In Japan, ITOCHU reports they have started production and sales of ethanol in Brazil through a joint venture with Bunge, Pedro Afonso Acucar e Bioenergia. The Pedro Alfonso plant started operations in May at its full capacity of 2.5 million tons per year of sugar cane processing, and BioEnergy has plans to expand its capacity […]
In China, China Integrated Energy has downgraded their guidance for 2011 net income by $31 million dollars. Earlier this year, the company anticipated $588 million in sales with a net income of $72 million, but they are now expecting $497 million in sales, with only $41 million in net income. CBEH cited several reasons, including […]
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In California, Mary Solecki and Bob Epstein of E2 and David Richey of the Goldman School of Public Policy released a monumentally good read and one of the best primers available on advanced biofuels, with their Advanced Biofuel Market Report 2011: Meeting the California LCFS. t examines the market’s ability to meet the low-carbon fuel […]
In Washington, a coalition including Growth Energy, Advanced Ethanol Council, American Coalition for Ethanol, National Corn Growers Association, National Farmers Union, National Sorghum Producers and the Renewable Fuels Association is opposing a series of amendments offered by Reps. John Sullivan, R-Okla., Gary Peters, D-Mich., and Michael Burgess, R-Texas, that would block the legal implementation of […]
In California, Codexis appointed Pedro I. Mizutani, Executive Vice President-Upstream Business for Raízen Energia Participacoes S.A. and former CEO of Cosan Sugar and Ethanol to the Codexis’ Board of Directors. In California, Rogerio Manso has joined Solazyme as its Chief Commercialization Officer, and is charged with leading the company’s global commercialization efforts for their tailored […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, edged up 0.09 percent to 86.91 as KiOR joined the Index’s roster of 30 equities. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) dropped 2.50 percent to $30.81, while Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) soared 10.20 percent to $1.08. Among other equities, Amyris (AMRS) retreated 3.19 percent […]
Do biofuels encourage rainforest deforestation through indirect land use change? The effect is negligible or non-existent, concludes a landmark test of ILUC theory against hard data, as the biofuels hammer gets hammered. In Michigan, Dr. Seungdo Kim and Dr. Bruce E. Dale of Michigan State University have published a study in the July 2011 […]
In Texas, Aventine Renewable Energy Holdings announced plans to restart production at one of its ethanol facilities located in Aurora East, Nebraska. The plant has been idle since late April, but the Company has now completed improvements to the fermentation process and expects to restart production immediately.
In Massachusetts, Joule Unlimited Technologies received its first two US patents, covering its fundamental method for producing ethanol at volumes and efficiencies far surpassing biomass-dependent processes. The patents relate to methods for increasing the ethanol production capability of a photosynthetic microorganism. Unlike competing technologies that utilize microorganisms to produce ethanol by fermenting sugars from cellulose […]
