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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 [...]

Bioenergy PROFITS Principles: PetroAlgae, Flexibility, “and the Market Does What the Market Does”

AND THE MARKET DOES WHAT THE MARKET DOES

One phenomenon we can say about the market, even with all the mathematical models and predictions – it is full of surprises.  In the current fast-paced and fickle marketplace, companies must respond to customers’ changing requirements quickly.
The Challenge:  Adapting Flexibly to Change
Let’s say that you discover [...]

Benjamins for Biofuels, Part V (conclusion); More reader reaction, concepts for a way forward

Over the past week, we have reviewed who is getting the benjamins (i.e. money) in bioenergy now, horror stories regarding delays at DOE and USDA, the possibility of shenanigans in the financing provided to Fisker Automotive by the Department of Energy, and all kinds of feedback from readers near and far.
In today’s concluding report we [...]

Mississippi Delta could be home to $8 billion bioenergy economy, 25,000 jobs by 2019, study finds

In Tennessee, the Memphis Bioworks Foundation released a report by the Battelle Technology Partnership Practice concluding that 36 million acres in the Mississippi Delta could produce biofuels and bioplastics feedstocks , resulting in an $8 billion economy and 25,000 jobs by 2019.
The region could produce 50,000 bioeconomy jobs in the next 20 years, the study [...]

International Bioenergy and Bioproducts Conference comes to Memphis in October

In Tennessee, the International Bioenergy and Bioproducts Conference will be held in Memphis October 14 through 16. The conference will focus on how to best use the resources, knowledge and assets in the pulp and paper industry to produce bioenergy and bioproducts. Speakers from the University of Tennessee, USDA, Virent, Lignol, Chicago Climate Exchange, DOE [...]

Who’s Your Daddy’s Daddy?: a look at Bioenergy and Washington lobbying

In Washington, the Center for Public Integrity released a report on lobbying over the impending Climate Bill, and reported that 13 bioenergy companies plus several trade groups registered to lobby Congress for the first time on global warming.
Companies that popped up for the first time to lobby on climate change include: Algenol Biofuels, the American [...]

Pew Charitable Trusts reports 770,000 green jobs in ‘07, growing nearly three times as fast as mainstream job sectors

In Washington, the Pew Charitable Trusts released its Clean Energy Economy report, the first state-by-state survey of green-collar jobs. Pew found that green-collar job hiring increased 9 percent between 1998-2007, more than double the rate of conventional jobs, but slowed during the recession.
Pew said that 68,200 businesses filled 770,000 clean energy jobs in 2007, with [...]

Singapore’s Nanyang University launches Energy Research Institute

In Singapore, Nanyang Technological University announced the establishment of its Energy Research Institute @ NTU (ERI@N)  that will include as many as  six research centres and institutes.
ERI@N aims to build and develop core capabilities in energy technologies through high-quality collaborative research and development and training of skilled professionals for the industry.
The Institute will act as [...]

US Chamber of Commerce publishes survey of attitudes to investment in Africa as US falls behind Europe, China in key bioenergy investment zone

In South Africa, the US Chamber of Commerce and Baird’s DMC released a survey of US corporate attitudes toward African foreign direct investment.
US investment in Africa has lagged significantly behind Europe and China in bioenergy, and the survey explores concerns and barriers.  Primarily, execs pointed to a “difficult business case — executives find that any [...]

Poland, Germany create joint bioenergy research group for feedstock development

In Poland, the Polish Minister for Agriculture Marek Sawicki and German Ag Minister Ilse Aigner jointly announced an alliance for cooperation on the development of bioenergy feedstocks.
They announced the establishment of a task force group, Bio-GEPOIT that will be coordinated by the Polish Research Institute
of Construction, Mechanics and Electricity, and the German Biomass Research Center [...]