Mid-December has arrived and the 2011 biofuels predictions season kicked off with a set from Cascadia Capital. The Digest’s own 2011 set will be published Tuesday December 21st. From Cascadia Capital came the following: 1. Cap and Trade Discarded by Congress in National Energy Policy Cascadia believes that Congress will implement a national energy policy […]
In Digestville, with the Americans safely tucked away for the Thanksgiving Day holiday, we have an unusual opportunity we simply can’t resist, to look at all the non-US companies that are getting traction in the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy competition, and have more of an in-depth look at the hottest of the hot. We’ve […]
“Nobody gonna love me better I must stick with you forever. Nobody gonna take me higher I must stick with you.” Stickwitu, The Pussycat Dolls In a note yesterday to Digest readers, we made the following prediction: By 2020, all bioenergy businesses that are still businesses, will consider their partnerships to be their #1 asset. […]
1. Tom Vilsack, US Secretary of Agriculture 2. Jeff Broin, CEO, POET 3. Bob Dinneen, President, Renewable Fuels Association 4. Miguel Soldateli Rossetto, CEO, Petrobras Biocombustiviles 5. Jonathan Wolfson, CEO, Solazyme / Harrison Dillon, PhD, CTO 6. Steven Chu, US Secretary of Energy 7. Marcos Lutz, CEO, Cosan 8. Alan Shaw, PhD, CEO, Codexis 9. […]
Conventional wisdom holds that first-generation ethanol is dead as a door-nail in terms of attracting viable investment, but events in recent months suggest that the conventional wisdom is off by some margin. The Sacramento Business Journal reported yesterday that “shares of Pacific Ethanol Inc. climbed 3 percent in trading Thursday, after the ethanol-producer… raised $53.5 […]
In Florida, Biofuels Digest is projecting that global advanced biofuels capacity will reach 3.917 billion gallons by 2015, based on company announcements to date. Today, the Digest released version 1.6 of its free Advanced Biofuels Tracking Database, projecting 2015 capacity for the first time. The new database, which is the quarterly update tracking new projects […]
Biofuels Digest is inaugurating a new section today: Top Tweets. If you haven’t been following the growth of Twitter, its a short messaging service limited to 140-character “tweets”, which will amuse, inform, and in some cases drive you completely crazy. But Twitter has become big. Last month, according to Royal Pingdom, Twitter processed 2.64 billion […]
In New Hampshire, Mascoma reported yesterday that it had acquired SunOpta BioProcess, a division of SunOpta Inc. (STKL) This combination brings together the fiber preparation and pretreatment technologies of SBI and the consolidated bioprocessing technology of Mascoma, to create a company with comprehensive capabilities for converting non-food cellulose (wood chips, energy crops and organic solid […]
In Canada, Enerkem broke ground on its 9.5 Mgy (36 million liter), $75M municipal waste-to-biofuels facility with its partners, the City of Edmonton and the Government of Alberta. Alberta Premier Ed Stelmach, Edmonton Mayor Stephen Mandel and Enerkem Chief Executive Officer Vincent Chornet participated in the event. Enerkem’s advanced biofuels plant, which will be located […]
The advocates of renewable energy have long chanted a mantra of “green jobs, energy security and lower emissions”, but in country after country we continue to see a fork in the road emerging whereby individual nations are forced to make choices between lowering (global) emissions or developing (local) green jobs. In Indonesia, the crisis has […]
