Recent Biofuels

Revenue and product gross profit expected to exceed 2012 guidance Company to restate financial statements for 2011 and 2012 quarters due to change in lease accounting; no anticipated significant impact on net income (loss) Verenium Corporation (the “Company”) (Nasdaq: VRNM), a leading industrial biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of high-performance enzymes, today [...]

Company cited for risk management planning and chemical reporting violations EPA today announced Wyoming Ethanol, LLC, located in Torrington, Wyoming, will pay $49,000 in penalties to settle claims related to the facility’s Risk Management Program and chemical reporting requirements. The alleged violations are associated with the use of hazardous chemicals and the failure to appropriately [...]

UK biofuels industry produces joint position paper on ILUC proposals REA and EREC warn that shifting policy goalposts could prevent UK and EU realising economic benefits of 2020 renewable energy targets Energy Secretary Ed Davey has told the European Energy Council that a ‘one size fits all’ approach to the issue of indirect land use [...]

Capstone Turbine Corporation (www.capstoneturbine.com) (Nasdaq:CPST), the world’s leading clean technology manufacturer of microturbine energy systems, has added the U.S. coal bed methane market to its portfolio of oil and gas applications with the installation of the country’s first methane-fueled C200 at a CONSOL Energy gas processing plant in Pennsylvania. CONSOL Energy Inc. (NYSE:CNX), a leading [...]

With nine placements already in train, REA opens up round 2 The Renewable Energy Association is calling for applications to the second round of its EU-funded biogas work experience scheme: ‘Advanced Biogas Learning in Europe’ (ABLE). The scheme, funded by the EU Leonardo programme and run in partnership with the German Biogas and Bioenergy Society [...]

SucreSource, a wholly owned subsidiary of BlueFire Renewables, Inc. (OTC BB: BFRE.OB), has signed agreements with GS Caltex, a Korean petroleum company, to build a cellulose to sugar plant in Korea. “This agreement validates SucreSource’s business model of selling its cellulosic sugars and, as in this case, sugar producing process to synergistic back end proprietary [...]

Chromatin, Inc., a leading provider of innovative crop breeding technology, sorghum seed products and feedstocks, and Aemetis, Inc. (OTCPK: AMTX), an advanced fuels and renewable chemicals company announced today that they have entered into a multi-year agreement to source locally-grown grain sorghum. Under the agreement, Chromatin will engage local growers to plant its hybrid grain [...]

Scientists made a major step forward recently towards transforming biomass-derived molecules into fuels. Fuels synthesis insight can reduce costs and greenhouse gases Scientists made a major step forward recently towards transforming biomass-derived molecules into fuels. The team led by Los Alamos National Laboratory researchers elucidated the chemical mechanism of the critical steps, which can be [...]

The Energy Department on January 28 announced about $6 million for projects that will develop and demonstrate supply-chain technologies to affordably deliver commercial-scale lignocellulosic biomass feedstocks such as woody plant tissue to biorefineries across the country. This funding will help accelerate the development of integrated, cost-effective supply-chain systems that reduce time and costs to produce [...]

Verenium Corporation (Nasdaq: VRNM), a leading industrial biotechnology company focused on the development and commercialization of high-performance enzymes, today announced that the Company is a sponsor of the Renewable Fuels Association’s (RFA) 18th Annual National Ethanol Conference. The conference is taking place February 5 — 7, 2013 at the Wynn Las Vegas in Las Vegas, [...]