Solazyme and Dow announced they have entered into a contingent offtake agreement in which Dow has agreed to purchase from Solazyme all of its requirements of nonvegetable microbe-based oils for use in dielectric fluid applications through 2015.
Executives from BP Biofuels, Novozymes, and DuPont Industrial Biosciences held a conference call May 1 to reiterate the importance of the renewable fuel standard (RFS) to the developing cellulosic biofuel industry.
Enerkem filed notice to withdraw its registration statement, effectively abandoning plans to pursue an IPO. A few days later, Iogen agreed to a new plan with its owners that will result 150 jobs lost and terminate plans for a biorefinery in Manitoba.
Ludgate Environmental Fund Ltd. has invested more than $5 million in U.K. biomass firm Ignis Biomass Ltd., helping to fund the construction of a biomass plant in Wick, Scotland.
NTE Energy has been awarded a patent for its proprietary biomass technology that it says will allow the simultaneous operation of a biomass energy cycle and a traditional power plant.
Purchase of Denison, Iowa, ethanol plant finalized
By The Andersons Inc.
May 01, 2012
The Andersons Inc. announced it has completed the purchase of an ethanol facility in Denison, Iowa, now known as The Andersons Denison Ethanol LLC.
Dyadic expands license agreement with Abengoa
By Dyadic International Inc.
May 01, 2012
Dyadic International Inc. announced that Abengoa Bioenergy New Technologies Inc. has agreed to pay Dyadic $5.5 million for an expansion of its rights under the nonexclusive license agreement the parties entered into in February 2009.
Through the Nova Scotia CleanTech Open, SABRTEch Inc. has been awarded $100,000 in cash, a $200,000 negotiable seed investment, mentoring services and in-kind business building services through the program. The company will add three staff members.
Mass. Deals a Blow to Biomass
May 01, 2012
Nine months past its deadline, the Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources finally released its proposed final regulations last week for woody biomass to qualify under the state's renewable portfolio standard (RPS).
Butamax, a leading global biobutanol technology development company, announced that two additional ethanol producers have joined its Early Adopters Group and have signed letters of intent to this effect. The EAG was founded in December last year.
An April 30 Shell and Iogen announcement revealed that 150 employees were laid off at Iogen's headquarters in Ottawa, Ontario, and a Shell-led proposed project to build a 10 MMgy cellulosic ethanol plant in Manitoba has been suspended.
New York State's largest on-farm biogas power project drew state and local officials May 1 for its official grand opening. The facility produces 1.4 MW of power, enough for nearly 1,000 homes.
The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit granted motions to allow several biofuel organizations to intervene and address issues that'll be raised during the lawsuit filed against the U.S. EPA by the API regarding 2012 RFS2 volume requirements.
The U.S. DOE recently announced selections for three consortia that will make up the $125 million U.S.-India Joint Clean Energy Research and Development Center. The consortia will bring together U.S., Indian experts from labs, academia and industry.
Cole Gustafson was killed April 28 in a farm accident on his family's farm in Minnesota. He was an NDSU professor who was working with Green Vision Group on a project to build multiple 20 MMgy dedicated energy beet-to-ethanol plants in North Dakota.
BPA comments on Mass. regulations
May 01, 2012
Bob Cleaves, president and CEO of the Biomass Power Association, said the BPA is extremely disappointed with the recently released Massachusetts regulations, which dictate parameters for the qualification of biomass under the state's RPS.
Less a month after inking a deal with Fagen Inc. to serve as the EPC firm for butanol production facilities, two more ethanol plants have joined butanol technology developer Butamax Advanced Biofuels LLC's Early Adopters Group.
Off the coast of Singapore, the Jurong Island woody biomass steam production plant can generate roughly 22 tons of process steam per hour.
DOE funds biomass cookstove research
April 30, 2012
The U.S. DOE has announced up to $2.5 million in funding available this year for applied research to advance clean biomass cookstove technologies for use in developing countries.
Despite interest from "key potential investors," Enerkem Inc. won't proceed with an IPO, but the company, with the support of its current investors and partners, is still planning to move forward with several MSW-to-biofuels commercial projects.
Novozymes announced two international projects, a partnership with Chinese Shengquan Group to produce cellulosic ethanol for solvents and biochemicals and its participation in a consortium developing a cellulosic ethanol plant in Maabjerg, Denmark.
Deadlines are looming for the Fuel Ethanol Workshop. The first is for award nominations, due today, and we're also looking for scholarship applications by May 7. Both can be done online by following the links at www.fuelethanolworkshop.com.
A new model developed by University of Illinois researchers can help increase biomass supply chain efficiencies
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White House gathering reaffirms Obama's support for advanced biofuels
The Massachusetts Department of Energy Resources has released its months-overdue proposed final regulations for the qualification of woody biomass under the state's renewable portfolio standard (RPS).
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