Category: Top Stories

The Advanced Bioeconomy Dashboard for 7/21/14: equities, fuels, chemicals, and feedstock prices and data

The Advanced Bioeconomy Dashboard for 7/21/14: equities, fuels, chemicals, and feedstock prices and data

July 20, 2014 |

About The Digest Dashboard. Biofuels Digest’s Dashboard is a convenient “news you can use” 5-Minute summary of current markets including key commodity prices, relevant futures, bioenergy-related stocks, and historical equities data. New data this week! D4 (biodiesel) RINs, and EU biodiesel prices. Latest prices – key commodities. Most recent commodity closing prices, and price changes, […]

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Back in My Arms Again: The Supremes take on patent law in the era of synthetic biology

Back in My Arms Again: The Supremes take on patent law in the era of synthetic biology

July 18, 2014 |

Key ruling in Gevo, Butamax case links it to the upcoming Teva case, going before the Supreme Court this fall. In Colorado, Gevo filed a fascinating 8-K this week, relating that a United States District Court judge granted a motion to stay the patent litigation action brought by Butamax. The District Court’s decision postpones the […]

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Creating Sustainable Supply Chains for Cellulosic Biofuels

Creating Sustainable Supply Chains for Cellulosic Biofuels

July 17, 2014 |

Growers reporting increased yields, revenues with stover harvest. Natural Resources Conservation Service says “By making wise management decisions, removing residue can be done sustainably.” What are the opportunities and the must-knows, for growers and project developers? For those who were not able to register for our Digest webinar on “Creating Sustainable Supply Chains for Cellulosic […]

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Cellana lands milestone $3.5M DOE algae grant

Cellana lands milestone $3.5M DOE algae grant

July 17, 2014 |

  In Washington, the US Department of Energy announced today $3.5 million for an algae project aimed at accelerating the development of sustainable, affordable algal biofuels. This research project supports the Department’s goal of producing 2,500 gallons of algal biofuel feedstock per acre per year by 2018, an important milestone toward reducing the cost of […]

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BioAmber raises $33.6M in 2.8M share offering

BioAmber raises $33.6M in 2.8M share offering

July 16, 2014 |

From Minnesota, we hear that BioAmber priced a 2.8M share offering at $12.00 per share, and raised $33.6M. The company granted the underwriters in the offering a 30-day option to purchase up to an additional 420,000 shares of its common stock. Credit Suisse Securities and Canaccord Genuity are acting as the bookrunning managers for the […]

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Solar fuels: How close, how real?

Solar fuels: How close, how real?

July 16, 2014 |

Could a liquid fuel technology emerge that connects solar PV to the efficiency of electric engines — but, this time with long driving range and near-instant refueling instead of laborious recharging? And, could the liquid fuel be made from the very waste CO2 that bedevils our environment? Those ideas just took a big step forward — involving […]

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DOE awards $6M to advance towards $3 drop-in fuels by 2017

DOE awards $6M to advance towards $3 drop-in fuels by 2017

July 16, 2014 |

In Washington, the US Department of Energy announced $6 million for two projects to develop next generation biofuels that will help drive down the cost of producing gasoline, diesel, and jet fuels from biomass. The research and development projects, located in California and North Carolina, will focus on lowering production costs by maximizing the renewable […]

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10 MegaVitaVegeTrends for Mega-Efficient Biofuels 

10 MegaVitaVegeTrends for Mega-Efficient Biofuels 

July 15, 2014 |

Are your biotechnologies run down, listless? Do they poop out at pitch meetings? Are they unpopular? The answer to your problems may well be in this list — in the technologies that eliminate the waste that comes from biorefining itself? Making industrial biotech more efficient, transformative and sustainable. So, join the happy peppy people following our 10 […]

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Codexis signs major technology license with GlaxoSmithKline; could earn up to $25M in 2 yrs, more later

Codexis signs major technology license with GlaxoSmithKline; could earn up to $25M in 2 yrs, more later

July 15, 2014 |

From California, we hear that Codexis has announced the signing of a platform technology license agreement with GlaxoSmithKline (GSK). The company’s stock rose 43% on the news. The agreement in detail Here’s the skinny: Under the terms of the agreement, Codexis granted GSK a license to use Codexis’ proprietary CodeEvolver protein engineering platform technology in the […]

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Will the energy future be built in the US? 40% say “no”, in Digest survey.

Will the energy future be built in the US? 40% say “no”, in Digest survey.

July 14, 2014 |

In Florida, 40% of The Digest’s subscribers said that “the energy future” would not be built in the US, and instead pointed to Asia. In the online poll, 82% of subscribers said that Asia would be “very important” or “critical” in technology deployment at scale, compared to 61% for the US, 50% for Europe, 45% […]

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