Biodiesel Algae Research in Chesapeake Bay Watershed

Norway’s StatoilHydro (NYSE: STO), the largest offshore energy company in the world, is fighting the bad public relations besieging its sector peer BP (NYSE: BP) with $3 million in funding for algae-based biofuel research in the U.S. The College of William and Mary is the oldest American institution of higher learning besides Harvard, and its [...]

Amyris IPO: Making Money Off Third-party Ethanol

While biofuel maker Amyris unveiled that it had scored some major partnerships and investment earlier this week, the good news doesn’t distract from the fact that Amyris is generating the majority of its revenues from selling third-party ethanol.

On the Road to IPO, Amyris Links with Total, Raises $139M

Amyris disclosed in a filing this week that it has hooked up with French oil giant Total, which bought a 17 percent stake in the biofuel developer and could help deliver a lot more confidence with investors for its upcoming IPO.

Amyris IPO Update: DOE Funds Roll In, Losses Top $136M

Amyris Biotechnologies has taken one more step toward the long sought goal of commercial scale next-gen biofuel production. The IPO hopeful’s latest filing with regulators shows it has collected its first revenue from a multimillion dollar federal grant awarded late last year.

KiOR: Crunching Millions of Years of Carbonization Into Seconds

While Khosla-backed biofuel startup KiOR has largely been in stealth, KiOR’s President described his company’s technology this week as being able to crunch the millions of years that it takes to carbonize biomass (turn it into fossil fuels) into seconds at the Khosla Venture’s LP meeting.

Aviation Biofuels Industry Materializing in Brazil

At a meeting on May 6 in São Paulo, Brazil, industry stakeholders formed ABRABA to spearhead development of aviation biofuels. The effort signals a growing concern for the growth of the industry within a carbon and oil constrained future.

Earlier this month, aviation companies, biofuel producers, and the sugar cane, algae, [...]

Obama Rolls Out New Fuel Standards for Trucks

President Obama chose the White House Rose Garden as the spot to sign an executive order establishing the first-ever vehicle emissions standards for big rigs and other heavy trucks beginning in the 2014 model year. The emissions directive also calls on the automotive industry to promote development of plug-in hybrids electric cars and other vehicles [...]

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