Hawaii Bioenergy, Sapphire Energy, New Mexico State University, California Polytechnic State University, FDC Enterprises land tidy DOE support for algal biofuels, feedstock logistics projects. In Washington, US Secretary of Energy Ernest Moniz, speaking at the DOE Biomass conference, announced $16.5 million in grants to four projects in California, Hawaii and New Mexico aimed at breaking down technical barriers and […]
In Colorado, Gevo announced that it has brought its second million liter fermenter and GIFT system online at its Luverne, Minn. facility. “We have been successful in operating full-scale fermentations using our GIFT system – which separates the isobutanol from the fermentation broth – on a second million-liter fermenter and GIFT system,” noted Patrick Gruber, […]
Cash from Trash: The Heroes from Vero are making renewable fuel in commercial quantities from ag waste and MSW in South Florida. The Digest speaks with INEOS Bio CEO Peter WIlliams and COO Mark Niederschulte about the world’s first facility to convert waste to fuel and electricity. In Florida, INEOS Bio announced that its Indian […]
Think the Hatfields and McCoys, Cain and Abel, the Montagues and the Capulets, Alabama and Auburn, Army and Navy are among the the fiercest rivalries in history? Mere wannabees, mere pretenders. Just warm up acts for our friends at Gevo and Butamax. In Delaware, Butamax announced that Judge Sue Robinson granted Butamax’s summary judgment motions […]
Sapphire raises new round of equity, pays off USDA Loan Guarantee: “Sapphire Energy is very grateful to the USDA for supporting algae crude oil,” says CEO C.J. Warner. In California, Sapphire Energy announced it has paid off the loan guarantee awarded to the company by the U.S. Department of Agriculture. In Dec. 2009, the company […]
The Landscape In today’s Digest – visit our 5-Minute Guide to Loan Guarantees — INEOS Bio, Myriant, Sapphire Energy, Abengoa, Chemtex, Enerkem, Fiberight, Fulcrum, ZeaChem – Plus POET-DSM, Diamond Green Diesel, Coskata and Range Fuels – by following the page links below.
The annual rankings competition opens up for the hottest companies in the sector; who will be #1 – who will get your vote? Voting by Twitter expanded this year; Facebook voting added. Hottest Industry Partners, Hottest Bioenergy Places; Hottest R&D Partners in Bioenergy now joined to the main competition. In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced the […]
Six years ago tomorrow, Biofuels Digest debuted with two subscribers and a hunch. Some 1500 editions and 25,000 stories later, we continue to be impressed here in Digestville by this industry’s spirit of innovation in technology, finance and policy — as it offers consumers of fuels and chemicals the blessings of price and supply stability […]
Trains to Nowhere, Camel-tummy microbes, a nation run on coconuts, “vibrating blob” tunicates, a high-performing fungus, a cousin of the potato blight microbe, biofuels from a “raging fireball”. 2012-13 stands up with any year for stories both inspiring and bizarre. Another year in Digestville has come and gone — and along with so many straightforward […]
BP, KiOR, Terrabon, DuPont, Beta Renewables, Sapphire Energy, Gevo and more — project starts, stops, births, deaths, predictions, and policy — the readers judge the most important stories of the year. In years to come, historians will look back and identify with the lusty “aha!” the true trends that emerged from 2012-13 — all of […]
