In New Mexico, Core Biofuels has left its location in the North Valley neighborhood of Albuquerque after neighbors complained of the smell and a local TV station took on the case. Bernalillo County charged the company for operating without a license, a charge which has since been dropped because the company left its location.
In France, the ministry of economy, finance and industry has launched a website that shows each of the 339 gas stations offering E85 in the country, listed by department. Not only is the gas station listed, along with the brand and address—including if it’s located on the highway—but also the price of the E85 and […]
In Malaysia, Canada’s Dynamotive Energy Systems has signed a non-binding memorandum of understanding with Genting Bio-Oil Sdn to explore cooperation for the development of pyrolysis oil market in South East Asia. In the initial six-month phase of the cooperation, the parties aim to: obtain knowledge of pyrolysis oil production market and its development potential in […]
In India, IndiaOil has signed a memorandum of understanding with the government’s Department of Biotechnology to set up a Centre for Advanced Research on Bioenergy that will develop second and third generation biofuels at a cost of $11.6 million over the next five years. The costs will be split evenly by the two organizations.
In California, BioSolar’s BioBacksheet reports that they are collaborating with multiple PV panel manufacturers to introduce PV panels incorporating BioBacksheet at the upcoming GovGreen Conference. The conference is intended for the benefit of government purchasing personnel so they can be introduced to products which are green in nature, and is scheduled for November 30th to […]
Today on Twitter. CapitaRenewAble: Science behind making #biofuels cheaper — what we’re doing to make it more competitive with #oil CareerAndBizOps: Peterson questions federal biofuels plan: Minnesota’s senior congressman said that the plan administration officials… SugarcaneBlog: Where is the Cellulosic Ethanol? ExJon: “Well Timmy, I’ll steal from other kids’ grandpas.” MT @jaketapper 11-yr-old asks POTUS […]
In Virginia, a new study from the University of Virginia casts doubt over the environmental credentials of algae as feedstock for biofuel. Though less transportation energy is used when algae is a feedstock versus when switchgrass or other farmed biomass is a feedstock, algae requires much more energy and water for processing than other biomass. […]
In Iowa, Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry is expected to have a hard time running for office in pro-ethanol states due to his attempt to get the EPA to cut back ethanol blending in 2008 while he was governor of Texas. The move was at the behest of livestock producers who believed the ethanol mandate […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, slipped 0.23 percent to 75.09 as advanced biofuels fell as a class . For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) advanced 1.03 percent to $28.33, while Solazyme (SZYM) tumbled 4.03 percent to $16.45. Among other equities, Biox (BX.T) plunged 15.79 percent to $0.80. Overall, […]
The Digest’s Take: A magnificent start, now its industry’s turn The President’s plan, announced in March, was to ensure the building of four integrated biorefineries and thereby jumpstart the race for scale in advanced biofuels. Given the debt and spending travails of the government – using existing funding was a realistic “must” – so there […]
