Thailand announces $11.3 billion 10-year plan to build sugarcane and cassava bioeconomy
This week we reported from Thailand:
“The government launched its 10-year plan to build a bioeconomy hub for the region with private and public sector...
The doctrine of energy maneuver: Hurricane Harvey gives a lesson on diversifying fuel supply
As the battered but game residents of Houston drain and repair their battered city, US gasoline prices spike on fears of a refinery crunch....
Don’t spill that ethanol! Those cellulosic fuels are worth $4.33 a gallon.
The value of cellulosic fuels has reached $4.33 per gallon in the California market. That’s real-world, today, including the energy and the low-carbon attributes,...
Top 10 Bioeconomy Predictions for 2017
A mere “The Year in Rewind” as we sail into 2017? Not the good ship Digest! Instead, we dust off our crystal ball and offer our...
CABLE is coming to San Francisco – and why that’s a must-read, must-know for...
In today’s newsflow, NIFA unveiled $21M in grants to accelerate the bioeconomy, and in there was a $2.75M grant to jumpstart a 19-university consortium...
Vertibirds are GO: DOE OKs Vertimass drop-in biofuels technology, clears path to demo scale
In California, Vertimass gained its intermediate technology validation with the US DOE's Bioenergy Technology Office, which verified performance against negotiated milestones, provided progress on scale-up, and...
Hot Spots: The Top 10 Bioeconomy Places to Watch in Canada
When it comes to project action, Go North, young man. Canada's hot and the technology's cool.
The colder weather might be just around the corner...
A spirit of Kuleana: renewable fuels ventures strive for new geographies, feedstock, products
Nothing rang clearer as an industry imperative at ABLC Next last week than the theme of diversification in a Year of Living Dangerously, and...
Industrial Biotech’s Billion Dollar Quarter: ventures raise $1.1B in Q1 from seed to commercial-scale
In Florida, Biofuels Digest reports that the industrial biotechnology sector raised $1.103B in new capital in the first quarter of 2017, excluding debt and...
DC’s climate change: renewables adapting to shifting political weather
There's climate change in Washington; it's the only kind that no one denies, and it's impacting the US renewables community as the policy shifts initiated by the Trump...