In today’s Digest, we’ve looked at: • New investors flock to Proterro as all the incumbents re-up • Why Affordable Renewable Sugars are a Monster Prize• Making sugars, not extracting them: Proterro’s Technology So, when will we know if Proterro is a company and not a science project? The timing is in months, not years, in terms of […]
Biofuels Digest has released the next wave of its 5-Minute Guides – a “news you can use” digest on the leading companies in biofuels. Each 5-Minute Guide provides a company description, top development and commercialization, milestones for from 2010 through today, description of the business model; plus project info (location, feedstocks, product set, processing technology, […]
Next-gen renewable oils producer achieves first linear scale-up to 500,000 liter fermenters — clears path for large commercial production volumes. In biofuels, the “ethanol blend wall” gets a tremendous amount of attention. This is the restriction on ethanol blending in gasoline to (today) 10 percent. It limits overall US ethanol distribution, and vexes ethanol producers […]
Policy, finance, technology, feedstocks, markets, prices, opposition. Here’s what’s on your mind, as the critical 2013 deployment year for biofuels looms. Great topic suggestions from Digest readers have been pouring into my inbox all week — for the private, pre-ABLC briefing that we are prepping for DC this April. (By the way, thank you to the many […]
In today’s Digest, Will Rogers updates us on the operational and strategic rationale behind the U.S. military’s energy efforts. By: Will Rogers, Consumer Energy Report The recent debate over the role of the military in investing in renewable energy technologies, energy efficiency and conservation programs and alternative biofuels has included many voices that sometimes conflate […]
It’s been years of struggle to get cellulosic feedstock supply chains downfield. Now, companies like Woodland Biofuels, Sweetwater Energy, Ceres, Delta BioRenewables and Commonwealth Agro-Energy are moving the chains. For grownups of a certain age, memories of December past take us back to childhoods before Madden Football and XBox, when Electric Football sets were found […]
More CEOs, content, investors, networking time, and exhibitors at advanced biofuels’ biggest gathering and deal-making forum. And more affordable than ever! 5 conferences interweaving on Advanced Biofuels, Renewable Chemicals, Aviation & Military Markets, Investment & Finance, and The New Upstream. In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced that ABLC 2013 – the annual Leadership Week for advanced […]
By Brent Erickson, Executive Vice President, Industrial and Environmental Section, Biotechnology Industry Organization The biofuel industry breathed a big sigh of relief last month when the EPA declined several governors’ petitions to waive the Renewable Fuel Standard. Then, after a herculean group effort, the industry and other interests stood and cheered as the Senate voted last […]
In California, Propel Fuels has closed on the initial phase of its Series D round of funding with $11 million in equity capital from existing investors Nth Power, Craton Equity Partners, and @Ventures as well as a new investor, Gentry Venture Partners. In addition, the company has secured $10 million in debt financing. With the […]
Could biomass briquette mills and improved cook stoves undermine the Taliban — for one percent of what the US now spends? From time to time, we report on correspondence exchanged with our veterans and serving men and women in the field, on the subject of the strategic and tactical opportunities in biofuels and bioenergy. This […]
