In Belgium, the European Biodiesel Board expects that many European biodiesel producers will go out of business in the next few months as internal market demand slows and imports from cheaper producers continue to take advantage of the market. The EBB expects the EU will need to impose import barriers at some point in the […]
In the Netherlands, the UK’s Goes on Green plans to restart the 250,000 metric ton Sluiskil-based biodiesel plant it bought from Roosendaal Energy in February by the end of the year. The GOG plant will employ 24 personnel, initially. The GOG biodiesel plant also contains a designated deep water loading/unloading berth, 25,000m³ storage capacity, and […]
In Minnesota, Northern Technologies has been awarded a National Science Foundation Small Business Technology Transfer Phase II grant of $500,000 for the development of advanced polylactide materials for biobased and biodegradable plastic products. This award is a continuation of the successful Phase I project on the same topic, and will help NTIC develop and commercialize […]
In California, researchers at Stanford University have discovered that under the right conditions, E. coli can act as a super charged catalytic converter to turn sugars into diesel-type fuels. Though it’s not yet clear how to ensure the right conditions in all cases, the research funded by LS9 discovered that, they’ve found out that when […]
In Washington, Rep. Dan Boren (R-OK), in co-sponsoring a bill this past summer to eliminate the $0.51 per gallon VEETC subsidy, which went to obligated ethanol blenders, wrote: “The bottom-line is that our constituents don’t want it in their gas, they don’t want it in their cars, and I definitely don’t want it in my […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, recovered 0.62 percent to 74.29 as ethanol soared. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) fell 0.47 percent to $29.64, while Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) soared another 31.68 percent to $1.33. Among other equities, Biofuel Energy (BIOF) jumped 41.67 percent to $0.85. Overall, advances led […]
A first-to-market leader in bio-succinic acid comes to the public markets with its IPO. Can BioAmber translate a lead in succinic acid’s smallish market into leadership in a vast array of high-priced renewable chemicals? Here’s our 10-minute version of the BioAmber IPO, with a translation of the risks into English. In Minnesota, BioAmber has filed an […]
In Washington, an email circulated among top White House officials, calling for Secretary of Energy Steven Chu’s ouster over lack of progress on renewable energy, surfaced among subpeoned documents released to the House committee investigating Solyndra. The email, written by former Obama campaign insider Dan Carol, was written last February and warned of an escalating […]
In New York, the Finger Lakes Regional Economic Development Council has submitted its five-year economic strategy, in the hopes of earning up to $1 billion in state support. The proposal includes 10 projects that, if funded, could create thousands of jobs in the nine-county region. Among the projects is a US$300 million waste-to-ethanol plant at […]
In New Mexico, biofuels company, Joule Unlimited Inc., announced it is ready to start construction on a biofuels demonstration plant in New Mexico. Joule Unlimited Inc. plans to convert sunlight and carbon dioxide waste into biofuel at the planned facility in Hobbs, which is expected to begin operations in 2012. The plant is expected to […]
