All Entries Tagged With: "New Zealand"
Solid Energy reports New Zealand biodiesel market is slow, wood pellets booming
In New Zealand, Solid Energy reported that it produced 12,500 tonnes of wood pellets and 193,000 gallons of waste cooking oil biodiesel in the past year, saying that its biodiesel business struggled in the 2008-09 fiscal year due to changes in national mandates, poor yields from rapeseed crops and falling biodiesel rices. However, the company [...]
Ecodiesel makes $3.3 million debt offer to fund expansion of New Zealand tallow biodiesel plant
In New Zealand, NBR is reporting that Ecodiesel is raising $3.3 million to take its tallow biodiesel plant from pilot to commercial scale. The project developers said that they would eventually raise up to $110 million to bring capacity in the Onehunga-based project to 5 Mgy capacity. The company uses animal waste from meat plants. [...]
New Zealand cleantech fund seeks Kiwi investment opportunities in renewables
In New Zealand, the Herald is reporting that the Rutherford Innovation Fund is looking to invest up to $50 million in cleantech companies with New Zealand companies or companies with operations in the country.
The fund, raised by Milestone Capital, has already invested in algae pioneer Aquaflow Bionomic as well as Carbonscape, a carbon capture and [...]
New Zealand scraps fuel economy standard, confirms biodiesel grants through 2012
In New Zealand, the national government has scrapped plans for a national fuel economy standard. It had been rumored that a cap-and-trade system was in the cards, where less fuel efficient vehicles would have been required to pay for credits and highly fuel efficient vehicles would have received them.
Instead, the government confirmed plans to include [...]
50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy candidate profile: Aquaflow Bionomic
50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy: Aquaflow Bionomic
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Based in: New Zealand
2008-09 ranking: #12
Business: Aquaflow has developed technology to harvest wild algae from municipal sewage ponds, farm outflows or rivers. Aquaflow’s manufactures 40-feet containers which can be deployed in remote locations, and scaled. The company’s approach avoids upfront capital costs of other algae-based fuel technologies based on [...]
Earthrace skipper blasts NZ gov’t: “a Kiwi beat a world record using a bio-fuelled boat, but we can’t get biofuels in our own country.”
In New Zealand, Pete Bethune, skipper of the round-the-world speedboat Earthrace, said that “It is ironic that a Kiwi beat a world record using a bio-fuelled boat, but we can’t get biofuels in our own country. I am embarrassed that the world thinks of New Zealand as a leader in biofuels because of the success [...]
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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 -
