In Washington state, microbiologist Hal Collins and agronomist Rick Boydston, of the ARS Vegetable and Forage Crops Research Laboratory in Prosser, report that it could take anywhere from 50 to 70 acres for a farmer with 1,000 acres and an onsite crusher and biodiesel facility to grow enough canola to produce the fuel needed to […]
In Wisconsin, the governor has scrapped a $100 million plan to replace two of the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s coal-fired boilers with biomass after citing budget difficulties and criticism from at least one environmental organization. The boilers will instead be replaced with natural gas. The move towards biomass was originally in response to a 2008 lawsuit […]
In California, the California’s Air Resources Board (ARB) has appointed Christopher Frantz, a Principal at Endicott Biofuels, LLC (EBF), to its Low Carbon Fuel Standard (LCFS) advisory panel. Tony Newton has joined the Verenium team as an ethanol plants field technician. Prior to joining Verenium, Newton spent over 10 years in engineering roles and as plant/area manager of various […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, dipped 0.05 percent to 88.17 as earnings season dominated pricing. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) gained 1.81 percent to $36.09, while Codexis (CDXS) soared 16.94 percent to $10.70 on strong Q4 earnings. Among other equities, Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) dropped 3.57 percent to […]
In California, Fulcrum Bioenergy announced that it has closed a $75 million Series C financing. A portion of the financing will be used to fund the equity capital for the company’s Sierra BioFuels Plant, a commercial-scale production facility designed to convert household garbage to ethanol, renewable electricity and other high value chemical products. Fulcrum reports […]
In California, Codexis yesterday announced a stunning 29% increase in revenue, to $107.1 million, driven by a 77% increase in sales of pharmaceutical products, from $18.6 million in 2009 to $32.8 million in 2010, and increases in collaborative R&D and government grants. With operating expenses growing by only 2 percent, the company swung from a […]
In Texas, KiOR announced that it has received a term sheet for a loan guarantee supporting over $1 billion biofuels project from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Loan Guarantee Program. The project would convert wood biomass into drop in biofuels such as gasoline and diesel fuel. KiOR’s project under the DOE loan guarantee program will […]
In Peru, Maple Energy has closed a $40 million senior debt facility that will help it reach its goals of ethanol production during the second half of 2011. More on the story.
In the Philippines, the National Biofuels Board regulators are going ahead with the E-10, or 10% ethanol blend mandate, but are allowing ethanol producers and oil companies 6 months. The Philippine DOE is expected to release a circular, stating that the E-10 blend will be mandatory effective July 16th, and that for the following four […]
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