In Iowa, green jobs have grown more than 26% since between 2008 and 2007—with many of those jobs coming from the state’s biofuels industry—but potential for some green jobs, especially in biofuels, is dependent on technologies and processes that haven’t proved economical. If Poet is successful in converting 30 corn ethanol plants to its cellulosic […]
In Massachusetts, Joule Unlimited added Mark Solakian as Senior Vice President and General Counsel, and David St. Angelo has joined as Vice President of Engineering. Solakian comes from Helicos BioSciences, while St. Angelo was previously at Skyonic. More on the story.
In Sweden, the European Union approved the SEK 500 million (€55 million, $75 million) R&D grant towards the industrial scale demonstration biofuels plant based on Chemrec’s gasification technology at the Domsjö Fabriker biorefinery in Örnsköldsvik, Sweden. The plant will produce bioDME using forest harvest residues as energy feedstock. The plant will be based on the Chemrec […]
jserface: Sec. Mabus: Rand report wrong. Biofuels scalable, working, providing energy independence, and creating new American industry Biofuels: jatropha still linked to land grabbing and displacement of farmers – The Ecologist BIOblogger: RE: Fed. policy & the SOTU address: Think #biofuels will have biopartisan support next 2 years? What about carbon credits? triplepundit Climate Capitalism […]
In Tanzania, the energy minister has released a 18-page document outlining guidelines for sustainable biofuels development amidst criticism of biofuels supposedly competing with the food supply. He urged small-scale farmers and other entrepreneurs to form groups or primary cooperative societies that could enter into contractual agreements with investors in the bio-fuel business. More on the […]
In Washington, US Energy Secretary Steven Chu and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack went on the communications offensive in the wake of President Obama’s State of the Union Speech. Chu conducted a town hall meeting in which he discussed the opportunity to end taxpayer subsidies for fossil fuels, create three new Energy Innovation Hubs, put one […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, recovered 0.56 percent to 86.59, despite enzyme weakness. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) gained 0.24 percent to $33.42, while Novozymes (NZMB) fell 0.88 percent to $140.00. Among other equities, PetroAlgae (PALG.OB) jumped 13.17 percent to $11.60. Overall, advances led declines 9 to […]
In Georgia, a wholly owned subsidy of First United Ethanol LLC in Camilla received noticed from the New York office of WestLB AG that it is out of compliance with terms of a $100 million construction loan and a $15 million working capital loan. The facility in Camilla is the state’s largest ethanol plant. More […]
In Indonesia, Arizona’s Diversified Energy Corporation has been selected by PT Jatropha Feedstock Initiative (JFI) of Indonesia to provide technology and production equipment for a large scale jatropha plantation and advanced biofuels production business being developed in eastern Indonesia. Diversified Energy will provide advanced bio-refinery technologies and processing equipment that will convert the crude jatropha […]
In Washington, the RAND Corporation, the national defense research institute, released a study on the use of alternative fuels in military applications. RAND has highlighted that “If the U.S. military increases its use of alternative fuels, there will be no direct benefit to the nation’s armed forces,” and said that “To realize the national benefits […]
