In Missouri, Archer Daniel Midland is buying a soybean crushing and biodiesel facility in Deerfield from Prairie Pride and will develop a JV with the company for biodiesel production. Prairie Pride, Inc. is a new-generation producer cooperative formed of 1,000 farmers to convert soybeans into biodiesel fuel and soy meal. The facility began producing biodiesel […]
In New Jersey, Proterro has developed technology to produce sugar by using engineered cyanobacteria, photosynthetic organisms that can produce sucrose through a normally-occurring defense system. Their engineered cyanobacteria produces sucrose when the water they’re growing in is too salty. They claim that the water required to grow the cyanobacteria is much less than what is […]
In New York, Bloomberg New Energy Finance has announced its 2011 New Energy Pioneers. Among the winners were three companies in biofuels, water remediation and renewable chemicals. • BrightSource Energy BrightSource Energy designs, develops, builds and sells large-scale solar thermal power systems that deliver reliable, clean energy to utilities and industrial companies worldwide. • Green […]
In the UK, Middlesbrough-based AV Dawson has won the contract to run two trains a week moving around 158,000 metric tons of wheat a year from Ely to the Ensus ethanol plant at Wilton. The company will also transport the animal feed produced from the ethanol production process. More on the story.
In the UAE, biologist David Francis is looking for funding for a pilot study to test different methods of growing algae for biofuel, and believes “the UAE’s sun-drenched empty spaces could be just the ticket for the algae”, according to a report in The National. Francis identified, among UAE strengths: its research universities, a government […]
In Brazil, Bloomberg is reporting that Guarani will invest $475 million in expanding its cane-crushing capacity by 17 percent to 24.5 million metric tons, pledging to complete the expansion by 2015. The company said it has received more than $1 billion in new financing from BNDES, Rabobank International, BNP Paribas, Banco Bradesco SA, Credit Agricole […]
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In California, a new twist on the ILUC debate is the IFUC debate, or Indirect Fuel Use Change. The concept was launched late last year with some research from UC Berkeley and UCLA show that the net change in global fuel consumption due to biofuel policy mandates can have a significant impact on the net […]
In the Philippines, the country’s Tariff Commission says the impasse over ethanol tariffs has delayed the issuance of an executive order laying down the country’s Most Friendly Nation tariff structure for the period 2011 to 2015, but that a decision should be made as soon as the national congress goes to recess in the next […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, gained 0.45 percent to a new 33-month high of 94.56 as Gevo surged. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) was up 0.66 percent to $36.72, while Biofuel Energy (BIOF) fell 7.32 percent to $0.76. Among other equities, Gevo gained 9.85 percent to $23.41. […]
