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Looking back at ABLC 2013
Tweet As ABLC 2013 closes, we look back at 10 slides that caught our eye. ABLC 2013 has closed, and the delegates are now departing until May 18-20, 2014 when the latest in advanced biofuels goes again on display and under the microscope at ABLC 2014. After three intense days of activity, with two cabinet [...]
Oxygen for High Altitudes: 17 Biofuels ventures raise $434M in equity
Tweet Despite the sluggish economic recovery and questions over policy stability — biofuels ventures have been busy raising lots of capital. In the past 6 months, $434 million. Who got what, where, when and why? As any mountaineer knows — above 25,000 feet you hit the “death zone” – where oxygen is a must, now [...]
Abengoa begins operations at Salamanca plant
Tweet In Spain, Abengoa has begun operations at their demonstration plant in Salamanca. The plant has a capacity to treat 25,000 tons of municipal solid waste (MSW), from which up to 1.5 million liters of bioethanol will be produced for use as fuel. Their technology is being implemented at its plant in Hugoton (Kansas, USA), [...]
7 Steps to meeting US renewable fuels targets
Tweet We go through the renewable fuels math — and find that the nattering nabobs of negativism might have crowed too soon. Sometimes you wonder what former US Vice-President Spiro Agnew would make of the current political landscape, and the hoo-haw over the US Renewable Fuel Standard. Back in 1970, he decried the “nattering nabobs [...]
Iowa City to investigate MSW-to-biofuel options
Tweet In Iowa, Iowa City officials are expected to open a call for consultants by summer to explore options for MSW-to-biofuel in an attempt to reduce the city’s landfill. The City Council expects to spend up to $50,000 on the consultant whose responsibility will be to vet various technologies. Last year Fiberight met with city [...]
EPA green lights camelina, energy cane but keeps the lid on arundo
Tweet New renewable feedstock OKs. Good news, bad, neutral? The Digest looks in depth at the latest from EPA. In Washington, the US Environmental Protection Agency issued a final rule qualifying biofuels produced from camelina oil as biomass-based diesel or advanced biofuel, as well as biofuels from energy cane which qualify as cellulosic biofuel. This [...]
Enerkem raises $37.5M for landmark waste-to-biofuels plant in Edmonton
Tweet The long and sometimes perilous journey to financing Enerkem’s first commercial project appears to have reached the sunny shores of Completionland. We look at what it took. In Canada, Enerkem announced that it has closed a $37.5 million financing with Waste Management of Canada Corporation, a subsidiary of Waste Management, and EB Investments for [...]
LanzaTech: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide (Q1 2013 update)
Tweet Address: 725-C E. Irving Park Road, Roselle, IL. USA 60172 Year Founded: 2005 Company description: LanzaTech has developed a fully sustainable integrative gas to fuels and chemicals platform that has no impact on food, water security or high biodiversity land use. The proprietary gas-to-liquid platform produces fuels and high value chemicals such as 2,3-butanediol [...]
Enerkem: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide (Q1 2013 update)
Tweet Enerkem Address: 1130 Sherbrooke Street West, Suite 1500 Montreal, Quebec H3A 2M8, Canada Year Founded: 2000 Annual Revenues: undisclosed – private company Company description: Enerkem develops biofuels and chemicals from waste. With its proprietary thermochemical technology, Enerkem converts abundantly available municipal solid waste (mixed textiles, plastics, fibers, wood and other non-recyclable waste materials) into [...]
5 Biofuels Trends for 2013
Tweet Oil Majors, capacity building shortfalls, green diesel, waste to energy, and sustainability on the radar for 2013 By Mackinnon Lawrence Despite a relatively down year with respect to investment and production capacity expansion, the biofuels industry grew modestly in 2012, continuing a shift from first generation facilities to next generation, advanced biorefineries. Although it [...]
