The 10 Top Biofuels Stories of the Year

8. Top 10 Biofuels Predictions for 2013

Editor’s Note: It’s an annual feature — the top 10 predictions of the year, and never is an article more  nervously prepared as the Digesterati attempt to pick the trends for the upcoming year. So far, the trend predictions have been relatively in line with the year’s newsflow — but the year-end is a long way off, and there’s still plenty of time for reality to knock the prognosticators off their perches.

As the sunset of 2012 gives way to the dawn of 2013, here at the Digest we resist the holiday temptation to look back over the challenges and highlights of the year gone by, and instead once again roll the dice as we list the Digest’s 10 Top Biofuels Predictions for 2013.

1. Fiscal cliff.

2. US ethanol blend wall – E15 and blender pumps.

3. US ethanol blend wall – Alternative molecules and feedstocks.

4. RFS2.

5. Hot Markets.

6. Finance.

7. Technology.

8. Scale-up.

9. Cellulosic ethanol via fermentation.

10. Downstream.