In South Africa, agriculture and property group, Tongaat Hulett, announced that electricity generation and ethanol production from sugarcane could help South Africa save and create thousands of local jobs, mainly in rural areas. The Company calculated that the introduction of electricity as a core product from sugarcane has the potential to protect 20,000 direct jobs […]
In Canada, one of the world’s largest grain processors, Archer Daniels Midland, announced plans to build a 70-million gallon biodiesel plant in Lloydminster, Alberta, Canada, increasing its North American biodiesel production capacity by 50 percent. The new plant will be located adjacent to the company’s existing canola-crushing facility, which the company is also expanding. The […]
In Canada, Flexible Solutions announced that their aspartic acid from sugar has reached commercial operating status at their Taber Alberta facility. Flexible stated that the next step is to increase production at the new plant. Production ramp up is expected to take several months given this process is a bio-chemical process as well as a […]
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In Utah, two Salt Lake City high school students have invented a new way of making biodiesel, and have applied for a patent. Using leftover cooking oil from a Chinese restaurant owned by one of their parents, the students start with the traditional method of mixing oil with methanol and potassium hydroxide. Then two students […]
In Washington, a top official with the US Environmental Protection Agency, which regulates motor fuels, recently told lawmakers that butanol is one of the nation’s “most promising biofuels.” However, according to companies that plan to make the fuel, butanol faces potential government barriers that provide an advantage to ethanol. These include a special exemption in […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, fell 1.31 percent to 73.83 as advanced bio felt pressure from a retreat in global equities. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) gained 0.30 percent to $29.78, while Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) soared another 16/09 percent to $1.01. Among other equities, Bluefire Renewables (BFRE.OB) […]
In Minnesota, BioAmber has filed an S-1 registration statement for a proposed $150 million initial public offering. The number of shares to be offered and the price range for the offering have not yet been determined. The lead book-running managers for the offering are Goldman, Sachs & Co. and Credit Suisse Securities (USA) LLC. The additional […]
Cellulosic biofuels are behind schedule. Can they catch up? What are the barriers, the roles to be played by Washington, developers alike? What are the opportunities for the retail investor? A downloadable report from Pavel Molchanov and Raymond James assesses the space. In California, Raymond James renewable energy analyst Pavel Molchanov released a foundational report […]
By Ted Hansen, General Manager, Greenwood Energy According to USDA.gov in September, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture, Tom Vilsack, announced major agricultural research projects to develop regional, renewable energy markets, generate jobs and decrease America’s dependence on foreign oil. The five-year program would deliver more than $136 million in research and development grants to public and […]
