In Mozambique, Petrobras may invest in an ethanol plant with production specifically intended for the domestic market in order to help supply the 10% blending mandate set to begin in 2012. If the plant is built, it will be done via Guarani, with whom Petrobras also jointly owns a sugar factor in Marromeu.
In Brazil, Petrobras expects the country to import less than 1 million cubic meters of ethanol during 2011 while exporting more than 2 million. The company says that all organizations with the ability and opportunity to import ethanol are doing so at the moment. Petrobras itself expects to invest $1.3 billion overall by 2015 with […]
Today on Twitter. EthanolRFA: Dear President Obama. RFA writes to the President as he tours rural communities in the Upper Midwest … #ethanol GrowthEnergy: How can Washington Green America’s #economy? @TomBuisGE answers: #ethanol key to US job creation #biochat #agchat fuelinggood: KCGA’s White (@kscornhead) lauds E85’s higher octane, lower price ENERGY: The science behind making […]
US Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Lisa P. Jackson will travel to Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, with the mayor of Philadelphia and representatives from US industry, government, academia and non-governmental organizations including, CH2MHILL, Morgan Stanley, Microsoft Corporation, Alcoa, the Rockefeller Foundation, Harvard University, C40 Cities and others to establish the United States-Brazil Joint Initiative on Urban […]
In the Philippines, the International Sugar Organization’s Executive Director says that ethanol-blending mandates are ‘spreading like bushfires and this is irreversible’, a trend he sees as capping sugar production especially in countries such as India, Thailand and Brazil.
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, soared 3.61 percent to 76.72, as renewables broadly began recovery from last week’s equity meltdown. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) rose 3.70 percent to $28.29, while Gevo (GEVO) roared back 16.43 percent to $12.33. Among other equities, Solazyme (SZYM) bounded up 11.68 […]
In Florida, #3 seed Raizen was in early trouble with voters in the first round of the 2011 Transformative Technologies tournament, with 14th seeded Abengoa Bioenergy taking 62 percent of the votes in first morning polling in their week-long one-on-one contest. The Raizen-Abengoa match was one of two “Goliath vs Goliath” matchups. In the other, […]
In Iowa, Tim Pawlenty, the center-right Governor of Minnesota who took a policy of opposing ethanol support into the closely-watched Iowa Republican Party straw poll, exited the race after badly trailing fellow Minnesotan Michelle Bachmann in the poll and running third, overall. Bachmann is committed to a review of all energy subsidies, while Republican front-runner […]
“Transformative Technologies 2011” kicks off with 1st-round voting. Who’s the Best? This week: Goliath vs Goliath, David vs Goliath, “8 vs 9” contests to watch, plus a SynthBio blow-out with Sapphire Energy, Mendel, Synthetic Genomics and Ceres in the mix. In Florida, Amyris, Gevo, Solazyme and Coskata landed the top four seeds in the 2011 […]
Here are the Complete match-ups in the 2011 Transformative Technologies Tournament. Links take you to a summary of the match-up, including company profiles. East Regional #1 Coskata vs #16 Range Fuels #2 KiOR vs #15 Butamax #3 Mascoma vs #14 PetroAlgae #4 Qteros vs #13 Inbicon #5 Algenol vs #12 Monsanto #6 Dupont vs #11 […]
