The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, jumped 2.57 percent to 72.19 as advanced biofuels equities broadly recovered. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) advanced 3.59 percent to $28.25, while Gevo (GEVO) soared 12.87 percent to $11.40 . Among other equities, Solazyme (SZYM) gained 6.62 percent to $14.50. Overall, advances […]
Can synthetic biology capture and utilize atmospheric CO2? And make money? And mitigate the carbon intensity of no-no feedstocks like coal, gas and oil? Opening up new paths towards low-cost domestic energy security? Beyond the entire range of conventional and advanced biofuels – or biomass-to-liquid technologies (BTL), lie a range of Coal-to-liquid, and Gas-to-liquid options […]
In California, AltAir Fuels plans to build a biojet plant in Bakersfield that will begin producing fuel in 2012. As a result, farmers in the Central and San Joaquin valleys are being encouraged to grow 25,000 acres of camelina under the Biomass Crop Assistance Program. The five-year contracts are being offered by the US Farm […]
In Pennsylvania, Clearfield Bionol plant—which filed for Chapter 11 liquidation in July and is expected to be auctioned off in the next month or two—has won $230 million in a court case against Getty Petroleum Marketing who had signed an offtake agreement for almost all of the plant’s ethanol production. The contract, signed in 2007, […]
In Minnesota, Syngenta filed a complaint in U.S. District Court for the Northern District of Iowa against Bunge North America, alleging that Bunge is attempting to block the legal merchandising of the Agrisure Viptera trait The trait provides control of 14 insects including corn borer, corn rootworm and the multi-pest complex, a collection of insects […]
In the EU, several member states have increased their national biofuels blending quotas in 2011 in comparison with 2010 on the basis of energy content: Finland: from 4 % to 6 %, Poland: from 5.75 % to 6.2 % Italy: from 3.5 to 4 % Spain: from 5.83 % to 7 % Bulgaria: from 3.5 […]
In Vietnam, PetroVietnam has reached a deal with the authorities of central Quang Ngai Province to jointly invest and develop ethanol production and supply in the regional market. PetroVietnam’s ethanol plant in Quang Ngai will begin trials in October and come online on Nov. 15. It will be the duty of the regional government to […]
In Zimbabwe, the Agriculture, Mechanisation and Irrigation Development secretary says pressure groups allegedly planted emissaries masquerading as villagers during Prime Minister Morgan Tsvangirai’s recent visit to the Chisumbanje ethanol plant under development, claiming they had lost their agricultural land due to the project. “We were shocked to hear that villagers in Chisumbanje woke up without […]
In California, Genomatica announced its successful production of pound quantities of butadiene made from renewable feedstocks. This achievement confirms the technical viability of Genomatica’s bio-based manufacturing process for the dedicated, on-purpose production of butadiene. Butadiene is one of the seven basic chemicals at the core of the chemical industry and is an important ingredient used […]
Today on Twitter. Farm_Investment: Biofuels Truth Express DomesticFuel: Biofuel Offering to Expand in Western U.S.: The network of biofuels stations in the west will be expanding … taghioff: How connected is this 1) to extreme weather 2) to biofuels 3) to speculation? AirportWatch: Aviation Biofuels – NOT the brilliantly “sustainable” solution the industry makes out. […]
