In Washington, the Biotechnology Industry Organization is hailing the release by the USDA of the new report “Why Biobased?” which it describes as the first comprehensive federal quantification of the job opportunities and other economic benefits of the growing biobased products and renewable chemical industry. In the report, authors Jay Golden and Robert Handfield note […]
In Washington, 17 advanced bioeconomy companies were named to the 2014 Global Cleantech 100, produced by Cleantech Group, and LanzaTech was named North American Company of the year, awarded to the highest-ranked company on the list from the region. According to the Cleantech Group, a record number of nominations were received: 5,995 distinct companies from […]
Broadening the sources and uses for cellulosic ethanol. As we reported yesterday in the Digest, DuPont and Procter & Gamble, announced a collaboration to use cellulosic ethanol in North American Tide laundry detergent, a first of its kind. Tide Cold Water will be the first brand in the world to blend cellulosic ethanol in a […]
Cellulosic leaders sign with Energochemica for the construction of a 2nd Generation Ethanol plant in the Slovak Republic. In Italy, Biochemtex and Beta Renewables announced an agreement with Energochemica SE for the construction of a 16.5 million gallon (55,000 ton per year) cellulosic ethanol plant. The plant, which will be constructed in Strazske, Slovak Republic, […]
In Florida, subscriber voting entered the final week in the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy, the 30 Hottest Companies in Biobased Chemicals & Materials, and the 40 Hottest Small Companies in the Bioeconomy. The Digest released the names of the top vote getting companies in the Hot 50, the Hot 40 and Hot 30 subscriber […]
USDA issues $91M loan guarantee conditional commit to Cool Planet. Obama Adminstration back building of the company’s first commercial plant in Louisiana, as it opens its first commercial-scale Cool Terra operation in California. “First of hundreds” says Cool Planet CEO. In California, Cool Planet Energy Systems was issued a $91MM conditional commitment from the United States […]
About The Digest Dashboard. Biofuels 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, […]
Here are the winning Photo Votes for the week in this years’s competition for the Hottest Companies in the Advanced Bioeconomy, Renewable Chemicals & Biomaterials. “There’s nothing like a photo vote to help a company — in the strange and microscopic world of industrial biotechnology — to visualize its creativity, company spirit, and communicate a fun, positive […]
Those of you who have not seen Michael Breen at ABLC earlier this year, or this week at the Algae Biomass Summit, missed out on a pair of very special addresses. We have provided excerpts from his latest address, this at the Algae Biomass Summit. I got my introduction to energy security in my first […]
For those who hadn’t heard that there was a third generation of algae technology going round, it might come as a surprise that there’s a fourth. Let’s go through these, with the caveat that, like children, we are naming these in birth order rather than a ranking based on preference. Something is not necessarily better […]
