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"Top 50" in biofuels according to Biofuels Digest

By Lawrence B. Ebert, Esq.

'The 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy' according to Biofuels Digest on 22 Dec 08:

1. Coskata

2. Sapphire Energy

3. Virent Energy Systems

4. POET

5. Range Fuels

6. Solazyme

7. Amyris Biotechnologies

8. Mascoma

9. DuPont Danisco

10. UOP

11. ZeaChem

12. Aquaflow Bionomic

13. Bluefire Ethanol

14. Novozymes

15. Qteros

16. Petrobras

17. Cobalt Biofuels

18. Iogen

19. Synthetic Genomics

20. Abengoa Energy

21. KL Energy

22. INEOS

23. GreenFuel

24. Vital Renewable Energy

25. LS9

26. Raven Biofuels

27. Gevo

28. St.1 Biofuels Oy

29. Primafuel

30. Taurus Energy

31. Ceres

32. Syngenta

33. Aurora Biofuels

34. Bionavitas

35. Algenol

36. Verenium

37. Simply Green

38. Carbon Green

39. SEKAB

40. Osage Bioenergy

41. Dynamotive

42. Sustainable Power

43. ETH Bioenergia

44. Choren

45. Origin Oil

46. Propel Fuels

47. GEM Biofuels

48. Lake Erie Biofuels

49. Cavitation Technologies

50. Lotus/Jaguar - Omnivore

Of "where are they in February?", note a Feb. 09 post at GreenLight:

It?s been tough times recently for companies seeking to make commercial quantities of ?next-generation? ethanol made from non-food sources like wood chips, switch grass or municipal waste.

Irvine, Calif.-based BlueFire Ethanol recently postponed by six months its plans to start building a $130 million ethanol plant in Mecca, Calif. this year (see BlueFire Ethanol to Build $130M Plant in Mecca), saying it only had about $20 million of the plant?s projected $100 million cost in hand.

Cambridge, Mass.-based Verenium (NSDQ: VRNM), which announced last month that it was ready to build a 36 million gallon-per-year cellulosic ethanol plant in Florida for between $250 million and $300 million, faced delisting from the Nasdaq exchange in December, and reported a loss of $133.24 million in the third quarter of 2008, a big drop from a loss of $19.88 million in the same quarter of 2007 (see Verenium Plans Cellulosic Ethanol Plant in Florida).

And Warrenville, Ill.-based Coskata Inc. has said it might have to postpone from 2010 to 2011 its plans for a $100 million cellulosic ethanol plant. Still in the works is its exploration of building a $400 million, 100 million gallon-per-year plant in partnership with U.S. Sugar Corp. (see Coskata Lining Up Sugary Deal).

The slow going for cellulosic ethanol companies could stymie the federal government?s goal of getting 100 million gallons of the stuff by 2010, according to research firm ThinkEquity, which estimates that only 28.5 million gallons will be available by then (see Consumers to Pick Up Tab for Off-Target Cellulosic Ethanol Industry).

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Full post as published by IPBiz on February 14, 2009 (boomark / email).