Tag: Coskata
In Case You Missed. Biofuels Digest’s 16 Most-Viewed Stories.
Tweet 12 months, 4400 stories. From 2012, here are the 16 most viewed stories in Biofuels Digest. Biofuels Digest Jobs - Job seeking is always a priority The 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy for 2012-13 are announced - The always popular Hot 50 and Hot 30 lists How Joule may turn biofuels upside down - Joule’s low-cost, drop-in [...]
Biofuels Digest releases new 5-Minute Guides: Avantium, BioProcess Algae, Coskata
Tweet 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, [...]
Coskata: Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guide
Tweet Address: 4575 Weaver Parkway, Suite 100, Warrenville, Illinois 60555 Year Founded: 2006 Company description: Coskata is a technology leader in the production of alternative fuels and chemicals. Our proprietary process has been demonstrated at significant scale and offers: • High yields • Low costs • Feedstock flexibility While the technology platform is capable of [...]
Burning Man, Burning Microbe: Biofuels beyond biomass
Tweet Can you have a biofuel without processing an intermediate biomass? Can post-biomass technologies revolutionize fuel and chemical production? Fuels and chemicals can make people mighty uneasy, when you think about them. With fossil fuels, the issues include the uneven distribution of resources and wealth, national security, price and price volatility, and carbon emissions. So along [...]
Dating Your Feedstock and Never Marrying: The 6 Hottest Ways to Alleviate Food vs Fuel
Tweet With the US drought, food vs fuel has returned as an issue. What alternatives are scientists, entrepreneurs developing to take us beyond the old debate? In the past week we published a report that the chairman of Nestle, Peter Brabeck-Lemathe, has called anew for a ban on making biofuels from feedstocks that can also [...]
Answers for your biofuels questions: Coskata, LanzaTech, butanol
Tweet Here in Digestville, we debut this week a content collaboration with Consumer Energy Report, a must-see content site that we recommend you check out and bookmark. Twice a month, we’ll check in with CER and excerpt their latest and greatest – including contributions from CER and Energy Trends editor and noted biofuels commentator Robert [...]
Coskata confirms it has dropped its IPO plans
Tweet In Illinois, Coskata has confirmed that it is dropping its IPO after acknowledging last week $100 million in private placement and switching its feedstock focus to natural gas when it alluded to Biofuels Digest that it might pass on its IPO. The highly volatile nature of the IPO market, with Facebook and other biofuel [...]
Coskata switches focus from biomass to natural gas; to raise $100M in natgas-oriented private placement
Tweet Coskata, looking at CAPEX opportunities, political uncertainty, and the investor climate — switches to an “all natural gas” feedstock strategy. Initiates a $100M private placement, puts Alabama project on hold. In today’s Digest, we look at the rationale, the impact and the way forward. “In North America there’s a golden opportunity,” Coskata CEO Bill [...]
The Hot Zone
Tweet Thermocatalytic biofuels projects are Going South – here’s who and why In US bioenergy as a whole, most of the attention has deservedly gone to the Midwestern states – by and large, that’s where the corn and soybean production calls home. Efforts to diversify the production of first generation biodiesel have been able to [...]
Coskata's $100 million IPO: The 10-Minute Version
Tweet The first gas fermentation technology to come to the public markets: Coskata files its $100 million IPO. Here’s our 10-minute version of the filing, with a translation of the risks into English. In Illinois, Coskata has filed an S-1 registration statement for a proposed $100 million initial public offering. The number of shares to [...]
