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Johnny Rockets recycles fry oil through DAR PRO Solutions
Tweet In California, Johnny Rockets partners with DAR PRO Solutions to recycle its restaurants used fry oil into renewable diesel fuel. Each year, Johnny Rockets serves about eight million pounds of american fries and two million orders of onion rings, all of which use fry oil. Through DAR PRO Solution’s green program, Johnny Rockets’ 29 [...]
Biofuels Digest Index hits 70.00 as ethanol rallies
Tweet The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, rallied 1.35 percent to 70.00 as ethanol stocks jumped. For the day, Green Plains (GPRE) leaped 7.61 percent to $12.16, while Solazyme (SZYM) soared 10.11 percent to $8.71. Among other equities, Valero (VLO) rose 3.25 percent to $41.97. Overall, advances led declines 2 [...]
Biofuels Digest Index slides to 68.01 as advanced biofuels tank
Tweet The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, fell 1.39 percent to 68.01 as advanced biofuels tanked. For the day, Valero (VLO) dropped 4.27 percent to $40.60, while KiOR (KIOR) lost 4.43 percent to $4.10. Among other equities, Codexis (CDXS) slumped 4.42 percent to $2.16. Overall, declines led advances 5 to [...]
Biofuels Digest Index drops to 68.97 despite advanced biofuels recovery
Tweet The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, shed 0.63 percent to 68.97 despite an advanced biofuels recovery. For the day, Valero (VLO) dropped 5.69 percent to $42.41, while KiOR (KIOR) sagged 4.67 percent to $4.29. Among other equities, Ceres (CERE) gave up 3.26 percent to $3.26. Overall, declines led advances [...]
Valero may spend triple last year’s buy on RINs
Tweet In Texas, Valero is turning back on its ethanol plants because of high ethanol prices that will cost them two to three times as much as it did last year on RINs, perhaps as high as $750,000. The company is calling for either an end to the RFS or to make ethanol blenders responsible [...]
Valero re-opens Ohio ethanol plant, readies Indiana facility for re-opening
Tweet In Ohio, Valero has restarted its ethanol facility in Bloomingburg and will restart its facility in Linden, Indiana now that corn futures have fallen by 16% combined with the fact that ethanol is trading at its highest price since August. Valero mothballed three of its 10 ethanol plants in June due to high corn [...]
Biofuels Digest Index slides to 71.48 as enzymes and large caps drop
Tweet The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, slid 0.33 percent to 71.48 as enzymes and large caps dropped. For the day, Renewable Energy Group (REGI) rose 4.08 percent to $7.90, while Valero (VLO) fell 4.68 percent to $43.42. Among other equities, Amyris (AMRS) dropped 2.99 percent to $2.92. Overall, declines [...]
ZeaChem Begins Production of Cellulosic Chemicals and Ethanol, Advances Toward Commercialization
Tweet ZeaChem announced that it has produced commercial-grade cellulosic chemicals and ethanol at its 250,000 gallons per year (GPY) biorefinery in Boardman, Ore. Among the first operational cellulosic biorefineries in the world, this demonstration facility showcases the scalability of ZeaChem’s biorefining process and serves as a key stepping-stone toward large-scale commercial production. “ZeaChem is developing [...]
RIN prices soar past $1 as blend wall arrives
Tweet In Illinois, RIN prices are soaring with prices having hit $1 each on Friday, a fact which Valero told the Wall Street Journal will likely get passed on to consumers later down the line. Prices are up because blenders refuse to add more than 10% ethanol at the pump but the blending mandate requires [...]
Hot sauce! 5 Lessons Louisiana can teach us about advanced bayoufuels
Tweet Louisiana — it’s as hot as cayenne pepper in biofuels capacity development, but there are cautionary tales hidden in the sauce. When it comes to the first generation of ethanol and biodiesel-based biofuels, Louisiana didn’t figure much into the calculations — to date, there’s just the 5 million gallon (per year) Oswalt Bioenergy biodiesel [...]
