In Tunisia, African Development Bank Board of Directors approved a €30-million senior private sector loan and a €35 million loan from the public sector for the Markala Sugar project in Mali. The project consists of an agricultural component, CaneCo, and an industrial component, SoSuMar. CaneCo will be responsible for establishing 14,132 hectare, irrigated sugar cane […]
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In California, NASA has entered into a three year lease agreement with E Green Technologies to to bring the world’s largest airship to NASA Research Park at NASA Ames Research Center, Moffett Field. NASA will lease approximately 24,000 square feet of hangar space in historic Hangar 2 for EGT/21st Century Airships to develop and test […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, recovered 1.23 percent to 77.99 on broad advanced biofuels gains. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) jumped 2.07 percent to $31.07, while Amyris (AMRS) gained 2.89 percent to $24.20. Among other equities, Pacific Ethanol (PEIX) rocketed 8.70 percent to $0.75. Overall, advances led […]
“We renamed ourselves Aurora Algae,” said Aurora CEO Greg Bafalis, “but I would have changed it to Algae Inc, if I could have,” as he began to update us on the company’s progress. “What we determined last year was that it is really a high tech farming company.” It’s been a big year over at […]
In DC, Early bird rates – $200 off the regular conference rate – are available for early registrants attending the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference. Conference info and registration here. Set during Earth Week, and co-located for meetings of the Advanced Biofuels Association and CAAFI, its a perfect one-stop DC spring visit for legislative fly-ins and […]
In California, OriginOil has announced the successful completion of the first phase of its commercial pilot program, demonstrating their ability to feed CO2 and extract algae for fuel. Earlier this year, MBD became OriginOil’s first customer for the first of progressively larger systems to serve its three major power station projects in Australia. According to […]
In New Mexico, a 29-year-old man is facing a larceny charge for stealing a truck contained 11 55-gallon drums and two 250-gallon fuel tanks of biodiesel. The gas station near Santa Fe where the heist took place has been hit four times since early November in biodiesel-related thefts where a total of 1,500 gallons was […]
In California, Raymond James analyst Pavel Molchanov affirmed Amyris’ “outperform” rating and raised the share target to $27.00. Since October 8, Molchanov noted that “Amyris is now the only Gen2 biofuel story to sport a market cap above $1 billion, and in fact it has the second-largest market cap of any U.S.-traded biofuel company, behind […]
In Texas, CABI and Hart Energy Consulting have released Biofuels and Land Use Change: A Science and Policy Review, which reviews key research that has been conducted on the subject and analyses where the gaps in knowledge lie. Marginal, abandoned, degraded and unused lands are really the only possible sources of significant land for biofuel […]
