n California, Codexis and Raizen Energia, the Shell-Cosan JV with annual production capacity of over 2 billion liters of ethanol and a retail network of 4500 fuel stations and 24 sugar mills, announced the signing of a joint development agreement to deploy the Codexis CodeEvolver directed evolution technology platform to improve Raizen’s current process for […]
In Michigan, Renewable Energy Technologies has purchased a 173,000 square feet empty factory in the town of Holland to site its first waste-to-ethanol plant. It had found a site earlier in the year but the deal fell through, which is fine since that site was only half the site of this new one. A considerable […]
In Texas, BP has leased 300 acres from Henderson Liberty Farms in Liberty County to grow energy cane that will then be used as seed cane when planted on a further 3,400 acres next year. BP is planning a 70 million gallon per year cellulosic ethanol plant, and though the exact siting hasn’t yet been […]
In the Philippines, the Philippine National Oil Co.-Alternative Fuels Corp is in talks regarding an exploratory 1,000 hectare sweet sorghum plantation in Negros Occidental that would be feedstock for the country’s first ethanol production using the crop. Investment estimates are up to $1.73 million, and the feedstock would be processed at the San Carlos Bioenergy […]
In Canada, Milligan Bio-Tech is undergoing an $8 million expansion at its biodiesel facility in Foam Lake that will bring total annual production up to 20 million liters annually. The facility is currently producing 4 million liters, but the expansion should be online in November, making it Western Canada’s largest biodiesel producer. The facility uses […]
In New Zealand, the Vice Premier of China and the Deputy Prime Minister of New Zealand were among the representatives at a signing ceremony for a new JV between China’s Shougang Group and LanzaTech, to construct a demonstration plant at one of Shougang’s steel mills in China, then to quickly follow with a commercial production […]
In Oregon, Trellis Earth, a maker of bio-based alternative materials, has filed with the SEC in preparation for an IPO of four million shares of common stock between $5 and $6 per share. The offer is being made through Aegis Capital Corp. If successful, this IPO could raise between $20 and $24 million dollars. Trellis […]
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In Washington state, Imperium Renewables and the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory are developing a catalytic process being developed at PNNL that converts biomass-based alcohols into renewable drop-in jet fuels. Imperium entered into the project in July 2010 through a collaborative research agreement with Battelle, the nonprofit research organization that manages PNNL for DOE. The ultimate […]
In Washington, the House of Representatives is working on a compromise deal that would partly rescue the ethanol blenders credit that the Senate had voted to eliminate in June. The Fencepost reports U.S. Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo.’s spokeswoman Rachel Boxer said the congressman hasn’t seen the details of the new proposal, “but is optimistic that […]
