In Massachusetts, Joule announced that CEO Bill Sims will step out of his management role but will remain a member of the company’s board. Noubar Afeyan, co-founder and Chairman, is assuming the role of interim-CEO while Paul Snaith, who joined the company in 2012, will be promoted to President and COO of Joule. “Bill joined […]
In Washington DC, at the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference (ABLC 2013), Joule President and CEO Bill Sims announced that the company had achieved direct conversion of waste CO2 into the essential components of gasoline and jet fuel. The breakthrough gives Joule the opportunity to expand its Sunflow product line and help address global demand for […]
Biofuels Digest has released the next wave of its 5-Minute Guides – a “news you can use” digest on the leading companies in biofuels. Each 5-Minute Guide provides a company description, 3 top milestones for 2010-12 and projected for 2012-14, description of the business model; plus project info (location, feedstocks, product set, processing technology, capacity, […]
Address: 83 Rogers Street, Cambridge, MA 02142 Year founded: 2007 Company description: Joule is advancing a production platform for Liquid Fuel from the Sun™, expected to eclipse the scale, productivity and cost efficiency of any known alternative to fossil fuel today. Its transformative Helioculture™ platform directly and continuously converts sunlight and waste CO2 to infrastructure-ready […]
Joule continues to move out of stealth and into the light with its transformative Sunflow-E and Sunflow-D fuels, made biologically from waste CO2, sunlight and saline water with no intervening biomass step. Now, Audi joins the party. In its transition — from Joule Intriguing Yet Undisclosed, to Joule Available At-Scale — Joule critics and fans […]
Launches subsidiary, Joule Fuels, led by oil and energy experts to advance global deployment of industry’s first direct solar-to-fuels platform. In Massachusetts, Joule announced the commissioning of its first SunSprings demonstration plant in Hobbs, New Mexico, where the company will prove its scalable platform for solar fuel production – the first of its kind – […]
In Florida, Gevo topped the the Biofuels Brand Index for the week of July 30-August 3, in a new weekly feature tracking biofuels producer brands exposure. The latest weekly release, revealed the brand exposure for 45 different organizations, based on appearances each made in the more than 90 news features published that week, and reader […]
In Florida, Biofuels Digest debuted the Biofuels Brand Index, a new weekly feature tracking biofuels producer brands exposure. The first weekly release, for the week of July 9-13, reveals the brand exposure for 52 different producers, based on appearances each made in the more than 90 news features published that week, and reader clicks. For […]
Can industrial biotech merge mass production and haute couture into a new, tailored yet industrial system for products and materials? Companies like Joule may have the answers. A long time ago there was a children’s television show called Romper Room, with two recurring characters called Mr. Doo-Bee and Mr. Don’t-Bee – oversized bees that helpfully […]
In New Mexico, details emerged from the Joule-Fluor deal. It was revealed last month that Fluor received a contract from Joule to design and build a renewable fuel production facility in New Mexico. The facility will scale and test Joule’s novel hydrocarbon production process, which transforms waste carbon dioxide directly into liquid hydrocarbons, ethanol, or […]
