In Florida, The Digest announces the return of its annual 5-Minute Guides. Starting January 5th and continuing through the opening of ABLC 2015 in Washington DC, the Digest will publish at least one 5-Minute Guide per day, with a target of 100 in all. The Guides provide condensed profiles for companies in the advanced bioeconomy, their […]
IN CASE YOU MISSED SOME, Over the holidays, we published a number of our annual industry outlooks and look-backs: Top 10 Bioeconomy and Biofuels Predictions for 2015 Biofuels Mandates Around the World: 2015 The 41 Weirdest Things Ever Used to Make Biofuels 10 Biggest Bioeconomy Blockbuster Stories of 2014: Asia and Oceania 10 Biggest Bioeconomy […]
The 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, RBOB gasoline, and Ethylene; ethanol […]
A mere “The Year in Rewind” as we reach the end of 2014? Not the intrepidSS Digest! Instead, we dust off our crystal ball and peer into tomorrowland. As the sunset of 2014 gives way to the dawn of 2015, here at the Digest we resist the holiday temptation to look back over the challenges […]
Who mandates what in biofuels? 64 countries have targets or mandates — but how much where, and when, and what? In Florida, the Digest today releases its annual review of biofuels mandates and targets around the world, looking at the state of biofuels mandates in 64 countries. The bulk of mandates continue to come from […]
Bunnies, liposuction fat, Prince Charles’ leftover wine, day-old whale, the human poo bus, fire ants dipped in hexane, old beer, raging fireballs, vibrating blobs, dope, and even the New Orleans Times-Picayune. Take your pick and, yep, it’s all true, as the Digest discovers. IF YOU’RE ONLY AN OCCASIONAL READER in the world of biofuels, corn, sugarcane and […]
It’s the world’s first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol facility utilizing (waste) sugarcane bagasse as a feedstock. And the first of what Raizen says will be a network of seven full commercial-scale plants. What does it look like, how does it work? The Digest takes a look. In Brazil, Iogen and Raízen announced last month that they […]
Feedstock costs and challenges come under the microscope as the DOE reports new data on algae-based feedstocks and terrestrial crops too. Can algae-based biofuels reach full commercial scale by 2030? The Digest investigates. Twice this year, the US DOE’s Bioenergy Technologies Office has issued a revision of its ongoing Multi-Year Program Plan, once this summer […]
The 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, RBOB gasoline, and Ethylene; ethanol […]
Over the past weeks, we’ve asked you in a pair of surveys to help us identify positive steps and strategies to focus on for making industry progress in 2015. You disdained “messaging”, “policy reform”, “focusing on key, motivate customer segments” and “R&D reform”. Instead, you pointed to “bolt-ons”, “policy stability”, “financing”, “supply chain” and “focusing on winners” as […]
