In Georgia, New Energy Farms and Spriggers Choice have jointly developed equipment for growers to lift and plant Miscanthus rhizomes. Miscanthus crops are established by planting rhizomes and New Energy Farms is providing the expertise and equipment for growers to plant their own multiplication crops, lift the rhizomes after one or two seasons, and then […]
In Vietnam, Japan’s Itochu will invest an undisclosed amount in PetroVietnam’s ethanol production program. The cassava-based ethanol facility will produce 100,000 kiloliters of ethanol annually beginning in the spring of 2012. PetroVietnam’s oil division will be in charge of marketing the ethanol for local consumption under the country’s E5 blending mandate. More on the story.
In Brazil, Glencore has paid $80 million for a 70% stake in the Brazilian ethanol plant Rio Vermelho, its first ever investment in the cane sector. The facility produces only ethanol and can crush up to 1.3 million metric tons of sugarcane per year. The company is expected to expand the mill’s production capacity as […]
In Thailand, the country’s public sector is asking the government to establish clear policies that will ensure there is no competition between food and fuel. As producers move away from molasses as a biofuel feedstock and into other crops like cassava, they want to ensure there will be no conflicts for feedstock in the future. […]
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In Washington, NASA announced that they have discovered a new microbe in California’s Mono Lake, that can use arsenic as a fundamental building block in its DNA. While it has been known that microbes can survive in high arsenic environments, this is the first known case of a microbe that uses arsenic to replace phosphorus […]
In Washington, Senate Finance chairman Max Baucus of Montana introduced a compromise on the ethanol tax credit. Under the proposed compromise, the ethanol tax credit would be cut to 36 cents and renewed for one year; a 54 cent tariff on Brazilian ethanol would also be renewed. However, the Senate rejected the proposal in a […]
The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, jumped 1.19 percent to a one-month high of 77.39 as oil stocks and large caps advanced. For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) gained 0.90 percent to $30.39, while Biofuel Energy (BIOF) fell 6.08 percent to $1.39. Among other equities, Amyris (AMRS) edged up […]
Every year in the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy, we see a lot of new entrants who have seized the attention of subscribers and selectors with their jazzy technologies, name investors, and starling commercial potential. Last year, for example, companies like Joule, Synthetic Genomics and Gevo rocketed up the lost like bulleted hits on the […]
In Ohio, Arisdyne Systems has pioneered technology that can increase ethanol production by 10 percent, or reduce the use of catalyst by 25 percent in biodiesel production. Taken across the US ethanol fleet (outside of POET, which uses its own proprietary system to achieve, potentially, a 5 to 10 percent improvement in productivity per gallon), […]
