Archive for the ‘Cellulosic Ethanol’ Category
Friday, March 5th, 2010
In the EU, the Renewable Energy Policy Network REN21, a global policy network that provides a forum for international leadership on renewable energy, has launched its Renewables Interactive Map. The Map contains a wealth of information on renewable energy, including support policies, expansion targets, current shares, installed capacity, current production, future scenarios, and policy pledges.
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
OriginOil’s new system
It was just a few months ago that expectations ran so high during the “Summer of Algae” that it seemed as if, any day, the national energy solution would be announced by an enterprising company, or two or three or 103, who had conquered the problems of industrializing growth rates and oil extraction like an assault team at Iwo Jima. Only the “we, band of brothers” would hold PhDs instead M-1 carbines. (more…)
Posted in Algae, Biofuel Policy & Regulation, Cellulosic Ethanol, Ethanol, Finance & Investment, Future feedstocks, Helioculture, Industry news, Next Generation Fuels, cyanobacteria | Comments Off
Monday, February 22nd, 2010
In Florida, algal ethanol and renewable drop-in fuels advanced suddenly in the Sunshine State with the approval of a $10 million Lee County incentive for Algenol that will bring the company’s research laboratory, new corporate headquarters and production facility to South Florida.
On the other side of the state, LS9 announced that they have selected an existing site in Okeechobee for a 100,000 gallon pilot plant opening this year, that could be expanded to 10 Mgy as soon as 2012. (more…)
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
In Denmark, Novozymes announced that productivity increases with its new Cellic CTec2 enzymes have brought enzyme costs down to 50 cents per gallon, and will enable the biofuel industry to produce cellulosic ethanol at a price below USD 2.00 per gallon for the initial commercial-scale plants that are scheduled to be in operation in 2011. This cost is on par with gasoline and conventional ethanol at the current US market prices. (more…)
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Monday, February 22nd, 2010
In Brazil, Royal Dutch Shell announced an MOU with Cosan (CZZ) to make the largest investment in the history of biofuels, with an agreement to establish a 50-50 Brazilian ethanol joint venture with Cosan which will own 4,500 retail stations, sugar, ethanol, fuel distribution and power generation, and the Shell aviation fuel distribution business. (more…)
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
Policymakers are known to equate biofuels with first-generation ethanol, biodiesel, and cellulosic ethanol. More recently, they have embraced exotic technologies such as the algae platform for advanced biofuels. As one industry wag put it, “You tell them about first-generation, second-generation and third-generation biofuels, and then they tell you that the one that really want to get behind is fourth-generation.” (more…)
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
The first week of December 2009 was remarkable: the EPA’s signal that it expects to approve E15 blends in ethanol in mid-2010 if engine tests continue as they have to date; the release of the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy rankings, and the preliminaries of the Copenhagen climate change conference.
What next? Two cautionary notes amongst the celebration. One regarding oil, the other regarding water. (more…)
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
In Florida, Biofuels Digest released a downloadable, consolidated table of cellulosic ethanol and advanced biofuels production, including current production as of December 2009, and planned introductions of new capacity through 2012.
The Digest found in its review of operating pilot and demonstration plants that 24 companies have nameplate production capacity of 6.88 million gallons of advanced biofuels as of December 2009. (more…)
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
Q: Who Am I?
I’m up, I’m down, I’m all around, I’m in the sky, I’ve hit the ground, I make you smile, I make you frown, I lift you up, I make you drown.
A: I am biofuels public policy in the United States.
Here’s the latest from Washington on some critical end-of-year issues, including the biodiesel tax credit which hangs in the balance. (more…)
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Friday, December 18th, 2009
“In my mind and in my car/We can’t rewind we’ve gone too far” – The Buggles, Video Killed the Radio Star
In this years’s Hottest 50 Companies in Bioenergy, there’s one unmistakable trend: synthetic biology companies developing drop-in, renewable fuels at popular prices. “Magic bugs” from Amyris, LS9, Gevo, Qteros, Joule Biotechnologies, Synthetic Genomics and Virent, among others, are the backbone of the Synth Pop movement in bioenergy. (more…)
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