Today, we’ll reach into the mailbag and voicemail box and shed some light on topics both important and bizarre, in our occasional “Biofuels Fact or Fiction” series. Q. Will the USDA really issue new loan guarantees to biofuels projects before year end? A: Likely – we hear positive rumblings on the jungle drums. There are […]
In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced that Solazyme, Amyris, Neste Oil, Ceres and Bunge led this years roster of Biofuels Digest Award winners. The awards, first established in 2008, recognize excellence in the research, development and commercialization of biofuels, renewable chemicals and bio-based products. The awards are voted by the Biofuels Digest editorial board, based on […]
The old joke in cellulosic ethanol is that it is five years away from commercialization…forever. So when a company in the know, like Novozymes, pushes back its cellulosic ethanol commercialization timelines to 2014 or 2015, it sounds like Deja Vu all over again. The supporters of cellulosic ethanol say that unlucky timing is the root […]
In Washington, President Barack Obama today signed H.R. 4853, the Tax Relief, Unemployment Insurance Reauthorization, and Job Creation Act of 2010. Last night, the US House of Representatives voted by a 277 to 148 margin to approve the Obama tax deal, which extends the ethanol tax credit through 2011, and retroactively extends the biodiesel tax incentive and […]
Mid-December has arrived and the 2011 biofuels predictions season kicked off with a set from Cascadia Capital. The Digest’s own 2011 set will be published Tuesday December 21st. From Cascadia Capital came the following: 1. Cap and Trade Discarded by Congress in National Energy Policy Cascadia believes that Congress will implement a national energy policy […]
In Digestville, with the Americans safely tucked away for the Thanksgiving Day holiday, we have an unusual opportunity we simply can’t resist, to look at all the non-US companies that are getting traction in the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy competition, and have more of an in-depth look at the hottest of the hot. We’ve […]
“Nobody gonna love me better I must stick with you forever. Nobody gonna take me higher I must stick with you.” Stickwitu, The Pussycat Dolls In a note yesterday to Digest readers, we made the following prediction: By 2020, all bioenergy businesses that are still businesses, will consider their partnerships to be their #1 asset. […]
1. Tom Vilsack, US Secretary of Agriculture 2. Jeff Broin, CEO, POET 3. Bob Dinneen, President, Renewable Fuels Association 4. Miguel Soldateli Rossetto, CEO, Petrobras Biocombustiviles 5. Jonathan Wolfson, CEO, Solazyme / Harrison Dillon, PhD, CTO 6. Steven Chu, US Secretary of Energy 7. Marcos Lutz, CEO, Cosan 8. Alan Shaw, PhD, CEO, Codexis 9. […]
Conventional wisdom holds that first-generation ethanol is dead as a door-nail in terms of attracting viable investment, but events in recent months suggest that the conventional wisdom is off by some margin. The Sacramento Business Journal reported yesterday that “shares of Pacific Ethanol Inc. climbed 3 percent in trading Thursday, after the ethanol-producer… raised $53.5 […]
In Florida, Biofuels Digest is projecting that global advanced biofuels capacity will reach 3.917 billion gallons by 2015, based on company announcements to date. Today, the Digest released version 1.6 of its free Advanced Biofuels Tracking Database, projecting 2015 capacity for the first time. The new database, which is the quarterly update tracking new projects […]
