Ontario targets $7.5M for biofuel
TheStar.com - Toronto, Canada
Program will fund research focused on using agricultural waste, not food, to generate energy
July 03, 2008
Rob Ferguson
Queen's Park Bureau
The Ontario government is pouring another $7.5 million into research for biofuels that can be made from agricultural waste such as corn husks and manure instead of food crops.
With concerns mounting that biofuels are taking food out of people's mouths and pushing prices higher, the government will today announce $5 million for a new biofuels institute at the University of Western Ontario in London, sources told the Toronto Star.
Another $2.5 million will go toward a demonstration project on a farm outside of London that is turning manure and waste water into biogas, producing enough to power about 800 homes.
"There is a huge demand now for more sustainable biofuels," said a source familiar with the announcement, to be made this morning by Research and Innovation Minister John Wilkinson in London.
"There are researchers and labs all across the province that are already working on this."
One scientist active in the field said the first generation of biofuels, such as ethanol based on the sugar in kernels of corn, has been relatively easy to develop, but the goal is to find a more efficient way of developing fuels from waste, such as corn husks and stalks, which aren't used as food.
"It's a whole lot trickier," said University of Guelph professor Anthony Clarke, noting it is more difficult to isolate the energy in cellulose – the material in stalks and husks that gives the plant its strength – than it is to extract the energy contained within the sugars of the kernel.
He calls that process the "Holy Grail" for researchers in the quest for new fuels to replace fossil-based fuels.
"We need to boost the efficiency and make it cost effective ... a breakthrough could come tomorrow, or it could take another five years," he added.
The biogas project, located at Stanton Farms near the hamlet of Ilderton, is a collaboration between UWO, the University of Guelph and the University of Waterloo.
It uses a biodigester system that turns manure and waste water into a gas that can be used as an energy source.
Aside from working on fuels, the new Institute for Chemicals and Fuels from Alternate Resources at UWO's experimental field station will look at ways to use a process called pyrolysis for turning agricultural waste such as corn husks into organic insecticides, fertilizers and pesticides.
The institute is working with a company from nearby Dorchester called Agri-Therm Ltd., which is a spinoff of UWO's engineering faculty that has developed and patented a pyrolysis machine.
The company is taking it on a demonstration tour for potential customers this summer.
There is a huge potential for biofuels using tonnes and tonnes of plant material that is otherwise going to waste, said Clarke, who is working on a $600,000, three-year study on how to break down cellulose in plants into fuel, funded in part by the Ontario government.
Garbage dumps, he adds, are full of materials containing cellulose that have the potential to generate energy if the right technologies can be developed.
But Clarke said such biofuels are a "stopgap measure" to replace oil, gasoline and natural gas for the time being.
"They're just supplementing our dependence on fossil fuels," he added, noting hydrogen, solar and other renewable fuels remain better long-term options.
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NewEnergyFinance.com defines Renewable Power and Clean Energy Sectors
What is New Energy?
At New Energy Finance we define the following 16 sectors as making up the clean energy industry:
Renewable Energy & Bioenergy Sectors
* 1. Biofuels
Liquid transportation fuels including biodiesel and bioethanol. These can be derived from a range of biomass sources, including sugar cane, rape seed (canola), soybean oil or cellulose. Our database excludes producers of base biomass, but includes suppliers of everything from the processing technologies and equipment, through the logistics of distribution, to manufacturers of energy systems which are specially adapted for the use of biofuels and products, and the services on which they depend.
* 2. Biomass, solid waste and biogas
Production and consumption of solid and gaseous fuels derived from biomass. Solid biomass for the energy sector can include a number of specially-grown crops, such as elephant grass or coppiced willow, but it can also consist of crop residues such as straw. We include in this sector processors of other waste matter for energy generation, such as sewage waste, chemical by-products and biogas produced from municipal waste, as their exploitation often involves the same technologies as grown-for-purpose biomass. Increasingly we are seeing developers, generators and utilities enter this sector.
* 3. Geothermal
Geothermal power has long played a part in the energy mix of countries with obvious geothermal resources, such as Iceland and Japan. Recent advances in two areas, however, mean that geothermal energy can play an increasing role worldwide: new drilling techniques allow users to tap into resources that had been too deep to access; and new ways of extracting useful power from lower temperature geothermal fields allow productive use of resources that could not have been used economically in the past.
* 4. Mini-Hydro (<50MW)
There may seem little new about hydroelectric power. Indeed at New Energy Finance we don't cover large-scale hydroelectric power projects. However, there are interesting developments in small-scale and low-head hydro power, and even very small scale hydro solutions. Hydro power is undergoing a renaissance and has a lot to contribute to the deployment of renewable energy globally.
* 5. Marine
The marine sector covers all technologies relating to extraction of energy from the sea. Possibilities include waves and tide, either via tidal barrages or tidal flow generators. Note that exploitation of marine biomass would be categorised in biomass, rather than in this sector.
* 6. Solar
The Solar sector covers all technologies that capture energy directly from the sun, either using a photo-voltaic (PV) material, or via a passive technology such as a concentrator or stirling engine. The solar energy sector is already substantial - cost reductions through new technologies or through increased manufacturing scale should see it breaking into new areas of energy demand over the coming decades.
* 7. Wind
Wind is the renewable technology that has had the biggest impact on our energy usage patterns over the past decade. The next decade will see continued activity, particularly in developing countries and offshore. The Wind Energy Sector includes components and sub-assemblies for wind turbines as well as manufacturers of turbines themselves. A big part of this sector, however, consists of the various developers, generators, utilities and engineering firms that have sprung up to exploit opportunities to build wind farms around the world.
Power Architecture Sectors
* 8. Generation Efficiency
This sector covers technologies that result in a step-change improvement in the generating efficiency or reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of existing power generation equipment. Important technologies in this sector include breakthroughs in motor or generator design, as well as software, sensor and control technologies which result in step-change improvement. This sector includes breakthrough CHP technologies (i.e. that are more than just relocating traditional generating equipment closer to heat users).
* 9. Smart Distribution
As sources of power supply become more variable (many renewable sources are intermittent), and the importance of reducing grid losses becomes higher with higher power costs, so the significance of improving power distribution will grow. This sector includes a number of technologies that target such improvement, from the forecasting of renewable resource availability, through software to balance supply and demand or find grid faults, to technology that allows peak shifting or intelligent meter reading.
* 10. Power storage
Many renewable energy and emerging energy technologies are either intermittent, or have response curves that are unable to follow the dynamic demands that will be put on them when deployed. Batteries and other energy storage technologies therefore become key enablers for any shift to these technologies. We call the sector power storage in order to underline the fact that hydrogen storage is in the Hydrogen sector, even though we include here mechanical technologies like flywheels that are straight potential replacements for batteries.
* 11. Energy Efficiency and Demand Reduction
Power efficiency and demand reduction approaches may not strictly be part of the renewable energy and energy technology industry, but they are highly relevant to investors in the space. Shifts in our sources of energy over the coming 20 years must be accompanied by wholesale improvement in our energy efficiency. This sector covers a range of technologies that reduce the use of energy in retail and commercial buildings, including advanced insulation, building components and intelligent systems for managing power consumption. It also includes technologies focused on reducing the use of energy in a wide variety of industrial processes.
* 12. Carbon Capture and Sequestration
Given the very substantial energy appetites of China, India and the US, and the substantial amounts of coal and natural gas available in those countries, it is highly unlikely that they will move rapidly enough to clean and renewable energy sources. One type of technology may allow us to continue using these fuels without adding to the emissions of CO2. Carbon capture and sequestration technologies involve the separation of CO2 from the exhaust stream from the burning of fossil fuels, and its long-term storage, either in depleted oil and gas fields, under the ocean or elsewhere.
Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Sectors
* 13. Hydrogen
The hydrogen sector covers everything from the production and storage of hydrogen, through its distribution and the various technologies and applications in which it can be used. Hydrogen is not, of course, a renewable fuel source - it is only a carrier of energy, in the same way electricity is not a source but a carrier of power. But if produced renewably hydrogen looks like a promising candidate to replace fossil fuels in transport as these are depleted, and governments and corporations are investing accordingly.
* 14. Fuel Cells
Many observers believe that fuel cells will lie at the heart of any post-fossil energy architecture. Although they have been around for 150 years and their performance is not in doubt, their high manufacturing costs and low reliability mean that they have yet to capture any mass markets. A large number of companies and research initiatives are hoping to change that over the coming decade. We draw a distinction between the hydrogen industry and the fuel cell sector: fuel cells can burn a variety of hydrocarbon fuels, and hydrogen can be used by other systems, such as internal combustion engines. There is, however, substantial crossover between the two sectors
Other Sectors
* 15. Carbon Markets
The ratification of the Kyoto Protocol gave a boost to the European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS). Elsewhere in the world other carbon markets are emerging, whether as a result of regulation or for voluntary trading. The carbon market is not part of the clean energy industry, but will significantly influence its development. The main companies participating in the energy-relevant aspects of the carbon market are logged in this sector.
* 16. Services & Support
The rapid growth of the clean energy industry will require the development of a complete sector of service companies dedicated to serving the needs of technology and equipment suppliers, owners of renewable energy and biofuels assets, and so on. In this sector we put providers of information and research (such as ourselves), specialised clean energy financial services companies, consultants and the like.
In addition to these 16 sectors, which make up the clean energy industry itself, the New Energy Finance Desktop includes details of other active and important organisations of two types: the general financial services industry, and the Governments, NGOs and policy-makers.
There is, of course, a futher sector which could contribute very significantly to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions: nuclear power. We don't take an absolutist anti-nuclear position - in fact we believe that nuclear power deserves a place in the energy mix of most developed countries - but we don't consider nuclear power to fall within our remit. Whatever a country's position on nuclear power, the need to implement renewable energy and new technologies throughout the remainder of its energy architecture remains as urgent. And unlike increasing the use of renewable energy sources, reliance on nuclear power will not improve the world's energy security.
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At New Energy Finance we define the following 16 sectors as making up the clean energy industry:
Renewable Energy & Bioenergy Sectors
* 1. Biofuels
Liquid transportation fuels including biodiesel and bioethanol. These can be derived from a range of biomass sources, including sugar cane, rape seed (canola), soybean oil or cellulose. Our database excludes producers of base biomass, but includes suppliers of everything from the processing technologies and equipment, through the logistics of distribution, to manufacturers of energy systems which are specially adapted for the use of biofuels and products, and the services on which they depend.
* 2. Biomass, solid waste and biogas
Production and consumption of solid and gaseous fuels derived from biomass. Solid biomass for the energy sector can include a number of specially-grown crops, such as elephant grass or coppiced willow, but it can also consist of crop residues such as straw. We include in this sector processors of other waste matter for energy generation, such as sewage waste, chemical by-products and biogas produced from municipal waste, as their exploitation often involves the same technologies as grown-for-purpose biomass. Increasingly we are seeing developers, generators and utilities enter this sector.
* 3. Geothermal
Geothermal power has long played a part in the energy mix of countries with obvious geothermal resources, such as Iceland and Japan. Recent advances in two areas, however, mean that geothermal energy can play an increasing role worldwide: new drilling techniques allow users to tap into resources that had been too deep to access; and new ways of extracting useful power from lower temperature geothermal fields allow productive use of resources that could not have been used economically in the past.
* 4. Mini-Hydro (<50MW)
There may seem little new about hydroelectric power. Indeed at New Energy Finance we don't cover large-scale hydroelectric power projects. However, there are interesting developments in small-scale and low-head hydro power, and even very small scale hydro solutions. Hydro power is undergoing a renaissance and has a lot to contribute to the deployment of renewable energy globally.
* 5. Marine
The marine sector covers all technologies relating to extraction of energy from the sea. Possibilities include waves and tide, either via tidal barrages or tidal flow generators. Note that exploitation of marine biomass would be categorised in biomass, rather than in this sector.
* 6. Solar
The Solar sector covers all technologies that capture energy directly from the sun, either using a photo-voltaic (PV) material, or via a passive technology such as a concentrator or stirling engine. The solar energy sector is already substantial - cost reductions through new technologies or through increased manufacturing scale should see it breaking into new areas of energy demand over the coming decades.
* 7. Wind
Wind is the renewable technology that has had the biggest impact on our energy usage patterns over the past decade. The next decade will see continued activity, particularly in developing countries and offshore. The Wind Energy Sector includes components and sub-assemblies for wind turbines as well as manufacturers of turbines themselves. A big part of this sector, however, consists of the various developers, generators, utilities and engineering firms that have sprung up to exploit opportunities to build wind farms around the world.
Power Architecture Sectors
* 8. Generation Efficiency
This sector covers technologies that result in a step-change improvement in the generating efficiency or reduction in greenhouse gas emissions of existing power generation equipment. Important technologies in this sector include breakthroughs in motor or generator design, as well as software, sensor and control technologies which result in step-change improvement. This sector includes breakthrough CHP technologies (i.e. that are more than just relocating traditional generating equipment closer to heat users).
* 9. Smart Distribution
As sources of power supply become more variable (many renewable sources are intermittent), and the importance of reducing grid losses becomes higher with higher power costs, so the significance of improving power distribution will grow. This sector includes a number of technologies that target such improvement, from the forecasting of renewable resource availability, through software to balance supply and demand or find grid faults, to technology that allows peak shifting or intelligent meter reading.
* 10. Power storage
Many renewable energy and emerging energy technologies are either intermittent, or have response curves that are unable to follow the dynamic demands that will be put on them when deployed. Batteries and other energy storage technologies therefore become key enablers for any shift to these technologies. We call the sector power storage in order to underline the fact that hydrogen storage is in the Hydrogen sector, even though we include here mechanical technologies like flywheels that are straight potential replacements for batteries.
* 11. Energy Efficiency and Demand Reduction
Power efficiency and demand reduction approaches may not strictly be part of the renewable energy and energy technology industry, but they are highly relevant to investors in the space. Shifts in our sources of energy over the coming 20 years must be accompanied by wholesale improvement in our energy efficiency. This sector covers a range of technologies that reduce the use of energy in retail and commercial buildings, including advanced insulation, building components and intelligent systems for managing power consumption. It also includes technologies focused on reducing the use of energy in a wide variety of industrial processes.
* 12. Carbon Capture and Sequestration
Given the very substantial energy appetites of China, India and the US, and the substantial amounts of coal and natural gas available in those countries, it is highly unlikely that they will move rapidly enough to clean and renewable energy sources. One type of technology may allow us to continue using these fuels without adding to the emissions of CO2. Carbon capture and sequestration technologies involve the separation of CO2 from the exhaust stream from the burning of fossil fuels, and its long-term storage, either in depleted oil and gas fields, under the ocean or elsewhere.
Hydrogen & Fuel Cell Sectors
* 13. Hydrogen
The hydrogen sector covers everything from the production and storage of hydrogen, through its distribution and the various technologies and applications in which it can be used. Hydrogen is not, of course, a renewable fuel source - it is only a carrier of energy, in the same way electricity is not a source but a carrier of power. But if produced renewably hydrogen looks like a promising candidate to replace fossil fuels in transport as these are depleted, and governments and corporations are investing accordingly.
* 14. Fuel Cells
Many observers believe that fuel cells will lie at the heart of any post-fossil energy architecture. Although they have been around for 150 years and their performance is not in doubt, their high manufacturing costs and low reliability mean that they have yet to capture any mass markets. A large number of companies and research initiatives are hoping to change that over the coming decade. We draw a distinction between the hydrogen industry and the fuel cell sector: fuel cells can burn a variety of hydrocarbon fuels, and hydrogen can be used by other systems, such as internal combustion engines. There is, however, substantial crossover between the two sectors
Other Sectors
* 15. Carbon Markets
The ratification of the Kyoto Protocol gave a boost to the European Emissions Trading Scheme (EU-ETS). Elsewhere in the world other carbon markets are emerging, whether as a result of regulation or for voluntary trading. The carbon market is not part of the clean energy industry, but will significantly influence its development. The main companies participating in the energy-relevant aspects of the carbon market are logged in this sector.
* 16. Services & Support
The rapid growth of the clean energy industry will require the development of a complete sector of service companies dedicated to serving the needs of technology and equipment suppliers, owners of renewable energy and biofuels assets, and so on. In this sector we put providers of information and research (such as ourselves), specialised clean energy financial services companies, consultants and the like.
In addition to these 16 sectors, which make up the clean energy industry itself, the New Energy Finance Desktop includes details of other active and important organisations of two types: the general financial services industry, and the Governments, NGOs and policy-makers.
There is, of course, a futher sector which could contribute very significantly to reductions in greenhouse gas emissions: nuclear power. We don't take an absolutist anti-nuclear position - in fact we believe that nuclear power deserves a place in the energy mix of most developed countries - but we don't consider nuclear power to fall within our remit. Whatever a country's position on nuclear power, the need to implement renewable energy and new technologies throughout the remainder of its energy architecture remains as urgent. And unlike increasing the use of renewable energy sources, reliance on nuclear power will not improve the world's energy security.
More suggested research:
Geotherma.Info Geothermal Energy Companies
WindIntell.com Windpower Stocks Investing
Wednesday, November 21, 2007
Dubai looks into biodiesel and solar power
Roads & Transport Authority Studies Feasibility Of Use Of Green Diesel For Abras
On The Use Of Green Diesel For Operating Abras In A Bid To Minimize Pollution Associated With Diesel-Operated Abra Engines
article from: http://www.dubaicityguide.com
Dubai Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) is contemplating the use of green diesel for abras, under a drive to utilize renewable & environment-friendly energy sources, in implementation of its vision aiming at providing safe & smooth transport for all.
Engineer Khalid Al Zahid, Director of Marine Projects at RTA Marine Agency, stated that the Agency is always in pursuit of multiple environment-friendly energy options for operating marine transport modes. For this end, Research & Studies Center, at RTA Marine Agency is conducting a study, in collaboration with a leading national company, on the use of green diesel for operating abras in a bid to minimize pollution associated with diesel-operated abra engines.
He commented that further studies are underway regarding adopting Hybrid Engines for marine transport modes.
Such technology envisages combination of fuel engines & electrical turbines with a view to producing environment-friendly energy to produce the same amount of power with lesser amount of pollution and efficient fuel consumption compared to traditional engines.
Recently RTA launched an initiative, with a leading establishment in the emirate (Emirates Gas Co.) to achieve the same purpose under a project aiming at switching abra engines to natural gas.
"Operating abras on natural gas will minimize pollution levels, as well as reduce fuel costs by 30%; which is equivalent to one million dirham annually. Percentage of pollution resulting from smoke columns associated with diesel operation will be cut by 66%, and emission of toxic gases from exhausts of abra engines (such as Co, CO2, Nox and So2) will also be slashed" said Al Zahid.
He pointed out that switching operation of various marine transport modes to renewable energy sources, and adoption of the best international practices leading to innovative solutions and uplifting the level of services provided to the public are among the key objectives of the Agency pursued by Marine Projects Dep’t.
"In early April 2007, Marine Agency will embark on another solar energy project aiming at cutting down pollution resulting from diesel engines of abras by 80% and reducing fuel costs by 65% from Dh3.6 million (in diesel engines) to Dh2.2 million (in solar energy engines). Such a project will also reduce emission of toxic gases from exhausts of abra engines (such as Co, CO2, Nox and So2), as well as noise pollution from 92dB (in diesel engines) to 65dB (in solar energy engines). Additionally, solar energy engines do not involve any fuel spillage, whereas diesel engines are associated with oil spills causing water pollution, environmental hazards and undermining public health.
Al Zahid added that as Marine Agency is fully aware of the role of renewable energy and its impact on environment, it will take part in a conference specialized in marine transport modes and operating them on environment-friendly energy sources, which will be organized by Dubai Maritime City at the end of this month.
On The Use Of Green Diesel For Operating Abras In A Bid To Minimize Pollution Associated With Diesel-Operated Abra Engines
article from: http://www.dubaicityguide.com
Dubai Roads & Transport Authority (RTA) is contemplating the use of green diesel for abras, under a drive to utilize renewable & environment-friendly energy sources, in implementation of its vision aiming at providing safe & smooth transport for all.
Engineer Khalid Al Zahid, Director of Marine Projects at RTA Marine Agency, stated that the Agency is always in pursuit of multiple environment-friendly energy options for operating marine transport modes. For this end, Research & Studies Center, at RTA Marine Agency is conducting a study, in collaboration with a leading national company, on the use of green diesel for operating abras in a bid to minimize pollution associated with diesel-operated abra engines.
He commented that further studies are underway regarding adopting Hybrid Engines for marine transport modes.
Such technology envisages combination of fuel engines & electrical turbines with a view to producing environment-friendly energy to produce the same amount of power with lesser amount of pollution and efficient fuel consumption compared to traditional engines.
Recently RTA launched an initiative, with a leading establishment in the emirate (Emirates Gas Co.) to achieve the same purpose under a project aiming at switching abra engines to natural gas.
"Operating abras on natural gas will minimize pollution levels, as well as reduce fuel costs by 30%; which is equivalent to one million dirham annually. Percentage of pollution resulting from smoke columns associated with diesel operation will be cut by 66%, and emission of toxic gases from exhausts of abra engines (such as Co, CO2, Nox and So2) will also be slashed" said Al Zahid.
He pointed out that switching operation of various marine transport modes to renewable energy sources, and adoption of the best international practices leading to innovative solutions and uplifting the level of services provided to the public are among the key objectives of the Agency pursued by Marine Projects Dep’t.
"In early April 2007, Marine Agency will embark on another solar energy project aiming at cutting down pollution resulting from diesel engines of abras by 80% and reducing fuel costs by 65% from Dh3.6 million (in diesel engines) to Dh2.2 million (in solar energy engines). Such a project will also reduce emission of toxic gases from exhausts of abra engines (such as Co, CO2, Nox and So2), as well as noise pollution from 92dB (in diesel engines) to 65dB (in solar energy engines). Additionally, solar energy engines do not involve any fuel spillage, whereas diesel engines are associated with oil spills causing water pollution, environmental hazards and undermining public health.
Al Zahid added that as Marine Agency is fully aware of the role of renewable energy and its impact on environment, it will take part in a conference specialized in marine transport modes and operating them on environment-friendly energy sources, which will be organized by Dubai Maritime City at the end of this month.
Saturday, November 10, 2007
Directory of Biofuel, Ethanol and Biomass Invetsments
Biogas & Ethanol Companies - Publicly Listed Stocks
Actelios (ACT.MI) (Italy) Production of energy through renewable sources and the supply of integrated environmental services.
Amelot Holdings, Inc. (AMHD: OTCPK) is a diversified holding company focused on alternative energy and biofuels.
Alcard Chemical Group Inc. (OTCPK: ACMG) represents a significant market opportunity due to a serious worldwide supply shortage of raw materials for polymers as well as an increased requirement for ethanol and biodiesel. ACMG has been concentrating on innovative methods for biomass valorisation for the past decade, specifically petroleum-independent fuel and plastics resin production. It's proprietary technology represents today's most economical and advanced manufacturing process for plastic raw materials, ethanol and bio-diesel, allowing production at cost savings of up to 40% when compared to current production methods.
Allegro Biodiesel Corporation (OTCBB: ABDS) is a producer and distributor of biodiesel fuel. The Company began production and sales in April 2006, as the first operational producer of biodiesel in Louisiana. The biodiesel fuel production facility is located in Pollock, Louisiana and uses renewable agricultural-based feedstock (primarily soybean oil) to produce biodiesel. Current production capacity is approximately 12 million gallons of biodiesel per year.
ALL Fuels & Energy Company (Other OTC: AFSE.PK) acquired ALL Energy Company, a development-stage ethanol company organized to operate as an ethanol producer, focusing primarily on the production and sale of ethanol and its co-products. AFSE has adopted the business plan of ALL Energy Company.
Alternative Energy Sources, Inc. (OTCBB: AENS) a development stage company, engages in the construction, ownership, and operation of fuel grade ethanol plants. The company also intends to produce dried distilled grains, which are used in the manufacture of various animal feeds.
Andersons Inc (ANDE) It operates through four segments: Agriculture, Rail, Turf and Specialty, and Retail. Agriculture segment engages in purchasing and merchandising grain, as well as operating grain elevator facilities in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. Rail segment engages in buying, selling, leasing, rebuilding, and repairing various types of used railcars and rail equipment. Turf and Specialty segment engages in the production and marketing of turf and ornamental plant fertilizer, and control products. Retail segment offers home center products, hardware, home remodeling, lawn and garden products, housewares, automotive products, sporting goods, pet products, bath soft goods, and food products through its stores.
Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE:ADM) engages in the procurement, transportation, storing, processing, and merchandising of agricultural commodities and products. The company operates in three segments: Oilseeds Processing, Corn Processing, and Agricultural Services. The Oilseed Processing segment processes oilseeds, such as soybeans, cottonseed, sunflower seeds, canola, peanuts, and flaxseed into vegetable oils and meals for the food and feed industries. The Corn Processing segment engages in wet milling and dry milling corn operations, which produce syrup, starch, glucose, dextrose, and sweeteners. The Agricultural Services segment engages in buying, storing, cleaning, and transporting agricultural commodities, such as oilseeds, corn, wheat, milo, oats and barley, and reselling these commodities to the agricultural processing industry.
Australian Biodiesel Group (ABG) Limited (ASX: ABJ) (Australia) Australian Biodiesel groups technology produces a high quality biodiesel that can be used in numerous ways - as a direct substitute for conventional petro-diesel or as a blended product.
Australian Ethanol Limited (AEX: AAE) (Australia) Manufacture and distribution of fuel ethanol.
AUSTRALIAN RENEWABLE FUELS LIMITED (ASX: ARW) Australian Renewable Fuels Limited is an Australian company currently developing two biodiesel plants, one in Adelaide, South Australia, and another in Picton, Western Australia.
Aventine Renewable Energy, Inc. (AVR) engages in the production, supply, and marketing of ethanol, feed products, and bio-products in the United States. It offers fuel ethanol, corn gluten meal, corn gluten feed, corn condensed distillers solubles, food grade yeast, feed grade yeast, and fermentation grade yeast. The company supplies more than 500 million gallons of the nation's growing ethanol needs.
Better Biodiesel (OTCBB: BBDS) has developed proprietary waterless technology that significantly reduces the costs of biodiesel production and its impact on the environment.
Biofuels Corporation PLC (BFC.L ) (London) The main activity of Biofuels is the large scale production and exploitation of biodiesel and glycerin following the construction and commissioning of the initial plant
Biomaxx Systems Inc. (BMXSF) Seeks to become a leader in the emerging cellulosic biomass-to-ethanol industry. Their mission is to convert biomass that is currently being abandoned or land filled into ethanol and other valuable co-products.
Blue Diamond Ventures, Inc. (OTCPK: BLDV) is an agriculture, bio fuels and commercial development company with operations in Belize and the U.S.
BlueFire Ethanol Inc. (OTCPK: BFRE)is established to deploy the commercially ready, patented, and proven Arkenol Technology Process for the profitable conversion of cellulosic ("Green Waste") waste materials to ethanol, a viable alternative to gasoline.
China Clean Energy Inc. (OTCBB: CCGY) through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Fujian Zhongde Technology Co., Ltd., is engaged in the development, manufacturing, and distribution of biodiesel fuel and specialty chemical products made from renewable resources. Since its inception, the Company has been engaged in the manufacture of high-quality specialty chemical products from renewable resources. Through its research and development efforts, the Company developed a proprietary process for refining biodiesel fuel from waste grease and certain vegetable oils. Using this proprietary process, the China Clean Energy began producing biodiesel in 2005 and commenced selling biodiesel commercially starting in December 2005.
Consolidated Biofuels, Inc. (CSBF) Biodiesel production facilities.
Cosan - ON (CSAN3.SA) (Brazil) One of the world’s largest sugarcane and ethanol producers.
Cropenergies (CE2.DE) (GERMANY) Manufacturer of ethanol.
Diversa Corporation (DVSA) the development of high-performance specialty enzymes derived from bio-diverse environments as well as patented DirectEvolution® technologies. Diversa customizes enzymes for manufacturers within the alternative fuel such as ethanol , industrial, and health and nutrition markets to enable higher throughput, lower costs, and improved environmental outcomes.
D1 Oils plc (DOO.L) (London) D1 Oils’ objective is to become a global sustainable, low cost producer of biodiesel and supplier of crude vegetable oil and to achieve and maintain low production costs and consistent, high volume, quality output. The Group’s strategy is to control and manage its operations on a regional basis by securing plantation rights and establishing refinery operations.
Dyadic International, Inc. (AMEX: DIL) engages in the development and distribution of specialty enzymes and related products for sale to the textile, food and feed, starch, pulp and paper, and other industries in the United States of America, Hong Kong, Poland, and the Netherlands. The company focuses on functional proteomics through the discovery, development, and manufacturing of novel products, including enzymes and proteins, derived from the genes of complex living organisms. Using its proprietary platform technologies for gene discovery and gene expression, Dyadic develops additional biological products, such as proteins, enzymes, polypeptides, and small molecules for use by itself and for applications in large segments of the agricultural, industrial, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries.
Earth Biofuels Inc (OTCBB: EBOF) engages in the production, distribution, and retail of alternative fuels, with a focus on biodiesel fuel, in the United States. It produces pure biodiesel fuel (B100) through the utilization of vegetable oils, such as soy and canola oil as raw material. The company distributes petroleum/biodiesel blended fuel, such as B20 through wholesale distributors and direct retail sales.
Environmental Power Corporation (OTCBB: EPG) through its subsidiaries, engages in the development, ownership, and operation of renewable energy production facilities. It develops and owns noncommodity, renewable, and alternative energy facilities that produces biofuels or electricity by utilizing fuel derived from its agricultural waste management processes or alternative fuel sources, such as waste coal.
The EnviTec Biogas AG ( Germany ) is one of the leading enterprises of the biogas industry in Germany. Next to tank construction, its main focuses are planning, financing, realisation and putting into operation of biogas plants. Top priority is given to quality and safety when planning and realising the plants and last but not least they are achieved by the CE labeling.
EOP Biodiesel AG (E2B.DE) (Germany) Biodiesel manufacturer.
Ethanex Energy, Inc. (OTCBB: EHNX) is an alternative energy company whose mission is to become the industry's low-cost producer. The company expects to achieve this industry position through the application of next-generation feedstock technologies and use of alternative energy sources. Ethanex Energy is currently developing three ethanol production facilities located in the mid-west, with a combined production capacity of approximately 300 million gallons of ethanol per year.
Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: GPRE) a development stage company, plans to produce ethanol and animal feed products in southwestern Iowa.
GS CleanTech Corporation (OTCBB: GSCT) provides various environmental management services to industrial organizations in the United States. The company’s environmental services include transportation, distribution, recycling, and disposal services specific to the materials and processes of its clients for a range of industrial wastes; and field services, such as remedial, industrial cleaning, and other related services.
Imperial Petroleum, Inc.(OTCBB: IPMN) operates as an energy and mineral mining company in the United States. The company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the production and exploration of crude oil and natural gas, as well as in the mineral mining, with a focus on gold mining.
H2Diesel (OTCBB: HTWO ) is a development stage company that holds an exclusive license for North America, Central America and the Caribbean to proprietary technology for the manufacture of an alternative biofuel from domestically produced vegetable oils that is intended to be marketed as a heating fuel, fuel for power generation, or alternatively, as a new class of biofuel or fuel additive.
International Fuel Technology, Inc. (OTCBB: IFUE) IFT is actively engaged in discussions with the bio-diesel production industry and fuel additive companies regarding the specific benefits that IFT's additive technology brings to bio-diesel fuel blends.
Intrepid Technology and Resources, Inc.(OTCBB: IESV) operate as a biofuels renewable and alternative energy development company in the United States. It specializes in developing, constructing, operating, and owning or co-owning a portfolio of projects in the biofuels production area of the renewable energy sector. The company primarily undertakes the construction and operation of biodiesel and ethanol production facilities. Intrepid also produces and distributes biofuels, with a primary focus on biogas.
Kreido Biofuels (OTCBB:KRBF) - provides renewable energy through its proprietary process intensification technology - the STT® system. Kreido Biofuels has also established collaborations with university and government laboratories, such as the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), to gain a leading position in the development of advanced chemical processes.
Lignol Innovations Ltd. (LEC:TSX.V) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lignol Energy Corporation. Lignol is a Canadian company undertaking the development of biorefineries for the production of fuelgrade ethanol and other biochemical co-products from cellulosic biomass feedstocks. Lignol’s modified solvent based pre-treatment technology, originally developed by a former affiliate of General Electric (GE), and then further developed and commercialized for wood-pulp applications by a subsidiary of Repap Enterprises Inc., facilitates the rapid, high-yield conversion of cellulose to ethanol and the production of value-added biochemical co-products, including lignin. Lignol is executing on its development plan with several major Canadian companies in a strategic partnership to further develop and integrate the core technologies on a commercial scale.
MGP Ingredients, Inc.(NASDAQ: MGPI) produces certain ingredients and distillery products. Its ingredients consists of specialty ingredients, including specialty wheat starches and proteins; commodity ingredients, including commodity wheat starches and vital wheat gluten; and mill feeds. MGPI’s Terratek™ line of starch- and protein-based polymbers has been developed to address the need for eco-friendly, biobased goods provides an excellent alternative to petroleum-based polymers.
Mission Biofuels Limited (ASX: MBT) (Australia) Biodiesel refinery investment.
Naturel Fuel Limited (NFL.AX) (Australia) Manufacturer of biodiesel and glycerin from renewable sources.
NewGen Technologies, Inc. (NWGN.OB) With subsidiary ReFuel America is focused on providing advanced fuels with increased performance and decreased harmful emissions for all petroleum engine use.
Nova Biosource Fuels, Inc. (OTCBB:NVBF) is an energy company in the business of synthesizing and distributing renewable fuel products and related co-products. Nova is now focused on the construction and operation of two to four biodiesel refineries, with production capacity of between 120 to 240 million gallons of biodiesel fuel on an annual basis. Nova's business strategy for the next three years includes the construction of up to seven biodiesel refineries with production capacities ranging from 20 to 60 million gallons each per year. All of Nova's refineries will use its proprietary, patented process technology, which enables the use of a broader range of lower cost feedstocks.
O2Diesel Corporation (AMEX: OTD) a development stage company, offers a fuel additive product that enables distillate liquid transportation fuels to burn cleaner by facilitating the addition of ethanol as an oxygenate to these fuels. The company offers O2D05 that stabilizes and enhances the blending of fuel grade ethanol with diesel fuel. Its customers include urban truck and delivery fleets, municipal transit authorities, port logistical equipment, construction equipment, mobile or stationary power generators, railroads, and military vehicles, as well as municipal, state, and federal governments.
Pacific Ethanol, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEIX) engages in the development, production, and marketing of renewable fuels in the western United States. Pacific Ethanol is constructing an ethanol production facility in Madera County, California, as well as developing four additional plants on the West Coast. Kinergy Marketing, LLC, the company’s wholly owned subsidiary, is a West Coast based marketer of ethanol. In addition, the company engages in the identification and development of other renewable fuel technologies, such as cellulose-based ethanol production and bio-diesel.
Panda Ethanol Inc. (OTCBB:PDAE) currently developing fuel ethanol refineries and biomass facilities in the United States. Panda Ethanol's founder is Panda Energy International Inc., a privately-held company which has built more than 9,000 MW of electric generation capacity at a cost of $5 billion. In 2005, Newsweek magazine named a Panda company as one of the 10 most eco-friendly companies in America. In 2007, Project Finance Magazine awarded Panda "North American Ethanol Deal of the Year" for the company's financing of its Hereford facility.
Pure Biofuels - (OTCBB: PBOF) in Latin America's rapidly emerging biofuels industry. Pure Biofuels' flagship project, the Callao Port biodiesel refinery near Lima, Peru, is scheduled to commence production in August 2007. The Callao Port refinery will process biodiesel from crude palm oil feedstock. Pure Biofuels has secured memorandums of understanding with local fuel distributors for all of Callao Port's annual biodiesel production.
Renova Energy plc (RVA.L) (London) Producer, marketer and distributor of ethanol.
Rentech Inc. (AMEX: RTK) engages in the development and licensing of technology and projects to transform underutilized hydrocarbon resources into alternative fuels and clean chemicals. It develops process through its Fischer Tropsch Gas-To-Liquids technology, which converts synthesis gas into liquid hydrocarbon products, such as diesel fuel, aviation fuel, naphtha, and other chemicals. The company operates in two segments, Alternative Fuels, and Oil and Gas Field Services. The Alternative Fuels segment develops and markets processes for conversion of carbon-bearing solids or gases into valuable liquid hydrocarbons. The Oil and Gas Field Services segment provides logging services in the progress of drilling operations for the oil and gas industry.
Schmack Biogas (SKBGF.PK) (GERMANY) Manufacturer of biogas installations.
Southridge Enterprises (otcbb:SORD) is a renewable energy company with a mission to become the ethanol producer of choice in the southeastern region of the United States. The Company is focusing its efforts in an area which offers abundant supplies of corn, superior transportation infrastructure and expedited permitting processes. The Company is actively acquiring and developing ethanol production facilities with a planned capacity of 60 million gallons per year and anticipates start-up of the first phase of these operations in 2007. Southridge Enterprises is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
Syngas International (OTCBB: SYNI) is an emerging leader in the development and marketing of low-cost alternate fuels worldwide. Announced May 3, 2006 that it has initiated researching the possibilities of using gases produced from its M2 and PyStR processes to make synthetic liquid bio fuels. The first two liquid bio fuels under investigation are ethanol and methanol due to the rapidly increasing demand for fuels in North America.
Texcom Resources (TEXC.PK) Biodiesel and oilfield waste related products.
Universal Energy Group's (TSX: UEG) sells electricity and natural gas in Ontario and natural gas in British Columbia (through its subsidiary Universal Energy Corporation) to residential, small to mid-size commercial and small industrial customers and sells natural gas in Michigan (through its subsidiary Universal Gas & Electric Corporation) to residential, small to mid-size commercial and small industrial customers. Universal Energy Group (through its subsidiary TGF) is constructing an ethanol facility near Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan that is designed to produce approximately 150 million litres of ethanol annually
U.S. Sustainable Energy: (OTCPK: USSE) holds patent pending technology for a new breakthrough biofuel and carbon based fertilizer. USSEC has successfully demonstrated the most cost effective method of producing biofuel estimated at $.50/gallon according to exhaustive studies and independent Lab confirmation. The company has developed the process, units and catalyst that will transform agricultural biomass into biofuel and fertilizer.
US BioEnergy Corporation (NASDAQ:USBE) produces and markets ethanol and distillers grains in the United States. It also provides facilities management, grain procurement, and risk consulting services to other ethanol producers. The company sells ethanol to refining and marketing companies, and sells distillers grains to livestock operators and marketing companies.
VeraSun Energy Corp (NYSE: VSE) engages in the production and sale of ethanol and its co-products principally in the United States. Ethanol is primarily used as a blend component in the gasoline fuel market. The company also produces and sells ethanol co-products, which include dried distillers grain with solubles, a animal feed sold primarily as an ingredient in beef and dairy cattle rations to agricultural customers; wet distillers grains with solubles, a livestock feed sold as wet feed to agricultural customers; and corn oil. It's the second-largest U.S. producer, next to Archer Daniels Midland Co. producing 230 million gallons of corn-based ethanol a year.
Verbio Vgt Bioenerg (VBK.DE) (Germany) Manufacture and distribute biofuels.
Xethanol Corporation (AMEX: XNL) engages in the production and marketing of ethanol and its co-products in the United States. Ethanol, a clean burning, renewable fuel, is used as a primary gasoline additive. The company also intends to optimize the use of biomass in the renewable energy field and convert biomass that is being abandoned or land filled into ethanol, or other valuable co-products.
Biomass Investments
DynaMotive Energy Systems Corporation (OTCBB: DYMTF) is an energy systems company focused on the development of innovative energy solutions based on its patented fast pyrolysis system. Through the application of fast pyrolysis, Dynamotive unlocks the natural energy found in the world's abundant organic resources normally discarded by the agricultural and forest industries. Dynamotive's technology economically converts biomass into a renewable, environmentally friendly fuel. Dynamotive has successfully demonstrated conversion of these residues into fuel known as BioOil, as well as char.
Green Energy Corp. (OTCPK: GEYC) patented gasification technology converts biomass to a synthetic gas that can be burned to generate electricity, reformed to produce ethanol or used to feed solid oxide fuel cell. Biomass can be defined as material that is derived from living or recently living plant or animal organisms.
Helius Energy (HEGY: London Stock Exchange) Helius Group was established to install and operate biomass fired renewable electricity generation plants designed to meet the growing need for reliable power and support the essential move away from fossil fuels both for economic and environmental reasons, whilst taking advantage of renewable energy legislation.
Laidlaw Energy Group (OTCPK: LLEG) is engaged in the development of independent power plants that generate electricity from renewable resources. LLEG's mission is to build and manage a profitable portfolio of renewable energy facilities through development, acquisition, conversion of existing facilities and through partnering with manufactures that have significant electric and thermal needs. For more information on LLEG, please visit our website at NYENRG.com.
Methanex Corporation (NASDAQ: MEOH)engages in the production, marketing, supply, and distribution of methanol. It owns and operates methanol production facilities, as well as sources methanol produced by others. The company serves chemical and petrochemical producers in North America, Asia Pacific, and Europe, as well as in Latin America.
Nathaniel Energy Corp. (NECX.OB) Nathaniel Energy Corporation operates as a hydrocarbon-based waste-to-energy company. It provides energy alternative to fossil fuels worldwide. The company offers various solutions that divert waste from landfills to fossil fuels in municipalities and industries. It develops environmentally safe energy infrastructures that produce electricity, heat, and steam. The company focuses on its proprietary patented technology, the Thermal Gasifier, which is a 2-stage gasification system designed to convert industrial and commercial waste, biomass, waste tires, and other hydrocarbon-based materials into economical thermal and electrical energy. It also involves in tire fuel processing and provides an alternative fuel supply from waste tires.
Peat Resources Limited (TSX:PET.V) Peat Resources Limited was formed to explore, develop, produce and market peat fuel. The Company's mission is to supply high quality peat fuel on a profitable and sustainable basis to customers requiring economic and environmentally acceptable energy sources. Large, continuing increases in energy prices, increased public sensitivity to environmental issues, as well as the Ontario provincial government's commitment to eliminate the burning of coal for power generation, have enhanced opportunities for the use of peat fuel in electricity generating stations and other facilities.
W2 Energy Inc (OTCPK: WWEN) develops renewable energy technologies and applies it to new generation electrical power systems. Specifically, W2 Energy Inc. produces green power utilizing its core-patented technologies to produce green power generating and clean transportation fuel plants utilizing bio-mass and GTL technologies. W2 Energy Inc. has seasoned management and cutting edge technology. W2 Energy Inc. owns a large technology portfolio of patents and know-how that has been extensively validated and ready for commercial production.
Warren & Baerg Manufacturing, Inc. "Complete Cubing Systems" take clean nonrecycleable papers, cardboards and plastics, grind them to a suitable size and then densify them into a clean burning "fuel cube" that can be blended in with most other fuels.
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Actelios (ACT.MI) (Italy) Production of energy through renewable sources and the supply of integrated environmental services.
Amelot Holdings, Inc. (AMHD: OTCPK) is a diversified holding company focused on alternative energy and biofuels.
Alcard Chemical Group Inc. (OTCPK: ACMG) represents a significant market opportunity due to a serious worldwide supply shortage of raw materials for polymers as well as an increased requirement for ethanol and biodiesel. ACMG has been concentrating on innovative methods for biomass valorisation for the past decade, specifically petroleum-independent fuel and plastics resin production. It's proprietary technology represents today's most economical and advanced manufacturing process for plastic raw materials, ethanol and bio-diesel, allowing production at cost savings of up to 40% when compared to current production methods.
Allegro Biodiesel Corporation (OTCBB: ABDS) is a producer and distributor of biodiesel fuel. The Company began production and sales in April 2006, as the first operational producer of biodiesel in Louisiana. The biodiesel fuel production facility is located in Pollock, Louisiana and uses renewable agricultural-based feedstock (primarily soybean oil) to produce biodiesel. Current production capacity is approximately 12 million gallons of biodiesel per year.
ALL Fuels & Energy Company (Other OTC: AFSE.PK) acquired ALL Energy Company, a development-stage ethanol company organized to operate as an ethanol producer, focusing primarily on the production and sale of ethanol and its co-products. AFSE has adopted the business plan of ALL Energy Company.
Alternative Energy Sources, Inc. (OTCBB: AENS) a development stage company, engages in the construction, ownership, and operation of fuel grade ethanol plants. The company also intends to produce dried distilled grains, which are used in the manufacture of various animal feeds.
Andersons Inc (ANDE) It operates through four segments: Agriculture, Rail, Turf and Specialty, and Retail. Agriculture segment engages in purchasing and merchandising grain, as well as operating grain elevator facilities in Ohio, Michigan, Indiana, and Illinois. Rail segment engages in buying, selling, leasing, rebuilding, and repairing various types of used railcars and rail equipment. Turf and Specialty segment engages in the production and marketing of turf and ornamental plant fertilizer, and control products. Retail segment offers home center products, hardware, home remodeling, lawn and garden products, housewares, automotive products, sporting goods, pet products, bath soft goods, and food products through its stores.
Archer Daniels Midland Company (NYSE:ADM) engages in the procurement, transportation, storing, processing, and merchandising of agricultural commodities and products. The company operates in three segments: Oilseeds Processing, Corn Processing, and Agricultural Services. The Oilseed Processing segment processes oilseeds, such as soybeans, cottonseed, sunflower seeds, canola, peanuts, and flaxseed into vegetable oils and meals for the food and feed industries. The Corn Processing segment engages in wet milling and dry milling corn operations, which produce syrup, starch, glucose, dextrose, and sweeteners. The Agricultural Services segment engages in buying, storing, cleaning, and transporting agricultural commodities, such as oilseeds, corn, wheat, milo, oats and barley, and reselling these commodities to the agricultural processing industry.
Australian Biodiesel Group (ABG) Limited (ASX: ABJ) (Australia) Australian Biodiesel groups technology produces a high quality biodiesel that can be used in numerous ways - as a direct substitute for conventional petro-diesel or as a blended product.
Australian Ethanol Limited (AEX: AAE) (Australia) Manufacture and distribution of fuel ethanol.
AUSTRALIAN RENEWABLE FUELS LIMITED (ASX: ARW) Australian Renewable Fuels Limited is an Australian company currently developing two biodiesel plants, one in Adelaide, South Australia, and another in Picton, Western Australia.
Aventine Renewable Energy, Inc. (AVR) engages in the production, supply, and marketing of ethanol, feed products, and bio-products in the United States. It offers fuel ethanol, corn gluten meal, corn gluten feed, corn condensed distillers solubles, food grade yeast, feed grade yeast, and fermentation grade yeast. The company supplies more than 500 million gallons of the nation's growing ethanol needs.
Better Biodiesel (OTCBB: BBDS) has developed proprietary waterless technology that significantly reduces the costs of biodiesel production and its impact on the environment.
Biofuels Corporation PLC (BFC.L ) (London) The main activity of Biofuels is the large scale production and exploitation of biodiesel and glycerin following the construction and commissioning of the initial plant
Biomaxx Systems Inc. (BMXSF) Seeks to become a leader in the emerging cellulosic biomass-to-ethanol industry. Their mission is to convert biomass that is currently being abandoned or land filled into ethanol and other valuable co-products.
Blue Diamond Ventures, Inc. (OTCPK: BLDV) is an agriculture, bio fuels and commercial development company with operations in Belize and the U.S.
BlueFire Ethanol Inc. (OTCPK: BFRE)is established to deploy the commercially ready, patented, and proven Arkenol Technology Process for the profitable conversion of cellulosic ("Green Waste") waste materials to ethanol, a viable alternative to gasoline.
China Clean Energy Inc. (OTCBB: CCGY) through its wholly-owned subsidiary, Fujian Zhongde Technology Co., Ltd., is engaged in the development, manufacturing, and distribution of biodiesel fuel and specialty chemical products made from renewable resources. Since its inception, the Company has been engaged in the manufacture of high-quality specialty chemical products from renewable resources. Through its research and development efforts, the Company developed a proprietary process for refining biodiesel fuel from waste grease and certain vegetable oils. Using this proprietary process, the China Clean Energy began producing biodiesel in 2005 and commenced selling biodiesel commercially starting in December 2005.
Consolidated Biofuels, Inc. (CSBF) Biodiesel production facilities.
Cosan - ON (CSAN3.SA) (Brazil) One of the world’s largest sugarcane and ethanol producers.
Cropenergies (CE2.DE) (GERMANY) Manufacturer of ethanol.
Diversa Corporation (DVSA) the development of high-performance specialty enzymes derived from bio-diverse environments as well as patented DirectEvolution® technologies. Diversa customizes enzymes for manufacturers within the alternative fuel such as ethanol , industrial, and health and nutrition markets to enable higher throughput, lower costs, and improved environmental outcomes.
D1 Oils plc (DOO.L) (London) D1 Oils’ objective is to become a global sustainable, low cost producer of biodiesel and supplier of crude vegetable oil and to achieve and maintain low production costs and consistent, high volume, quality output. The Group’s strategy is to control and manage its operations on a regional basis by securing plantation rights and establishing refinery operations.
Dyadic International, Inc. (AMEX: DIL) engages in the development and distribution of specialty enzymes and related products for sale to the textile, food and feed, starch, pulp and paper, and other industries in the United States of America, Hong Kong, Poland, and the Netherlands. The company focuses on functional proteomics through the discovery, development, and manufacturing of novel products, including enzymes and proteins, derived from the genes of complex living organisms. Using its proprietary platform technologies for gene discovery and gene expression, Dyadic develops additional biological products, such as proteins, enzymes, polypeptides, and small molecules for use by itself and for applications in large segments of the agricultural, industrial, chemical, and pharmaceutical industries.
Earth Biofuels Inc (OTCBB: EBOF) engages in the production, distribution, and retail of alternative fuels, with a focus on biodiesel fuel, in the United States. It produces pure biodiesel fuel (B100) through the utilization of vegetable oils, such as soy and canola oil as raw material. The company distributes petroleum/biodiesel blended fuel, such as B20 through wholesale distributors and direct retail sales.
Environmental Power Corporation (OTCBB: EPG) through its subsidiaries, engages in the development, ownership, and operation of renewable energy production facilities. It develops and owns noncommodity, renewable, and alternative energy facilities that produces biofuels or electricity by utilizing fuel derived from its agricultural waste management processes or alternative fuel sources, such as waste coal.
The EnviTec Biogas AG ( Germany ) is one of the leading enterprises of the biogas industry in Germany. Next to tank construction, its main focuses are planning, financing, realisation and putting into operation of biogas plants. Top priority is given to quality and safety when planning and realising the plants and last but not least they are achieved by the CE labeling.
EOP Biodiesel AG (E2B.DE) (Germany) Biodiesel manufacturer.
Ethanex Energy, Inc. (OTCBB: EHNX) is an alternative energy company whose mission is to become the industry's low-cost producer. The company expects to achieve this industry position through the application of next-generation feedstock technologies and use of alternative energy sources. Ethanex Energy is currently developing three ethanol production facilities located in the mid-west, with a combined production capacity of approximately 300 million gallons of ethanol per year.
Green Plains Renewable Energy, Inc. (Nasdaq: GPRE) a development stage company, plans to produce ethanol and animal feed products in southwestern Iowa.
GS CleanTech Corporation (OTCBB: GSCT) provides various environmental management services to industrial organizations in the United States. The company’s environmental services include transportation, distribution, recycling, and disposal services specific to the materials and processes of its clients for a range of industrial wastes; and field services, such as remedial, industrial cleaning, and other related services.
Imperial Petroleum, Inc.(OTCBB: IPMN) operates as an energy and mineral mining company in the United States. The company, through its subsidiaries, engages in the production and exploration of crude oil and natural gas, as well as in the mineral mining, with a focus on gold mining.
H2Diesel (OTCBB: HTWO ) is a development stage company that holds an exclusive license for North America, Central America and the Caribbean to proprietary technology for the manufacture of an alternative biofuel from domestically produced vegetable oils that is intended to be marketed as a heating fuel, fuel for power generation, or alternatively, as a new class of biofuel or fuel additive.
International Fuel Technology, Inc. (OTCBB: IFUE) IFT is actively engaged in discussions with the bio-diesel production industry and fuel additive companies regarding the specific benefits that IFT's additive technology brings to bio-diesel fuel blends.
Intrepid Technology and Resources, Inc.(OTCBB: IESV) operate as a biofuels renewable and alternative energy development company in the United States. It specializes in developing, constructing, operating, and owning or co-owning a portfolio of projects in the biofuels production area of the renewable energy sector. The company primarily undertakes the construction and operation of biodiesel and ethanol production facilities. Intrepid also produces and distributes biofuels, with a primary focus on biogas.
Kreido Biofuels (OTCBB:KRBF) - provides renewable energy through its proprietary process intensification technology - the STT® system. Kreido Biofuels has also established collaborations with university and government laboratories, such as the US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA), to gain a leading position in the development of advanced chemical processes.
Lignol Innovations Ltd. (LEC:TSX.V) is a wholly owned subsidiary of Lignol Energy Corporation. Lignol is a Canadian company undertaking the development of biorefineries for the production of fuelgrade ethanol and other biochemical co-products from cellulosic biomass feedstocks. Lignol’s modified solvent based pre-treatment technology, originally developed by a former affiliate of General Electric (GE), and then further developed and commercialized for wood-pulp applications by a subsidiary of Repap Enterprises Inc., facilitates the rapid, high-yield conversion of cellulose to ethanol and the production of value-added biochemical co-products, including lignin. Lignol is executing on its development plan with several major Canadian companies in a strategic partnership to further develop and integrate the core technologies on a commercial scale.
MGP Ingredients, Inc.(NASDAQ: MGPI) produces certain ingredients and distillery products. Its ingredients consists of specialty ingredients, including specialty wheat starches and proteins; commodity ingredients, including commodity wheat starches and vital wheat gluten; and mill feeds. MGPI’s Terratek™ line of starch- and protein-based polymbers has been developed to address the need for eco-friendly, biobased goods provides an excellent alternative to petroleum-based polymers.
Mission Biofuels Limited (ASX: MBT) (Australia) Biodiesel refinery investment.
Naturel Fuel Limited (NFL.AX) (Australia) Manufacturer of biodiesel and glycerin from renewable sources.
NewGen Technologies, Inc. (NWGN.OB) With subsidiary ReFuel America is focused on providing advanced fuels with increased performance and decreased harmful emissions for all petroleum engine use.
Nova Biosource Fuels, Inc. (OTCBB:NVBF) is an energy company in the business of synthesizing and distributing renewable fuel products and related co-products. Nova is now focused on the construction and operation of two to four biodiesel refineries, with production capacity of between 120 to 240 million gallons of biodiesel fuel on an annual basis. Nova's business strategy for the next three years includes the construction of up to seven biodiesel refineries with production capacities ranging from 20 to 60 million gallons each per year. All of Nova's refineries will use its proprietary, patented process technology, which enables the use of a broader range of lower cost feedstocks.
O2Diesel Corporation (AMEX: OTD) a development stage company, offers a fuel additive product that enables distillate liquid transportation fuels to burn cleaner by facilitating the addition of ethanol as an oxygenate to these fuels. The company offers O2D05 that stabilizes and enhances the blending of fuel grade ethanol with diesel fuel. Its customers include urban truck and delivery fleets, municipal transit authorities, port logistical equipment, construction equipment, mobile or stationary power generators, railroads, and military vehicles, as well as municipal, state, and federal governments.
Pacific Ethanol, Inc. (NASDAQ: PEIX) engages in the development, production, and marketing of renewable fuels in the western United States. Pacific Ethanol is constructing an ethanol production facility in Madera County, California, as well as developing four additional plants on the West Coast. Kinergy Marketing, LLC, the company’s wholly owned subsidiary, is a West Coast based marketer of ethanol. In addition, the company engages in the identification and development of other renewable fuel technologies, such as cellulose-based ethanol production and bio-diesel.
Panda Ethanol Inc. (OTCBB:PDAE) currently developing fuel ethanol refineries and biomass facilities in the United States. Panda Ethanol's founder is Panda Energy International Inc., a privately-held company which has built more than 9,000 MW of electric generation capacity at a cost of $5 billion. In 2005, Newsweek magazine named a Panda company as one of the 10 most eco-friendly companies in America. In 2007, Project Finance Magazine awarded Panda "North American Ethanol Deal of the Year" for the company's financing of its Hereford facility.
Pure Biofuels - (OTCBB: PBOF) in Latin America's rapidly emerging biofuels industry. Pure Biofuels' flagship project, the Callao Port biodiesel refinery near Lima, Peru, is scheduled to commence production in August 2007. The Callao Port refinery will process biodiesel from crude palm oil feedstock. Pure Biofuels has secured memorandums of understanding with local fuel distributors for all of Callao Port's annual biodiesel production.
Renova Energy plc (RVA.L) (London) Producer, marketer and distributor of ethanol.
Rentech Inc. (AMEX: RTK) engages in the development and licensing of technology and projects to transform underutilized hydrocarbon resources into alternative fuels and clean chemicals. It develops process through its Fischer Tropsch Gas-To-Liquids technology, which converts synthesis gas into liquid hydrocarbon products, such as diesel fuel, aviation fuel, naphtha, and other chemicals. The company operates in two segments, Alternative Fuels, and Oil and Gas Field Services. The Alternative Fuels segment develops and markets processes for conversion of carbon-bearing solids or gases into valuable liquid hydrocarbons. The Oil and Gas Field Services segment provides logging services in the progress of drilling operations for the oil and gas industry.
Schmack Biogas (SKBGF.PK) (GERMANY) Manufacturer of biogas installations.
Southridge Enterprises (otcbb:SORD) is a renewable energy company with a mission to become the ethanol producer of choice in the southeastern region of the United States. The Company is focusing its efforts in an area which offers abundant supplies of corn, superior transportation infrastructure and expedited permitting processes. The Company is actively acquiring and developing ethanol production facilities with a planned capacity of 60 million gallons per year and anticipates start-up of the first phase of these operations in 2007. Southridge Enterprises is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.
Syngas International (OTCBB: SYNI) is an emerging leader in the development and marketing of low-cost alternate fuels worldwide. Announced May 3, 2006 that it has initiated researching the possibilities of using gases produced from its M2 and PyStR processes to make synthetic liquid bio fuels. The first two liquid bio fuels under investigation are ethanol and methanol due to the rapidly increasing demand for fuels in North America.
Texcom Resources (TEXC.PK) Biodiesel and oilfield waste related products.
Universal Energy Group's (TSX: UEG) sells electricity and natural gas in Ontario and natural gas in British Columbia (through its subsidiary Universal Energy Corporation) to residential, small to mid-size commercial and small industrial customers and sells natural gas in Michigan (through its subsidiary Universal Gas & Electric Corporation) to residential, small to mid-size commercial and small industrial customers. Universal Energy Group (through its subsidiary TGF) is constructing an ethanol facility near Belle Plaine, Saskatchewan that is designed to produce approximately 150 million litres of ethanol annually
U.S. Sustainable Energy: (OTCPK: USSE) holds patent pending technology for a new breakthrough biofuel and carbon based fertilizer. USSEC has successfully demonstrated the most cost effective method of producing biofuel estimated at $.50/gallon according to exhaustive studies and independent Lab confirmation. The company has developed the process, units and catalyst that will transform agricultural biomass into biofuel and fertilizer.
US BioEnergy Corporation (NASDAQ:USBE) produces and markets ethanol and distillers grains in the United States. It also provides facilities management, grain procurement, and risk consulting services to other ethanol producers. The company sells ethanol to refining and marketing companies, and sells distillers grains to livestock operators and marketing companies.
VeraSun Energy Corp (NYSE: VSE) engages in the production and sale of ethanol and its co-products principally in the United States. Ethanol is primarily used as a blend component in the gasoline fuel market. The company also produces and sells ethanol co-products, which include dried distillers grain with solubles, a animal feed sold primarily as an ingredient in beef and dairy cattle rations to agricultural customers; wet distillers grains with solubles, a livestock feed sold as wet feed to agricultural customers; and corn oil. It's the second-largest U.S. producer, next to Archer Daniels Midland Co. producing 230 million gallons of corn-based ethanol a year.
Verbio Vgt Bioenerg (VBK.DE) (Germany) Manufacture and distribute biofuels.
Xethanol Corporation (AMEX: XNL) engages in the production and marketing of ethanol and its co-products in the United States. Ethanol, a clean burning, renewable fuel, is used as a primary gasoline additive. The company also intends to optimize the use of biomass in the renewable energy field and convert biomass that is being abandoned or land filled into ethanol, or other valuable co-products.
Biomass Investments
DynaMotive Energy Systems Corporation (OTCBB: DYMTF) is an energy systems company focused on the development of innovative energy solutions based on its patented fast pyrolysis system. Through the application of fast pyrolysis, Dynamotive unlocks the natural energy found in the world's abundant organic resources normally discarded by the agricultural and forest industries. Dynamotive's technology economically converts biomass into a renewable, environmentally friendly fuel. Dynamotive has successfully demonstrated conversion of these residues into fuel known as BioOil, as well as char.
Green Energy Corp. (OTCPK: GEYC) patented gasification technology converts biomass to a synthetic gas that can be burned to generate electricity, reformed to produce ethanol or used to feed solid oxide fuel cell. Biomass can be defined as material that is derived from living or recently living plant or animal organisms.
Helius Energy (HEGY: London Stock Exchange) Helius Group was established to install and operate biomass fired renewable electricity generation plants designed to meet the growing need for reliable power and support the essential move away from fossil fuels both for economic and environmental reasons, whilst taking advantage of renewable energy legislation.
Laidlaw Energy Group (OTCPK: LLEG) is engaged in the development of independent power plants that generate electricity from renewable resources. LLEG's mission is to build and manage a profitable portfolio of renewable energy facilities through development, acquisition, conversion of existing facilities and through partnering with manufactures that have significant electric and thermal needs. For more information on LLEG, please visit our website at NYENRG.com.
Methanex Corporation (NASDAQ: MEOH)engages in the production, marketing, supply, and distribution of methanol. It owns and operates methanol production facilities, as well as sources methanol produced by others. The company serves chemical and petrochemical producers in North America, Asia Pacific, and Europe, as well as in Latin America.
Nathaniel Energy Corp. (NECX.OB) Nathaniel Energy Corporation operates as a hydrocarbon-based waste-to-energy company. It provides energy alternative to fossil fuels worldwide. The company offers various solutions that divert waste from landfills to fossil fuels in municipalities and industries. It develops environmentally safe energy infrastructures that produce electricity, heat, and steam. The company focuses on its proprietary patented technology, the Thermal Gasifier, which is a 2-stage gasification system designed to convert industrial and commercial waste, biomass, waste tires, and other hydrocarbon-based materials into economical thermal and electrical energy. It also involves in tire fuel processing and provides an alternative fuel supply from waste tires.
Peat Resources Limited (TSX:PET.V) Peat Resources Limited was formed to explore, develop, produce and market peat fuel. The Company's mission is to supply high quality peat fuel on a profitable and sustainable basis to customers requiring economic and environmentally acceptable energy sources. Large, continuing increases in energy prices, increased public sensitivity to environmental issues, as well as the Ontario provincial government's commitment to eliminate the burning of coal for power generation, have enhanced opportunities for the use of peat fuel in electricity generating stations and other facilities.
W2 Energy Inc (OTCPK: WWEN) develops renewable energy technologies and applies it to new generation electrical power systems. Specifically, W2 Energy Inc. produces green power utilizing its core-patented technologies to produce green power generating and clean transportation fuel plants utilizing bio-mass and GTL technologies. W2 Energy Inc. has seasoned management and cutting edge technology. W2 Energy Inc. owns a large technology portfolio of patents and know-how that has been extensively validated and ready for commercial production.
Warren & Baerg Manufacturing, Inc. "Complete Cubing Systems" take clean nonrecycleable papers, cardboards and plastics, grind them to a suitable size and then densify them into a clean burning "fuel cube" that can be blended in with most other fuels.
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