Biofuels Industry Survey Results: Key findings ahead of the World Biofuels Markets Congress & Exhibition In a recent survey conducted with bioenergy leading industry experts ahead of the 8th annual World Biofuels Markets Congress & Exhibition, 51% of those who responded rated their government’s policy as supportive, while 15% rated them as very supportive. Alongside […]
The first patent issued out of ARPA-E’s electrofuels program suggests that this technology class is heading for the short-list of “next big thing” in energy conversations. Today, we look at Ginkgo Bioworks and its electrofuel technology. DLA Piper’s Global Energy Summit kicked off in Southern California yesterday, with as good a collection of energy worthies […]
EIA forecasts paints gloomy fuel price projection: $8.68 gasoline, $268 crude oil by 2040. Despite more pain at the pump, EIA cuts back sharply on projections for flex-fuel and all-electric vehicles. Where are the alternatives? When six press releases arrive from the biofuels community in the space of two hours, offering perspective and caution on […]
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, 3 top milestones for 2010-12 and projected for 2012-14, description of the business model; plus project info (location, feedstocks, product set, processing technology, capacity, […]
By Mackinnon Lawrence There are few topics that get the clean technology sector excited less than trash. Meanwhile, the news is littered with stories discussing municipal areas from Zimbabwe to Los Angeles and Mumbai to Moscow struggling to implement long-term strategies for dealing with municipal solid waste (MSW). Even as intellectual capital is thrown at […]
“Then one day he was dumpin’ off some food, and out of it all came a bubblin’ crude. Fuel that is…landfill gold, Texas tea…” Is it landfill or jet fuel? New technologies blur our ideas about waste. One of the least-viewed articles in yesterday’s Digest offered proof positive on how great a job the advanced biofuels […]
In China, LanzaTech and Baosteel reported their jointly-owned 100,000 gallon per year (300 tons) demonstration plant, located at a Baosteel steel mills outside Shanghai, China has met and exceeded milestones – the companies are reporting that the plant achieved higher productivity than design. Cleared for full commercial scale in 2013 The National Development and Reform […]
First commercial project in Nevada scheduled for completion in 2015; dramatic drop in operating expense. In California, Fulcrum BioEnergy announced that it has successfully secured commitments and is proceeding toward closing $175 million in financing to fund construction of its first municipal solid waste to low-carbon fuels plant, the Sierra BioFuels Plant and to fund […]
Who are the top industry people? The annual ballot opens. What’s your view? In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced the opening of balloting for the 2012-13 Top 100 People in Bioenergy, after a week of nominations in which more than 250 company executives, trade association leaders, policymakers and researchers around the world were nominated by Digest […]
30 million gallon plant in Nevada, Iowa will expand central Iowa’s energy exports, add to local grower economy. In Iowa, DuPont broke ground today on its $200 million, 30 million gallon cellulosic biofuels facility in Nevada, Iowa. Expected to be completed in mid-2014, the new facility produce cellulosic ethanol from corn stover. Iowa Governor Terry […]
