Myriant closes first bio-based chemicals loan under USDA’s Business and Industry Loan Guarantee Program. Industry’s first private bond placement under innovative structure developed to finance advanced industrial scale-up; Q1 2013 commercial start-up in sight In Massachusetts, Myriant announced it closed a $25 million private bond placement for the construction of its flagship commercial bio-succinic acid […]
In Washington, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency gave the final approval to move forward with the sale of E15 ethanol blends. The announcement knocks down the lone, significant regulatory hurdle standing in the way of getting E15 into the marketplace for passenger vehicles 2001 and newer. With guidance on that issue from the EPA, fuel […]
The voting has concluded, and the readers and selectors have spoken. What makes a great partner? According to our readers – acceleration and validation. Partners that can add credibility (via their brands) to your efforts, and accelerate your path to commercialization. Here are, in order of rank and category by category, the Hottest Partners in […]
The voting has concluded, and the readers and selectors have spoken. What makes a great partner? According to our readers – acceleration and validation. Partners that can add credibility (via their brands) to your efforts, and accelerate your path to commercialization. Here are, in order of rank, the 40 Hottest Partners in Bioenergy and Bio-Based […]
Section 9011 of the Farm Bill – the Biomass Crop Assistance Program – USDA deploys $9.6M in new investments in bioenergy crops as questions revolve around the program’s future and effectiveness. Is BCAP important? Will it survive? How will it change? In Washington, Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced $9.6 million for the creation of two […]
One of biofuels’ hottest companies transitions from research phase to operating phase with opening of its demo plant in Okeechobee – what’s next, and where? In the glades north of Lake Okeechobee, in rural Florida, a 135,000 liter fermenter column stands out against the landscape like Salisbury Cathedral rising over the plains of Thomas Hardy’s […]
In Delaware, Butamax Advanced Biofuels notes the U.S. Federal District Court in the District of Delaware order limiting Gevo’s commercial activities, effective immediately. The order specifies: It is ordered that, until further order of the court, defendant Gevo, Inc., … and those persons in active concert or participation with them who receive notice of the […]
10,000 ways to replace a barrel of imported oil? BioBased Digest launches today, to help sort out the news and products in this fast-growing sector. Also introducing BioBase, which will launch in conjunction with Advanced Biofuels Markets this October in San Francisco. When the USDA announced recently that there are 3,700 bio-based products now approved […]
Thermocatalytic biofuels projects are Going South – here’s who and why In US bioenergy as a whole, most of the attention has deservedly gone to the Midwestern states – by and large, that’s where the corn and soybean production calls home. Efforts to diversify the production of first generation biodiesel have been able to stretch, […]
What are the most-told myths for biofuels, and what does science actually tell us? The Digest separates the fact from the fiction. The EU and the United States are preparing for what appears to be an extended debate on the merits and structure of biofuels mandates. Especially in the US, where the Renewable Fuel Standard […]
