By James L. Stewart, Chairman of the Board, BioEnergy Producers Association For the eighth consecutive year, Chief Executive.net has ranked California as the worst state in the nation in which to do business, and its legislature’s historic attitude toward gasification-related advanced biofuels, biobased chemicals and electricity production is a stunning example of the reason why. […]
Azul Airlines announces plans to test Amyris sugarcane-based jet fuel; more than 30 airlines now trialing, deploying biofuels – but who’s doing what, exactly? In Brazil, Azul Airlines announced that Amyris’s innovative renewable jet fuel sourced from Brazilian sugarcane has passed all required testing and will be used during a demonstration flight on an Azul […]
Nothing new under the sun? Potrzebie! These biofuels feedstocks set records for ingenuity, sheer craziness and a liberal dose of “what, me worry?” Most of the stories we write at the Digest on the subject of biofuels feedstocks fall into the well-established realms of normal. But every once in a while, a feedstock emerges that is […]
A major plant opening by Novozymes in Nebraska and a project announcement from ExxonMobil in Texas, highlight the opportunities and challenges for industrial biotechnology It was, fittingly, one of those “chamber of commerce” sunny late spring days in Blair, Nebraska, when the VIP-laden cars and buses rolled in to a town just north of Omaha […]
In California, the state Energy Commission today unanimously approved funding of $35,031,310 to projects that will accelerate the development of green fuels and technology in California. The awards are provided through the Energy Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program. The program, created by Assembly Bill 118, provides approximately $100 million annually to […]
The US Renewable Fuel Standard: Time to Add, Modify or Delete? In Washington, staff members working for least eight US Senators will join a study group aimed at a “seed-to-wheel examination of the US Renewable Fuel Standard,” the Digest has learned. The goal of the study group is to examine which provisions are working, and […]
The Underdog feedstock is getting Big Mo’, getting’ its due, with sorghum-based ethanol making the grade under optimal conditions as an advanced biofuel pathway, and EPEC landing new investment. What’s up? What’s next? New pathways, plus country-by-country yield data. Sorghum. It’s a feedstock right out the pages of the old South — sorghum syrup served […]
What magic is in the kool-aid, at biofuels’ newest commercial scale-up success story? Gevo CEO Pat Gruber adds that “Latitude to Learn” is key to success for advanced fermentation companies. You can think of him as the guiding technological force behind Cargill’s NatureWorks, the charismatic CEO of advanced biofuels darling Gevo, or as the winner […]
Is it time to think about 2013, for the supporters of military biofuels? Too many early-stage biofuels supporters, we think, come from major market cities like Boston and the Bay Area, where the local baseball teams are seemingly always in contention, and heartbreak, if it ever comes, never seems to come until September or October. […]
Note to readers: We’ve been running the Hot 40 Partners Voting for two weeks now, and here’s the first partner company that has provided, during the voting period, something more than a get-out-the-vote effort – here’s some pretty compelling thought-leader material from Fredrickson & Byron‘s Todd Taylor. It’s theme, things that companies and individuals in […]
