Sapphire Energy announced that it has secured the final tranche of a $144 million Series C investment funding. The Series C backers include Arrowpoint Partners, Monsanto, and other undisclosed investors. All major Series B investors have participated. This round of funding is being used to directly support Sapphire Energy’s active and on-schedule commercial […]
In California, Sapphire Energy announced it has entered into a licensing agreement with Earthrise Nutritionals, to integrate Earthrise Nutritionals’ spirulina strain into Sapphire’s growing inventory of cyanobacteria and algae strains for algae-to-energy production. The impact As a result of this agreement, Sapphire Energy said it will “significantly improve its operational efficiency by expanding the range […]
In California and Denmark, CLC bio, a bioinformatics sequence analysis software provider, announced that Sapphire Energy has installed a custom-made bioinformatics solution from CLC bio in their research center in San Diego. CLC bio’s consulting department designs and implements customized bioinformatics solutions.
In California, Sapphire Energy announced that Nucleic Acids Research Journal has published its white paper, “An exogenous chloroplast genome for complex sequence manipulation in algae.” Chloroplast genomes present a unique opportunity for the field of synthetic biology. In a single, relatively small molecule, they encode the most important genes of photosynthesis, nature’s principle method for […]
In California, as CEOs and other advanced biofuels leaders gathered for the opening of Advanced Biofuels Markets in San Francisco, LanzaTech, Sapphire Energy and LS9 announced the achievement of key milestones in their path to commercialization. LS( made a major step-up towards scale; LanzaTech landed its first commercial customer, and Sapphire Energy closed its key […]
In California, Sapphire Energy was selected as a 2011 “Game Changer of the Year” in Clean Technology by Grow-California for its impact on California’s green industry, in the category of Public/Private Partnerships. San Diego-based Sapphire Energy entered into two notable private partnerships this year. The company is partnering with Monsanto Company to discover genes that […]
In Florida, Sapphire Energy, KiOR and ZeaChem are unexpectedly trailing, and POET, Coskata, Waste Management, LanzaTech in close battles as 2nd round voting got underway in the Transformative Technologies 2011 competition. The shocker of the day was #11 seed OriginOil opening up a 62-38 first-day lead over Sapphire Energy, while #6 seed Terrabon got out […]
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 […]
