In Washington, the House Appropriations Committee’s Fiscal Year 2015 Agriculture Appropriations Bill would reduce mandatory spending levels – agreed to earlier this year – for important Energy Title programs, including the Renewable Energy for America Program, Biomass Crop Assistance Program, and the Biorefinery, Renewable Chemical and Biobased Product Manufacturing Assistance Program. The Agriculture Energy Coalition […]
It’s a capex figure so low that it sounds like a decimal point is missing. Though early-stage and just developing data out of its pilot — it’s well worth seeing what Sustainable Ethanol Technologies is up to, in its aim to drive down the capital costs of extracting cellulosic sugars from biomass. Among the many technologies […]
Nearly two years ago, on June 1, 2012, The Digest turned on our new Google Analytics tracking platform, so that we could better understand the stories you like, and more about our readership — age, location, interests, and so on. This past weekend, we have just passed a milestone in our evolution — more than […]
In Colorado, Gevo reported a net loss for Q1 2014 of $12.0M, compared to $18.4M for Q1 2013, on revenues of $900,000. The company completed Q1 with $8.4M on hand, though it closed a $25.9M private debt financing with Whitebox Advisors consisting of a senior secured term loan, exchangeable into senior secured convertible debentures, and […]
In Washington, Joule announced at the World Congress that its Sunflow-D and Sunflow-J products meet the standards of the American Society for Testing and Materials for diesel and jet fuel, respectively. Joule products achieve all accepted standards for fuel performance, and they may also improve quality of the finished fuel blends, as demonstrated by the […]
Diamond Green Diesel using UOP/Eni Ecofining process technology to produce more than 130 million gallons per year of renewable diesel In Illinois, UOP, a Honeywell company, announced that Diamond Green Diesel facility in Norco, Louisiana, has started up, using the UOP/Eni Ecofinin process technology. The Norco, Louisiana, facility, which was mechanically completed last year, converts […]
Ellen Kullman, CEO, Dupont “As the first employee of what is known today as DuPont Industrial Biosciences, one of my jobs was to keep away the naysayers, while the team tried to figure it out. In 1999 we had no exact idea how it would turn out. There were a lot of days I thought […]
BIO was buzzing about: Policy stability, technology stability, price stability, feedstock supply stability. And the common term is…? Aromatics When in doubt, succinic. Are major players waiting to pick up technologies cheap? Abengoa: cellulosic ethanol by Q3. Delegates at the World Congress were also buzzing about news from Australia that the federal government has slashed […]
By Colin Thurston, Informatics Project Director, Thermo Fisher Scientific With dramatic drops in U.S. energy imports, a clear sign of our growing energy independence, it would appear that renewables investment is at risk, including within the biofuels market. There’s certainly some evidence to support this, but if declining or stalled investment is predicated on the […]
In Pennsylvania, BIO was buzzing about a Reuters article that ascribed major influence on the current debate over the Renewable Fuel Standard to efforts on behalf of two smaller, struggling, Pennsylvania oil refineries, owned by Delta Airlines and The Carlyle Group. The Reuters report said that “the refiners helped convince policymakers that the rising mandates […]
