Solazyme ranked #1 in “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy” for 2011-12
Solazyme edges Amyris, Gevo in Hot 50 for 2011-12, as hot IPOs dominate, gasification advances.
In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced that Renewable oils developer Solazyme took the #1 spot in the 2011-12 “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy” rankings.
Amyris (#2), Gevo (#3), POET (#4), LS9 (#5), Novozymes (#6), Enerkem (#7), LanzaTech (#8), Honeywell’s UOP (#9), and ZeaChem (#10) round out the top 10.
Ranked #11 through #20 are Codexis, Abengoa Bioenergy, KiOR, Virent, Sapphire Energy, Ceres, Coskata, Dupont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol, Terrabon and Mascoma.
The rankings, which recognize innovation and achievement in bioenergy development, are based 60 percent on votes from a 100-member College of international selectors, and 40 percent on votes from subscribers of Biofuels Digest and Renewable Chemicals Digest. Overall, more than 1,000 companies were eligible in the rankings and 304 companies received votes in the poll, and more than 130,000 individual company ratings were completed by voters.
“This year, gasification-oriented companies did very well, cellulosic ethanol stepped back,” said Biofuels Digest editor and publisher Jim Lane. “Companies that completed their IPOs this year generally advanced strongly. Also, renewable chemicals is becoming more important. We also saw that companies in the pre-IPO queue and accompanying “quiet period”, going through re-branding or acquisition, suffered in the polls from the reduced visibility.”
Among the Hot 50, 37 were US-based companies and 13 were from other countries. 15 are active in cellulosic ethanol development (same as last year), six utilize algae or cyanobacteria in their energy solutions (up from five last year), and 16 are producing “drop-in” renewable biofuels such as biobutanol, renewable diesel, green gasoline and renewable jet fuel (same as last year). Two companies focused on renewable chemicals only in their first commercial plants, Genomatica, and Elevance, made the rankings for the first time.
Shell, ranked #32 in its own right, is an investor in #11 Codexis, #14 Virent, and has a JV with Cosan (#39). BP ranked #24, and is an investor in #28 Qteros and #47 OPX. Waste Management, ranked #26, is an investor in #7 Enerkem and #19 Terrabon. Dupont is the parent of #18 Dupont Celluosic Ethanol, and the parent of #30-ranked Genencor.
New companies in the list this year are: Genomatica (#31), Chemtex (#34), Elevance Renewable Sciences (#36), HCL Clean Tech (#40), Mendel Biotechnologies (#46), OPX Biotechnologies (#47) and Renmatix (#49).
The 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy for 2011-12 are:
1 Solazyme
2 Amyris
3 Gevo
4 POET
5 LS9
6 Novozymes
7 Enerkem
8 LanzaTech
9 Honeywell’s UOP
10 ZeaChem
11 Codexis
12 Abengoa Bioenergy
13 KiOR
14 Virent Energy Systems
15 Sapphire Energy
16 Ceres
17 Coskata
18 DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol
19 Terrabon
20 Mascoma
21 Cobalt Technologies
22 Petrobras
23 Joule Unlimited
24 BP Biofuels
25 Neste Oil
26 Waste Management
27 Rentech
28 Qteros
29 INEOS Bio
30 Genencor
31 Genomatica
32 Shell
33 Synthetic Genomics
34 Chemtex
35 Algenol
36 Elevance Renewable Sciences
37 OriginOil
38 SG Biofuels
39 Cosan
40 HCL CleanTech
41 Fulcrum Bioenergy
42 Cargill
43 Chevron
44 Bluefire Renewables
45 Dynamic Fuels
46 Mendel
47 OPX Biotechnologies
48 Inbicon
49 Renmatix
50 Monsanto
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