Tag: Enerkem
Enerkem starts “drop-in” fuels R&D
Tweet Also, next-gen waste-to-biofuels biofuels pioneer expects to reach commissioning stage by summer at first commercial plant In Canada, Enerkem announced that the Canadian government will contribute $1.1 million to a project developing new catalytic processes for the conversion of waste into “drop-in” biofuels. These “drop-in” biofuels are fully interchangeable with hydrocarbon fuels, such as [...]
Enerkem scores nearly $3 million from $85 million Canadian energy fund
Tweet In Canada, Prime Minister Stephen Harper announced support of more than $82 million through Natural Resources Canada’s ecoENERGY Innovation Initiative (ecoEII) for 55 innovative projects across Canada. Of these, 15 will be pre-commercialization demonstration projects to test the feasibility of various technologies, and 40 will be research and development projects to address knowledge gaps and [...]
“Enerkem: committed to Pontotoc ethanol project.”
Tweet Today on Twitter: YA_Environment #yahooanswers Open Question: do biofuels produce gasoline? and do they use fossil fules to produce … vulken17 Algae Biofuels with Stephen Mayfield, UC San Diego UCSD-TV 4reezingPoint: We got solar power, hydroelectricity, biofuels, wind power, and geothermal energy… And we kill each other over oil SugarcaneBlog Enerkem: committed to Pontotoc ethanol project – [...]
Enerkem remains committeed to Pontotoc plant
Tweet In Mississippi, Canada-based Enerkem spokeswoman Annie Pare confirmed that the company remains committed to their Pontotoc plant, despite not having begun construction four years after announcement of plans. The $100m project, with a $150m expansion to follow, is still in the design stage, with construction expected to begin by the latter half of 2013. [...]
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 [...]
New 5-Minute Biofuels Digest Guides to Amyris, Enerkem, Gevo, LanzaTech, LS9, Novozymes, POET, Sapphire Energy, Solazyme, ZeaChem
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. This release updates 10 guides for the latest developments through Q1 2013. Each 5-Minute Guide provides a company description, latest news, awards, and Biofuels Digest feature stories; 3 top milestones [...]
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 [...]
The Force: the Cellulosic biofuels tax credit is back, but is it really needed?
Tweet Finding it hard to explain to taxpayers why the PTC is needed, for the jump to cellulosic biofuels lightspeed, or to ward off predatory fossil-fuel evildoers? Turns out, The Force may not be needed after all.  So, the fiscal cliff was averted in a last minute-deal by DC lawmakers. Sort of. For now. [...]
Little Big Tech: Can Fischer-Tropsch technology work at smaller scale?
Tweet While companies pursue alternatives to Fischer-Tropsch technologies, Velocys is seeking to make F-T work economically with micro-reactors. In last week’s Digest, Robert Rapier aptly stated the challenge in front of XTL technologies – companies whose primary focus is gas-to-liquids (GTL), coal-to-liquids (CTL), or biomass-to-liquids (BTL): “The two major problems with any of the XTL [...]
Biofuels Digest’s 5-Minute Guides: first wave of company reports released
Tweet Biofuels Digest has released the first 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, [...]
