50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy: registration closes, competition begins for more than 1,000 companies; Reader Poll on Hot fuels, feedstocks and technologies

In Florida, the formal registration period for the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy rankings has closed, with 165 companies submitting or updating detailed registration profiles for the competition; an additional 190 companies received coverage in 2009 in Biofuels Digest which will be made available to voters; more than 700 additional companies are eligible under the rules of the competition.

What makes a company hot? “Regardless of size, funding, geography, or fuel type, — the right ideas at the right time really are the deciding factor,” said Biofuels Digest editor Jim Lane.

“Just yesterday, Matt Snyder of Scipio Biofuels in California called about his proposal to establish algae cultivation on a perimeter area at airport. The technology would produce feedstock that can be processed on-site into renewable jet fuel.

“What an interesting concept! Fuel made on unused, otherwise unusable land, requiring no carbon-heavy transportation from farm to processing plant to distributor to user. Assuming Matt and his team work out the economics and the permitting, that’s a hot idea.”

READER POLL: What in your opinion, are the hot feedstocks, fuels and processing technologies? Take our reader poll here. Survey results — which are here — will be provided to selectors this week as well as to readers.

250-page Selector Data books – including company profiles — will be delivered to more than 70 selectors around the world this week, who will be completing their ballots in November. Profile data will be released to Biofuels Digest readers in November and subscribers will have an opportunity to vote for their favorites. The rankings will be announced on December 1, 2009.

Only the 70+ invited selectors and the 12,500+ subscribers of the Digest e-newsletters are eligible to vote in this year’s rankings. Digest readers who are not e-newsletter subscribers (i.e. the 30,000 monthly website visitors and 2,000+ RSS readers) will need to register for the newsletter in order to vote – as this allows us to ensure one vote per reader, eliminate the potential for ballot-stuffing campaigns, and permit a mechanism for auditing the votes to ensure fairness and accuracy.

Profiles will continue to be published in the Digest on a daily basis until all companies that registered and submitted a profile have had their profiles published.

52 company profiles have been published to date in the Digest. A complete list of profiles published to date is here.

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