In Florida, Biofuels Digest released the names of more than 150 companies that are, to date, committed to participating in the 2012 Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference, which will take place April 2-5, 2012 at the Capital Hilton in Washington, DC. ABLC 2012 will be host to five interactive conferences: Renewable Chemicals Live on April 2, […]
BlueFire Renewables’ low-cost sugars subsidiary, SucreSource, announces a major project in Korea backed by oil refiner GS Caltex. Who else is gaining traction in the race to provide low-cost sugars? A generation of magic bugs — who turn sugars into renewable fuels, chemicals, flavors, fragrances and more — await them. In California, SucreSource, a wholly […]
In Texas, Raymond James analyst Pavel Molchanov issued a new report, “Gen2 Biofuel Feedstocks: The Coming Surge in Energy Crops and Cellulosic Sugars.” Molchanov writes: As energy investors know well, it is much better to own the oil than to refine it. In other words, the bulk of the value is in the upstream of […]
Codexis, Mascoma show that low-cost sugar is the key, as advanced biofuels moves from R&D into industrial era There used to be a restaurant in lower Manhattan called Exterminator Chili. Decorated in Elvis garb, it served world-class chili for the enlightened chow hound, in three grades of heat: residential (hot), commercial (blistering), and industrial […]
Codexis, Mascoma show that low-cost sugar is the key, as advanced biofuels moves from R&D into industrial era There used to be a restaurant in lower Manhattan called Exterminator Chili. Decorated in Elvis garb, it served world-class chili for the enlightened chow hound, in three grades of heat: residential (hot), commercial (blistering), and industrial […]
Advanced biofuels, chemicals capacity to reach 5.11B gallons by 2015; 207 projects now tracked; 79 project updates, 27 countries. In Florida, Biofuels Digest released version 2.0 of its free Advanced Biofuels & Chemicals Project Database, which tracks advanced biofuels and renewable chemicals capacity for the 2011-2016 period. The database is available for free download. Project […]
Solazyme edges Amyris, Gevo in Hot 50 for 2011-12, as hot IPOs dominate, gasification advances. In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced that Renewable oils developer Solazyme took the #1 spot in the 2011-12 “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy” rankings. Amyris (#2), Gevo (#3), POET (#4), LS9 (#5), Novozymes (#6), Enerkem (#7), LanzaTech (#8), Honeywell’s UOP (#9), […]
As the new Hot 50 looms, we look at how much hotter, colder the current Hot 50 have been this year. Who will stay on the island, who is waiting in the wings? Readers: Subscriber and selector voting in the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy for 2011-12 winds up shortly, and we will announce the […]
Touting its ultra low-cost cellulosic sugars, Renmatix presses hard on the hype button. But could this re-think of Sriya really have the goods? Yesterday on Twitter, a cryptic but steady stream of messages began to fly in during the afternoon regarding Renmatix, whose story was picked up by Fast Company in a breathless-titled short article, […]
There’s a new way of understanding advanced industrial biotech – how land, capital and labor are organized, where it is going, and why. Are we discovering a new way, or something so ancient it feels new all over again? It has been an exciting week in industrial biotech. Elevance filed for its IPO, as it […]
