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Hero BX wins $1.64 million grant to expand biodiesel production capacity from 45 Mgy to 55 Mgy
In Pennsylvania, Hero BX won a $1.64 million grant to expand its biodiesel production by 10 Mgy to 55 Mgy. American Agriculturalist is reporting that the company expects to move to up to 25 percent camelina as a feedstock source by 2012. According to the report, the company is already working with Penn State Extension [...]
Jet Plains: Do grasses, woods, mustards grown in the heartlands hold the key for aviation fuels?
Ceres, ViaSpace, Sustainable Oils, Solazyme are among R&D leaders aiming to turn America’s heartland into a high-tech advanced biofuels playground of energy grasses and camelina for advanced transportation biofuels and aviation fuel.
“I fully expect that in the future,” said Solazyme CEO Jonathan Wolfson, “that I will make my daily 15-mile commute in a car that [...]
KLM to test biofuels with passengers on flight, on November 23
In the Netherlands, KLM announced that it would become the first airline to test biofuels on a passenger flight. The company said that it would utilize a 50/50 mixture of camelina and standard jet fuel in a one-hour Boeing 747 flight on November 23 that would include, for the first time, a limited number of [...]
Colorado’s Blue Sun Energy biodiesel plant named “company to watch”; aims for algae, camelina
In Colorado, biodiesel producer Blue Sun Energy was selected as one of the “2009 Colorado Companies to Watch” by the Colorado Department of Economic Development and International Trade. The soy and canola biodiesel producer said that it has targeted algae, and camelina as future feedstocks, adding that algal oil now costs $20 per gallon to [...]
Advanced Biofuels get organized: Low Carbon Synthetic Fuels Association forms; Masdar, SAFUG, Boeing, UOP join on salt-tolerant feedstocks initiative
Advanced biofuels are organizing for the long-term.
Today, Boeing and UOP announced an initiative, with the Sustainable Aviation Fuel Users Group consortium and the Masdar Institute in Abu Dhabi, to examine the overall potential for sustainable, large-scale production of biofuels made from salicornia bigelovii and saltwater mangroves – plants known as halophytes.
The halophyte study will evaluate [...]
New projections point to massive biofuel supply/demand imbalances by 2015-2030; polyculture a way forward for sustainable production?
Three different visions of the future of global and US biofuels production were presented by researchers at Hart Energy, a team including Michigan Technological University and The Nature Conservancy, and the National Corn Growers Association.
First, the global picture from Hart. The company released its annual Global Ethanol & Biodiesel Outlook. This year the study provides [...]
Sustainable Oils, Solazyme, Cargill to supply 600,000 gallons of jet biofuel to US military
In Washington, the US Air Force has ordered a total of 400,000 gallons of renewable biofuels from Sustainable Oils, Cargill and Solazyme for testing as a military aviation fuel. the companies, in turn, will use UOP’s processing technology to convert oil from camelina, algae and animal fats into renewable jet fuel.
According to UOP, the military [...]
Renewable Energy Group: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile
Renewable Energy Group
Based in: Iowa
2008-09 ranking: Unranked
Business: Renewable Energy Group (REG) is a leader in the biodiesel industry by offering a complete biodiesel solution. Renewable Energy Group offers procurement and risk management, production operations, and technology services on a commercial scale level in addition to alternative feedstock research and commercialization which include lab and pilot [...]
Sustainable Oils wins Navy camelina jet fuel contract; 40K gallons, option for 150K more
In Montana, Sustainable Oils, a producer of camelina-based fuels, announced that it has been awarded a contract by the Defense Energy Support Center for 40,000 gallons of camelina-based jet fuel.
The fuel will be delivered to the Naval Air Systems Command fuels team in 2009 and will support the Navy’s certification testing program of alternative fuels. [...]
Lake Erie Biofuels becomes Hero BX; “at capacity” US biodiesel producer confounds industry trend, aims for expansion,
In Pennsylvania, Lake Erie Biofuels has been renamed Hero BX and said that the company will embark on a program of expansion after remaining at 100 percent of capacity with its first 45 Mgy biodiesel plant in Erie, even as the biodiesel industry has collapsed under low diesel prices and punitive European tariffs on US [...]
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The 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy - Sponsored by Core Informatics
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1. Coskata
2. Sapphire Energy
3. Virent Energy Systems
4. POET
5. Range Fuels
6. Solazyme
7. Amyris Biotechnologies
8. Mascoma
9. DuPont Danisco
10. UOP
11. ZeaChem
12. Aquaflow Bionomic
13. Bluefire Ethanol
14. Novozymes
15. Qteros
16. Petrobras
17. Cobalt Biofuels
18. Iogen
19. Synthetic Genomics
20. Abengoa Bioenergy
21. KL Energy
22. Ineos
23. GreenFuel
24. Vital Renewable Energy
25. LS9
26. Raven Biofuels
27. Gevo
28. St.1 Biofuels Oy
29. Primafuel
30. Taurus Energy
31. Ceres
32. Syngenta
33. Aurora Biofuels
34. Bionavitas
35. Algenol
36. Verenium
37. Simply Green
38. Carbon Green
39. SEKAB
40. Osage Bioenergy
41. Dynamotive
42. Sustainable Power
43. ETH Bioenergia
44. Choren
45. OriginOil
46. Propel Fuels
47. GEM Biofuels
48. Lake Erie Biofuels
49. Cavitation Technologies
50. Lotus/Jaguar – Omnivore -
