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St.1 Biofuels Oy: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile
St. 1 Biofuels Oy
Based in: Finland
2008-09 rank: 28
Business: Continuous fermentation of ethanol. Subsidiary of Finnish privately owned energy company St1 Oy
3 Top Milestones for 2008?09
1. Building and opening four new plants utilizing different food industry waste and sidestreams. Feedstock is from local bakeries, potato processing plant, sweet manufacturing and brewery. Also old dated [...]
UN Environment Program launches Bioenergy Issue Paper Series to bring emerging bioenergy topics into focus
At the United Nations, the UN Environment Program has launched the UNEP Bioenergy Issue Paper Series: Bringing emerging bioenergy topics into focus. The UNEP Bioenergy Issue Paper Series will be releasing a new paper every month, and topics will be chosen as they appear.
The first issue is covering land use, land use change and bioenergy [...]
India and jatropha: Digest update looks at GM, TNAU
In India, Biofuels Digest special correspondent Joelle Brink writes to highlight GM’s agreement with the Central Salt and Marine Chemicals Research Institute in Gujarat. CSMCR agreed last March to produce jatropha for a GM fleet test.
“It was interesting in view of GM’s recent plan to sell cars from its Indian and Chinese subsidiaries in the [...]
Environmental Investigation Agency and Telapak say oil palm expansion in Papua is causing massive deforestation
In Papua New Guinea, the Environmental Investigation Agency (EIA) and Telapak have released a report on impact of oil palm plantation in Papua and Irian Jaya, according to the report’s authors, the largest remaining area of tropical forest in Indonesia, the Asia Pacific, and the third largest on Earth.
The report reveals how demand for biofuels [...]
Pros and cons of Ecuadorian carbon offset proposal; is avoidance the same value as CO2 reduction
In Ecuador, Biotropica published an article by scientists from University of Maryland, the World Resources Institute and Save America’s Forests hailing the Yasuní-ITT Initiative , which would sell offset certificates, linked to the value of the unreleased carbon, to provide alternative revenue to that which would come from exploiting the oil reserves in Yasuní National [...]
Brazilian Biodiesel Union says new B10/B20 standard will increase demand by 660 Mgy
In Brazil, the head of the Brazilian Biodiesel Union said that the national government’s proposal to move to a B20 biodiesel standard in major cities by 2015 – and a B10 standard throughout the country – would increase demand by 661 million gallons.
The BBU said that Brazilian biodiesel industry has a total capacity of 952 [...]
BioCube passes initial tests; compact biodiesel processor moves to Papua New Guinea for field trials
In Australia, BioCube has successfully completed testing at The Biofuel Partnerships Research and Development Centre in Queensland and is now being shipped to Papua New Guinea for 6-10 weeks of field trials in Lae, in an area that can provide coconut and jatropha feedstock. BioCube is a compact, fully integrated, community-sized biodiesel processor that can [...]
Ireland sets 4 percent biofuels mandate
In Ireland, Energy Minister Eamon Ryan announced that the Government has approved a Biofuels Obligation – with a 4% biofuels requirement in annual fuel sales. Biofuels used must produce 35% lower greenhouse gases than their fossil fuel comparators. In order for biofuels to be counted towards the obligation, they must meet the EU Sustainability Criteria [...]
Licht projects tighter ethanol fuel stocks in 2010
F.O. Licht has forecast a global ethanol surplus of around 185 million gallons in 2010, based on projected global consumption of 20.2 billion gallons. Licht managing director Christoph Berg told Reuters that “This surplus is desperately needed in order to maintain the supply chain; we need surpluses in order to keep the stocks-to-use ratio unchanged,” [...]
Thesis finds that increased land leasing, vs. land ownership, reduces productivity; lower capital gains taxes may stimulate yields
In Finland, a thesis by research scientist Sami Myyrä from MTT Agrifood Research Finland concluded that the readiness of tenant farmers to maintain the condition of their fields is diminished by substantial land tenure insecurity, and that the tenant farming system contributes to “a low-productivity trap in which no one, whether tenant farmer or landowner, [...]
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The 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy - Sponsored by Core Informatics
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1. Coskata
2. Sapphire Energy
3. Virent Energy Systems
4. POET
5. Range Fuels
6. Solazyme
7. Amyris Biotechnologies
8. Mascoma
9. DuPont Danisco
10. UOP
11. ZeaChem
12. Aquaflow Bionomic
13. Bluefire Ethanol
14. Novozymes
15. Qteros
16. Petrobras
17. Cobalt Biofuels
18. Iogen
19. Synthetic Genomics
20. Abengoa Bioenergy
21. KL Energy
22. Ineos
23. GreenFuel
24. Vital Renewable Energy
25. LS9
26. Raven Biofuels
27. Gevo
28. St.1 Biofuels Oy
29. Primafuel
30. Taurus Energy
31. Ceres
32. Syngenta
33. Aurora Biofuels
34. Bionavitas
35. Algenol
36. Verenium
37. Simply Green
38. Carbon Green
39. SEKAB
40. Osage Bioenergy
41. Dynamotive
42. Sustainable Power
43. ETH Bioenergia
44. Choren
45. OriginOil
46. Propel Fuels
47. GEM Biofuels
48. Lake Erie Biofuels
49. Cavitation Technologies
50. Lotus/Jaguar – Omnivore -
