In Florida, renewable fuels and chemicals developer Amyris took the #1 spot in the 2010-11 “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy” rankings, published today in Biofuels Digest, the online daily bioenergy news service. Solazyme (#2), POET (#3), LS9 (#4), Gevo (#5), DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol (#6), Novozymes (#7), Coskata (#8), Codexis (#9) and Sapphire Energy (#10) […]
Microbial fermentation is ruling the roost this year, with four of the five top companies featuring synthetic biology working off algae, yeast or e.coli platforms. Leading the way were Amyris #1, and Solazyme #2, with LS9 at #4 and Gevo at #5 right behind them. POET #3, of course is using microbial fermentation, though mot […]
This year, the Hot 50 marked the entrance of a number of strategic investors and large caps into the Hot 50 – notably, Cargill at #36, Waste Management at #42, Chevron at #48, and Monsanto at #49. Fully four of the eight new companies in the Hot 50 were strategics. Overall, the list of strategics […]
Fuels, renewable oils and chemicals companies utilizing algae in their production process took a hit this year in the Hot 50 – last year, Solazyme, Sapphire Energy, PetroAlgae, Aurora Biofuels, OriginOil and Solix, Exxon and Synthetic Genomics made the rankings with an average placement of #23. This year, Aurora dropped out (primarily the result of […]
This year in the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy, we saw fewer international companies making the rankings, but those that did, were reaching higher positions. This year, there were 13 international companies in the overall Hot 50, down from 15 last year, but overall six reached the top 20. That’s up from just four in […]
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The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, gained 0.53 percent to a 28-month high of 77.80. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) fell 0.79 percent to $30.15, while Biofuel Energy (BIOF) jumped 17.99 percent to $1.64. Among other equities, Amyris (AMRS) soared 5.72 percent to $22.73. Overall, advances and declines […]
This week, we celebrate the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy, and generally these are hot processing technologies – but where will they produce? What are the feedstocks that can provide for an industry that is moving beyond technology demonstrations, towards scale. Many eyes, if not most, have turned towards Brazil, among the leading lands of […]
In California, cleantech analysis and consulting company Kachan & Co. says in its most recent set of predictions that biofuel investment could reach former highs. After several years of relatively inexpensive oil, Kachan predicts an upswing in biofuels investment in 2011, specifically, in drop-in biofuels. Cellulosic ethanol, which disappeared from headlines in 2010, may even […]
In Mississippi, while the merits of ethanol subsidies of one sort or another are being debated, BlueFire Renewables has announced the impact of Recovery Act funding in the form of 52 jobs now created as site preparation starts at its Fulton facility. With all permits in hand, Century Construction is preparing the site for actual […]
