By Steve Weiss Special to The Digest At a recent bioeconomy-focused ABLC conference I counted over a dozen companies striving to ‘bring to life’ first-of-its-kind (FOIK) projects, in renewable chemicals, fuels or materials – typically requiring hundreds of millions each in financing. A critical ingredient to make these real? High-quality – investment-quality – offtake agreements. […]
In Florida, the Daily Digest has revealed the top 200 vote-getting organizations in the 50 Hottest Companies in the Bioeconomy 2024 rankings, with one week remaining in Digest subscriber voting. To date, 4870 votes have been tallied — the results below are indexed (100 equals the media vote total) and ranked. Voting is complete at […]
In the Netherlands, STX Group has unveiled a new structure financing partnership with BioValue for the construction and development of the Groengas Cothen biomethane plant in the Netherlands. The project The new plant adds at least 80GWh of renewable natural gas capacity per year. This strategic move is aligned with STX Group’s mission to promote […]
The Due Diligence Wolves return to the ABLC stage Yes, the Wolves wish you a happy and value-friendly Valentines. They’re getting ready for their next appearance on the ABLC stage as we look at five new technologies and fumigate out any cant, pettifoggery or hype in the search for true value. Only value! That’s their […]
By Bruce Comer, Frank Kim, Zak Putlak, and John Panvica, Ocean Park Special to The Digest The US biofuels sector in 2023 registered the flourishing of new technologies and billions in new investments – and an unprecedented low level of M&A activity: only two operating biofuels plants and two non-operating plants, worth 310 million gallons […]
By Glenn Farris, Managing Director, Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to The Digest In the drive towards a clean energy future and a low-carbon energy environment, purpose-grown energy crops will play a major role. At this time and for many years, researchers associated with universities, national labs, seed companies, and other institutions both public and private […]
By Sam Rushing, President, Advanced Cryogenics, Ltd., WWW.CARBONDIOXIDECONSULTANTS.COM. Special to The Digest Carbon dioxide is generally thought of by those who are not in the gases industries as either a greenhouse gas; and/or for use in beverage carbonation, and perhaps fire abatement. To those in the gases industries, carbon dioxide is known for much more; […]
In Florida, The Digest announced the opening of nominations for the Bioeconomy 500, which recognizes individuals for their leadership contributions to the bioeconomy’s development and project deployment. The 500 is expected to honor scientists, engineers, policy makers, financiers, project developers, feedstock pioneers, offtakers, advocates and supply-chain and distribution partners. Every Digest subscriber can nominate an […]
By John R. Kirkwood, Virginia M. Speck, Joshua L. Andrews, Aaron L. Szabo, Jason Deppen, Bryan Michael Allen Special to The Digest In connection with the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA), on December 22, 2023, the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) released a Proposed Regulation related to Section 45V of the Internal Revenue Code. The Proposed Regulation, […]
By Terry Mazanec, Ph.D., Lee Enterprises Consulting Special to The Digest The late Sir John Cadogan, renowned organic chemist and Welsh Member of Academia Europaea, was the first person whom I heard exclaim that we were on a path towards the ‘hydrogen economy.’ It was 1986, and my company, SOHIO (The Standard Oil Company (Ohio)), […]
