In Washington, US ethanol producers are risk of losing their third largest buyer of dried distillers grains—China—if the country is successful in its trade complaint at the WTO. The charges are thought to be in retaliation for U.S. charges against Chinese wind power subsidies. More on the story.
In Wisconsin, Danisco has lost a summary judgment attempting to invalidate Novozyme’s patent on a competing alpha amylase enzyme used in ethanol production at high temperature. The case is now expected in court in October. More on the story.
In Sweden, the European Commission has granted the national government permission under state aid rules to give Domsjö Fabriker AB $77.7 million to develop a demonstration plant for the production of biomethanol and other biofuels from pulp mill residue material. More on the story.
In India, the major sugarcane-producing state of Maharashtra has so far delivered 14.5 million liters of ethanol to state-run oil companies out of an expected 350 million liters this season. The state’s E5 demand requires 139 million liters. More on the story.
In Germany, 2010 ethanol production reached 752 million liters, up from 749 million liters in 2009. Production is currently limited by total installed capacity so requires more investment in production in order to increase its supply availability. More on the story.
In Illinois, researchers at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign have modified the expression of three genes of the yeast Saccharomyces cerevisiae, which is used in the fermenation process to break down sugars to ethanol, in order to improve the way seaweed sugars can be converted to ethanol. Yong-Su Jin, one of the study’s authors […]
In Washington, the USDA has partially deregulated the planting of GMO sugarbeet for this spring, going against a previous federal district court order. The new policy is effective until the agency completes a full Environmental Impact Statement is completed and a final policy decision is made. More on the story. The USDA is also expected […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, dipped 0.05 percent to 88.32 as ethanol recovered. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) gained 0.39 percent to $36.09, while Biofuel Energy (BIOF) jumped back 8.54 percent to $0.89. Among other equities, Amyris (AMRS) fell 4.10 percent to $31.08. Overall, advances led declines […]
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Every year the Digest makes predictions for the upcoming year, and readers usually have to wait almost 12 months to score the effectiveness of our magic crystal ball. That hardly seems fair, so we thought we would make some new predictions, based on work by the stealthiest sleuthing by our Digesterati. We believe that there […]
