Registration opens for 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy 2011-12, Transformative Technologies 2011

August 1, 2011 |

In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced the return of two annual competitions, with the opening of registration for the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy and Transformative Technologies 2011.

The 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy 2011-12

The Hot 50 is the Digest’s oldest and most-popular ranking system, attracting tens of thousands of individual company ratings from subscribers and an invited panel of international subscribers. Registration automatically places companies on the Hot 50 ballot (otherwise, companies have to depend on write-in votes), as well as distributing useful information about the company via the annual Digest Selectors’ Data Book. Registering companies will receive a copy of the 400-page Data Book, which also contains many useful industry metrics.

Registration forms can be downloaded here.

Voting for the Hot 50 will commence October 1, 2011, and the complete rankings for 2011-12 will be announced in early November.

Transformative Technologies 2011

Transformative Technologies is the Digest’s premier subscriber-only voting, and focuses on technologies (as opposed to, for example, downstream marketers or strategic investors, as well as technology companies, that feature in the Hot 50). In this competition, we explore which technologies are the most transformative in terms of science, yield, economics and/or sustainability.

This year’s competition will feature 64 organizations in a weekly elimination format. 52 companies from the Hot 30 and Hot 50 receive automatic berths – the remaining 12 will be chosen from Hot 50 registrations received by 5pm Eastern time August 12, 2011.

Registration forms can be downloaded here.

Seedings will be announced, and subscriber voting will begin August 15, 2011 and will proceed as follows:

August 15-19 First Round – elimination to 32
August 22-26 Second Round – elimination to 16
Aug 29-Sept 2 Third Round – elimination to 8
Sept 5-9 Quarterfinals
Sept 12-16 Semi-finals
Sept 19-23 Finals – winner announced September 25

Companies that have automatically qualified for Transformative Technologies 2011 by appearing in the most recent Hot 50 or Hot 30 are:

Abengoa Bioenergy
Algenol
Amyris
BlueFire Renewables
Butamax
Cargill
Ceres
Cobalt Technologies
Codexis
Cosan
Coskata
Dow Chemical
DSM
Dupont
DuPont Danisco
Dynamic Fuels
Elevance
Enerkem
Fulcrum Bioenergy
Genencor
Genomatica
Gevo
Honeywell’s UOP
Inbicon
IneosBio
Iogen
Joule Unlimited
KiOR
KL Energy
LanzaTech
LS9
Mascoma
Metabolix
Monsanto
Myriant
Neste Oil
Novozymes
OPX Biotechnologies
OriginOil
PetroAlgae
POET
Qteros
Range Fuels
Rentech
Sapphire Energy
SG Biofuels
Solazyme
Synthetic Genomics
Terrabon
Verenium
Virent
ZeaChem

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