World’s Biofuels Markets 2010 has now passed into history, amidst memories of lessons learned, contacts made, and friendships renewed. The standing-room only crowds in many of the sessions showed that, after a trying 2009, the biofuels industry is very much on the move in 2010. Several trends were much in evidence during the three days of the conference.
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WBM 2010
Thursday, March 25th, 201067 advanced biofuels projects aim for 2.32 billion gallons in capacity by 2014: Biofuels Digest Advanced Biofuels database
Thursday, March 25th, 2010Biofuels Digest released its updated, version 1.3 of the Advanced Biofuels Tracking Database, now featuring 67 announced projects with 2.322 billion gallons in announced capacity by 2014, and 107 million gallons of installed advanced biofuels capacity by the end of 2010.
The Shell Game: What’s up with Biofuels’ “Quiet Company?”
Thursday, March 25th, 2010In the old and famous “shell game”, a small, round ball, known as a “pea” is located under one of three shells, and shuffled around by an operator. The player can double his bet by guessing under which shell the pea is located. Of course, the skilled operator is using sleight-of-hand to move the pea so that no player can ever successfully guess where the pea is located.
Rumors aplenty at “standing-room only” WBM
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010Sapphire, DARPA, Joule, Akuo, SunFuel in the news as World Biofuels Markets convenes.
In the Netherlands, World Biofuels Markets, which officially opened yesterday with 10 keynote speakers including former Norwegian PM Dr. Gro Harlem Brundtland, BP Biofuels CEO Philip New, former Netherlands PM Ruud Lubbers and current Netherlands Environment Minister Bernard ter Haar, got off to a roaring start Monday with delegates crowding standing room-only workshops on algal fuels, energy crops, sustainability, and congresses on biopower and bio-based products. Overall attendance figures of up to 1500 have been reported for WBM, a sharp increase over 2009’s 900 attendees.
Interview – StrategicFit
Tuesday, March 16th, 2010In the UK, StrategicFit will debut the GreenTrackers Algae Biofuels Company Database, which gathers information on 50+ algae bio-fuels companies around the world, from New Zealand and Hawaii to China, California and Europe. The database provides quantitative and qualitative information and is updated on a monthly basis, and uses a motion chart visualization tool to enable easy comparison of companies on multiple dimensions simultaneously. The database is partially based on data from the Biofuels Digest “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy” Selectors Data Book as well as the Digest archive. The Digest caught up with the database’s designers, Strategic Fit in an email interview this week.
Spring Algae Bloom: an inside look at the DOE’s new algal fuels consortium, the NAABB.
Thursday, March 11th, 2010It was a cold Wednesday afternoon in January when the news came through that a consortium called the National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts had received a $44 million grant from the Department of Energy. Another group called the National Advanced Biofuels Consortium had won the other. In all, DOE said it would invest $80 million in a consortia approach to solving technical challenges such as outlined in the Algal Biomass Roadmap process, commenced in late 2008.
DOE awards $78 million for National Alliance for Advanced Biofuels and Bioproducts, and National Advanced Biofuels Consortium
Tuesday, January 19th, 2010US Secretary of Energy Steven Chu today announced the investment of nearly $80 million under the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act for advanced biofuels research and fueling infrastructure that will help support the development of a clean sustainable transportation sector. The selections announced today – two biofuels consortia for up to $78 million to research algae-based- are part of the Department’s continued effort to spur the creation of the domestic bio-industry while creating jobs. (more…)
