Biomass and natural gas XTL project gets more traction in Louisiana – what is XTL and why might that TLA become SOP? In Colorado, Sundrop Fuels announced a partnership with technology and engineering supplier ThyssenKrupp Uhde for what will be the nation’s first bona fide commercial “green gasoline” production facility. The company’s inaugural plant near [...]
Today, at jobs.biofuelsdigest.com – you’ll see our greatly enhanced and improved job service.. We’ve been astonished by the growth of activity among jobseekers. Since the job board opened, Digest subscribers have clicked 184,602 times to see job listings – enough to fill a small city. It’s grown from a handful of clicks, to days of [...]
In Brazil, GraalBio Investimentos plans to invest $724.5 million in five cellulosic ethanol plants during the next few years. The first 21.6 million gallon facility in Alagoas that will use sugarcane bagasse as feedstock is expected to come online in December 2013. At the Alagoas plant, the suppliers of the enzymes and industrial yeasts are [...]
In Kansas, the Challenger combine from Agco can harvest wheat and bale straw for biomass energy production at the same time without straw ever hitting the ground. The machine can be used to the same effect for corn, switchgrass or miscanthus harvest. Feedstox, owned by Kansas Alliance for Biorefining and Bioenergy and partially funded by [...]
In Washington, the Energy Information Agency says that ethanol production rose 1.7% in the past week to 919,000 bpd while stocks rose 3.7% to 21.4 million barrels. At the same time, ethanol futures in Chicago fell by 3.7%, the most in four months, as corn prices fell 5.7% on the expectation that rains will boost [...]
In California, AFS BioOil has announced that its state-of-the art facility located at a wastewater treatment plant in the San Francisco Bay Area is open for tours for strategic partners and customers. The volume of the system is 150 m3; the annual nameplate capacity is 55 tons of algae biomass. The installed bioreactor is a [...]
In the UK, Future Capital Partners announced that the Belgian Export Credit Agency has underwritten the $330 million 44 million gallon per year wheat-based Vireol ethanol plant planned for Grimsby and has secured $39 million in senior debt for the facility.
In Belgium, European Commission president Jose Manuel Barroso wants the energy and environment departments to go back to the drawing board on ILUC. Reason? The College of Commissioners rejected at their May 2 meeting not only the compromise that would have seen crop-specific ILUC factors added to the Fuel Quality Directive but not the Renewable [...]
In Brazil, GraalBio Investimentos plans to invest $724.5 million in five cellulosic ethanol plants during the next few years. The first 21.6 million gallon facility in Alagoas that will use sugarcane bagasse as feedstock is expected to come online in December 2013. At the Alagoas plant, the suppliers of the enzymes and industrial yeasts are [...]
In Utah, students at Brigham Young University have won first place at the SAE Formula Hybrid competition using their E-85 electric hybrid race car that they designed. The car, called the Hybrid Blue, can reach 60mph in 3 seconds. After a 14 mile endurance race, the car still had a 75% charge in its battery.
In India, Bangalore University of Agricultural Sciences is home to the first of 13 biofuel information centers being built around the state of Karnataka by the state’s biofuel development board as a way to promote local biofuel production. Each center will also have the capacity to crush up to 100 or 150 metric tons of [...]
In California, researchers from the University of California at Davis say that the GHG emissions from cutting down forests can vary depending on how the trees were used in the past and where they were grown. Emissions can vary significantly if the forest was used to produce wood for construction or if it was produced [...]
In Illinois, United Airlines, Boeing, Honeywell’s UOP, the Chicago Department of Aviation and the Clean Energy Trust announced the formation of the Midwest Aviation Sustainable Biofuels Initiative (MASBI), designed to advance aviation biofuel development in a 12-state region holding significant promise for biomass feedstock, technology development, job creation and sustainable commercialization.
In Washington, Chief of Naval Operations Admiral Jon Greenert, House Armed Services Committee Ranking Member Adam Smith (D-WA), and Lieutenant General John Castellaw (USMC, ret.) joined the chorus of voices calling on the US Senate to support the Department of Defense’s energy innovation programs. Chief of Naval Operations, Admiral Jonathan Greenert, writing Senator Mark Udall [...]
In Washington, President Obama announced that the G8 leaders have joined the new Climate and Clean Air Coalition for Reducing Short Lived Climate Pollutants. Short-lived climate pollutants include black carbon soot, methane, and hydrofluorocarbons, which are factory-made gases used in refrigeration and air conditioning and the fastest growing climate pollutant in the U.S. They also [...]
Today on Twitter. onlyenerg: Chu Visits DuPont Biofuels Lab: WILMINGTON, Del. (AP) – Energy Secretary Steven Chu got a firsthand look at the … Riley_PA: Nice work @CleanEnergyTrst @united and @Boeing on launch of The Midwest Aviation Sustainable Biofuels Initiative CaBrightspot: Stanford Announces Certificate Program in #Renewable Energy nzbiofuels: Novozymes partner Graal Bio to start [...]
Today on Twitter. ASPB: The future of algal biofuels in the U.S. Will Algae Biofuels Hit the Highway? – Forbes coherentmedia: Updates to the Directory of Biofuels Organizations on the Biofuels Wiki. It may be worth checking to see if you’re… bIOblogger: Read #MyComment to NYTimes: A New Skirmish in the #Ethanol Wars: GreenGirl1986: Feedstox [...]
Today on Twitter. jon_jeckell: Fred Kaplan misses point. Army & Marines use solar, not biofuels because it obviates fuel delivery, not due to cost patsion: Biofuels Industry Has Fight on Its Hands as Senators Take Up Budget Debate – National Defense Magazine redshield3: Algal biofuels not looking so good to the DOE; pyrolysis projected to [...]
In California, Codexis announced a three-year extension of its catalyst and process development collaboration with Merck to develop enzymes for use in pharmaceutical manufacturing. As the collaboration enters its sixth year, Merck will continue to use Codexis’ enzyme products to develop more cost- and resource-efficient manufacturing processes for its therapeutic candidates. The initial agreement was [...]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, slipped 0.16 percent to 62.10 as large caps fell again. For the day, ADM fell 0.75 percent to $31.92, while KiOR (KIOR) dropped 6.45 percent to $9.29. Among other equities, Amyris (AMRS) soared 10.80 percent to 2.36. Overall, declines led advances 6 to 5 [...]
Dupont is accelerating, after acquiring Danisco in a $6B 2011 takeover. Next stop – expansion in cellulosic biofuels and biobutanol. They’re bullish on biofuels and getting more so as their technology and vertically integrated strategy comes together. More than a year ago now, Dupont took a giant additional leap into industrial biotechnology with the acquisition [...]
In Iowa, Ag Processing has officially re-started the mothballed 60 million gallon per year biodiesel plant formerly known as East Fork Biodiesel in Algona. Now known as AGP Algona, the company bought the facility in 2011. Total installed capacity for the company is now 120 million gallons annually.
