Today's Date:
Tuesday, May 13, 2008
Biofuels
April 14, 2008
The Senate passes a bill extending renewable-energy tax credits, after previously failing twice to extend the credits. Meanwhile, New York City's congestion plan dies, Mayor Bloomberg proposes 2-megawatt solar project and China aims to double its renewable-energy use.
April 11, 2008
The cellulosic-ethanol startup is expected to announce the location of the 40,000-gallon-per-year plant, as well as its partners, later this month. It already is producing small amounts of ethanol at its offices in Warrenville, Ill.
April 10, 2008
The Clean Tech Open begins as UC Berkeley's greentech contest closes and the California Clean Energy Fund announces an angel fund. Will these efforts to seed innovation be enough?
April 02, 2008
Electrorides prepares to debut its electric truck, and will offer an option to trick it out with an engine that uses vegetable oil or biodiesel.
March 28, 2008
The ethanol producer sells $40 million worth of stock to Lyles United in a move that is expected to ease company woes.
March 26, 2008
With $40 million in new funding and ready-made commercial partners, Elevance hopes to make oil-derived chemicals and products, including candles and cosmetics, from crops such as soy, canola and corn instead.
March 25, 2008
The Alternative Energy Technology Center says it can produce ethanol for less than $1 per gallon, matching a similar claim by Coskata in January. Other such announcements are on the way, industry insiders say, but could all the competition derail these plans?
March 24, 2008
The algae startup says construction is well underway on the first phase of its first commercial plant. But an analyst says it's too soon to tell whether it will be economically worthwhile to make biofuels from slime.
March 20, 2008
After at least two similar projections, another report forecasts that solar supply will exceed demand as early as next year.
March 19, 2008
Company releases preliminary earnings, indicating a $14.7 million loss three times as large as analysts expected; one analyst says expected gross profit is a sign that operations are still 'solid.'
March 19, 2008
The Nobel laureate and former vice president advocates a tax on carbon dioxide emissions as the U.S. Senate continues to debate a carbon cap-and-trade system.
March 18, 2008
Houston-based ethanol company plans to turn unprofitable corn-based ethanol plants into cellulosic-ethanol plants. But so far, cellulosic ethanol is still more expensive. And could cellulose prices rise as more companies start thinking the same way?
March 17, 2008
Range Fuels rakes in $100 million for cellulosic ethanol, Coskata gets $19.5 million for the same and Suntech acquires $100 million in shares of Nitol Solar.
March 15, 2008
After the cellulosic-ethanol company bags funding, industry watchers wonder if such a deal implies the company, and others like it, are overvalued.
March 12, 2008
Biodiesel companies Cargill and Alabama Biodiesel face pollution allegations after a solar-silicon company is accused of dumping toxic waste. Will the rest of the greentech industry suffer a credibility problem?
March 12, 2008
Despite recent studies that ethanol will stir up more environmental havoc than traditional oil-based fuel, the money is rolling in for Coskata, which claims to have revolutionary next-generation biofuel on the horizon.
March 10, 2008
As New Energy Finance uncovers which private-equity firms racked up the most cleantech deals last year, the industry continues to see more financing in wave energy, transportation, solar, carbon offsets and biofuels.
March 06, 2008
As countries pledge funds for greener policies at the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference, President Bush makes commitments that sound strangely familiar.
March 05, 2008
Shenanigans such as alleged dummy companies, formed to help attract customers who didn't want to pay Chinese taxes, are a sign of heating competition in cellulosic ethanol, analyst says.
March 03, 2008
Greentech leaders look to the Washington International Renewable Energy Conference, which begins Tuesday, to get a hint of environmental policies to come.