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EPA wavers on E15 waiver deadline, as ethanol awakens: overcapacity looming anew?

The Long and short of ethanol production: first-gen ethanol may be long again, while cellulsoic ethanol continues to look short on 2010 production targets.
According to a report in Reuters, the EPA is reportedly warning that it may not meet an expected December 1st deadline for a decision on allowing E15 ethanol to be blended with [...]

Closing down $24 billion biofuels tax credit loophole: a good idea (here’s why)

In Washington, the Health Care Bill passed the US House of Representatives and included — as part of a 42-page “manager’s amendment”, a provision striking a biofuel tax credit used by pulp and paper firms that could have been worth up to $24 billion. According to a report in FOX News, “That’s desperately needed revenue [...]

Biofuels Digest job portal: POET, Synthetic Genomics, the Donald Danforth Plant Center, Phycal, Valero, Areva, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Sriya Innovation, Sirona Fuel and KL Energy hiring

The Biofuels Digest job portal is current featuring positions with: POET, Synthetic Genomics, the Donald Danforth Plant Center, Phycal, Valero, Areva, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Sriya Innovation, Sirona Fuel and KL Energy, among others – openings in SD, MN, WA, CT, CA, NY, GA, KS, CO, PA, NE, IA, TX, OK and WI among other US [...]

Jim Lane’s “Citizen Cane: Essays for New Days in Bioenergy” published; free PDF for Digest subscribers

Digest readers: Today,  the new book “Citizen Cane: Essays for New Days in Bioenergy” by Biofuels Digest editor Jim Lane is available in PDF format for subscribers at the usual Biofuels Digest “low, low price of free”.
(Note to web and RSS readers: the book is available free to newsletter subscribers; to sign up and qualify [...]

Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: Reality, and Codexis

REALITY – How Broad is Your Customer Platform?

Bioenergy PROFITS Principle – Reality
Successful companies build core areas of content.  This may be a technology platform or a basic product upon which to expand. This core is the basic element though you may later customize your offerings,
What can you do to deal most effectively with [...]

50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy: Complete candidate profiles and company registration information

The 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy rankings  for 2009-10 will be released Tuesday, 12/1.

Rules and procedures
Register your company
Candidate profiles
Aquaflow Bionomic
Balboa Pacific
BARD
Bioalgene
BioFuelBox
Biolight Harvesting
Blue Marble Energy
BlueFire Ethanol
BP Biofuels
Ceres
Chemrec
Cobalt Biofuels
Codexis
Comet Biorefining
Continental Technologies
Coskata
Diversified Energy
DSM White Biotechnology
Dynamic Fuels
Dynamotive
EdeniQ
Enerkem
Enhanced Biofuels
Fulcrum BioEnergy
Genencor
GeoSynFuels
Gevo
GlycosBio
Ineos Bio
Joule Biotechnologies
KL Energy
LS9
LanzaTech
Martek
Mascoma
Novozymes
Piedmont Biofuels
Plankton Power
POET
Praj Industries
PureVision Technology
Range Fuels
Raven Biofuels
Remediation Earth
Remfuel
Renewable Energy Group
Rentech
SEKAB
SG Biofuels
Solazyme
Sriya Innovations
StormFisher Biogas
Qteros
Terrabon
Targeted Growth
ThermoChem Recovery
TMO [...]

The song remains the same: Bioenergy producers plea for US help on finance; feedstock stability a key; solutions in the student loan response?

In Washington, USDA Agriculture Undersecretary Dallas Tonsager said in congressional testimony that the credit crunch for advanced biofuels developers has much to do with lender disaffection with first-generation ethanol following the VeraSun bankruptcy, and the upside down economics of the 2008-09 feedstock and fuel markets. He also said that, while two more USDA loan guarantees [...]

Biofuels Heaven or Hell: Hot technologies, deep-pocketed investors and stable feedstock outlook brings promise after tough times

Generally recognized “hot technologies”, deep-pocketed investors, and a plentiful supply of raw material at stable prices: a recipe for growth in almost any industrial sector, but something felt to be elusive in the biofuels sector — with a general feeling that solar and battery technologies had received more attention, investors were hard to find and [...]

Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: “You Cannot Be Everything For Everyone”

YOU CANNOT BE EVERYTHING FOR EVERYONE….

What is growth in your industry?  For most, it is expansion, profitability or some other measures indicating success.  There is usually risk taking involved and the expectation is that this risk will reap rewards in the near future.
Position Only For Growth is essential to growing any business, and [...]

ThermoChem Recovery: 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile

ThermoChem Recovery International (TRI)
Based in: Maryland
2008-09 ranking: Unranked
Business: Steam reforming gasification. TRI’s medium-BTU syngas can be converted into a wide range of downstream biofuel and biochemical products.  Since 2003, a TRI gasifier has been in commercial-scale operation at Norampac’s Trenton (Ontario) containerboard mill, gasifying black liquor (solid biomass equivalent: 500 dry tons per day).  [...]