In California, the state’s Energy Commission unanimously adopted its third annual transportation energy Investment Plan to help change the types of vehicles Californians drive and the fuels they use. The latest Investment Plan for the Energy Commission’s Alternative and Renewable Fuel and Vehicle Technology Program prioritizes $100 million in state funds to leverage funding and […]
Virent announced the appointment of David Hitchcock as the company’s first vice president of government affairs. Hitchcock will be based in Washington, D.C. to lead the company’s legislative and regulatory advocacy efforts to support commercialization of its bio-based fuels and chemical technologies.
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, rebounded 1.29 percent to 70.47 as advanced biofuels stocks recovered. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) was up 0.30 percent to $27.10, while Gushan (GU) jumped 5.86 percent to $2.35 . Among other equities, Solazyme (SZYM) soared 6.54 percent to $11.90. Overall, advances […]
Energy security and defense – biofuels are all over it. Most prominently, the US Navy’s Green Strike Group. Er, the Green Strike What? The US Navy has announced a Green Strike Group. What exactly is that, and what does it mean for energy security, and domestic biofuels production? Tactically, a Green Strike Group, powered by […]
By Michael Saks As an editor you live for stories like this. Stories that look made up and ridiculous but are totally true. Thus we have the prospect of alligator biofuel for the future of transportation. The idea boils down to using wasted alligator fat as fuel. Apparently alligator food processing plants, yes this appears […]
In Florida, Joule Unlimited and Terrabon opened up big first day leads in light voting on day one of the Final Four balloting in the 2011 Transformative Technologies tournament. “It’s been one of the lightest Mondays of the tournament,” commented Digest editor Jim Lane, “and ballots are generally building up in volume during the week. […]
In Nebraska, BioSyn is planning to build a $100 million biodiesel production facility in Bellevue that will produce 6,500 barrels of fuel per day originally from animal fats and vegetable oils but will later switch to newer technology based on switchgrasses or other crops for biodiesel or ethanol. The project does not yet have EPA […]
In Nebraska, NTR will sell part of its 31% stake in Green Plains Renewable Energy back to the company at $8 per share totaling $28 million for 3.5 million shares. NTR owns a total of 11.2 million shares. Green Plans will buy the shares back in two tranches, with half purchased within a week and […]
In the UK, the biofuel energy matrix is shifting with ethanol accounting for 41% of total biofuel supply during the year ending April 14. That’s a huge increase from 29% during the same period last year. The main feedstock for biofuels has become used cooking oil with the biodiesel representing 30% of overall biofuel supply, […]
In California, BioSolar has entered into a sales rep agreement with ShinHa, Inc, a Korean firm representing large Asian PV panel manufacturers targeting the North American solar market. Dr. David Lee, BioSolar’s CEO, states, “Our BioBacksheet, which costs less than incumbent backsheet with similar durability, has become very appealing to large Asian PV panel manufacturers […]
