USDA steams back into picture in biofuels’ Hot Partners poll

In Florida, voting is now underway in the 2013 Hot Partners competition, and will continue through Friday June 14 at 5pm EDT.

As the competition enters its final week of voting, the USDA took back the lead from BP Biofuels in the polling for Finance (late or commercialization stage).

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Categories and leaders in voting to date:

Engineering, procurement & construction – Harris Group
Enzymes, yeasts & sugars – Novozymes
Feedstocks (energy crops) – Solazyme
Feedstocks (gases and residues) – POET Biomass
Distributors – Green Plains Renewable Energy
Finance (early-stage) – US DOE
Finance (commercialization) – USDA
Lab services – Southern Research Institute
Pretreatment systems –  POET-DSM
Professional counselors & consultants  – Elsevier
Separation, microharvest, informatics & catalysis systems and services – BASF
Processing systems and services – POET-DSM
Vehicle & vehicular equipment systems – John Deere
R&D Partners – NREL
Strategic customers (fuels) – US Navy
Strategic customers (bio-based products) – Coca-Cola