The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, gained 0.42 percent to 93.60 as advanced biofuels surged. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) fell 1.00 percent to $35.69, while OriginOil (OOIL.OB) advanced 5.88 percent to $0.18. Among other equities, Gevo (GEVO) jumped 2.49 percent to $20.61. Overall, advances and declines were […]
What’s next for bioenergy, after the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference? The Paris Air Show beckons as aviation biofuels looms as a breakout opportunity for investment and deployment. The Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference, which featured 450 bioenergy leaders representing 300 organizations, including 120 C-level executives, has adjourned until April 2012 in Washington, DC. Highlights from the […]
In an original essay published today at biofuelsdigest.com, “Wastewater-based fertilization of bioenergy crops,” environmental attorney Steven Medina writes: “He intensively grows corn for ethanol in clay soil that once grew corn for bootleg liquor and a variety of other crops to varying degrees of success, allowing my mother’s family to survive but never thrive. He […]
In Iowa, Frontline BioEnergy announced that it has completed its Series B financing, and a set of transactions with SGC Energia that will bring new capital investment to Frontline, an agreement for SGC Energia to license Frontline gasification and gas conditioning technologies and a multi-year contract for Frontline to provide a range of engineering services […]
In Illinois, the Center for Advanced Bioenergy Research at the University of Illinois is in the third year of offering a bioenergy curriculum via the professional science master’s program. In addition to receiving training in the general field of bioenergy, students gain relevant professional experience in business and related topics through coursework and an internship. […]
In Maryland, chicken fat biodiesel producer Greenlight is seeking permission from Somerset County Commissioners to waive a portion of a personal property tax bill in order to try and get the facility—which suffered from an explosion in 2008—back online by the end of the year. It also owes $58,000 plus $10,000 interest on its 2009-10 […]
In Pakistan, ethanol exports were seen at about 85,000 metric tons during the first quarter of 2011 with South Korea, the Netherlands, Turkey, the Philippines, Singapore, Japan, the United Arab Emirates, Taiwan and Indonesia as main destinations. More on the story.
In China, the Tianguan Group plans to invest in a 500,000 m3 of biogas unit adjacent to its existing ethanol facility in Nan Yang in the province of Henan. The biogas unit will produce the equivalent of about 36MW of electricity. More on the story.
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In California, top researchers at the University of California, Berkeley have formed the UC Berkeley Synthetic Biology Institute to advance efforts to engineer cells and biological systems in ways that promise to transform technology in health and medicine, energy, the environment, new materials, and a host of other critical arenas. The institute is launching collaborative […]
