Investing in alternative fuels is not only good for the environment, it's a smart move for
our company as biofuels have the potential to hedge against future oil price volatility and carbon regulations.
Not exact matches
Today a raft of young «cleantech»
companies is emerging to bring a wide range of green concepts to market in fields such
as biofuels, solar, wind, biomass, tidal power generation, conservation and many other categories.
GEX holds a wide spectrum of
companies that earn at least 1/2 their revenues from the broader renewable energy industry, which includes solar, wind,
biofuel and geothermal players,
as well
as companies focused on energy efficiency.
ICLN holds a portfolio of «clean energy»
companies, which it defines
as those involved in the
biofuels, ethanol, geothermal, hydroelectric, solar and wind industries.
But when oil
companies (and governments) talk about oil supply, they include all sorts of things that can not be sold
as oil on the world market including
biofuels, refinery gains and natural gas plant liquids
as well
as lease condensate.
Oxford
biofuels firm teams up with Butylfuel,
as offset
company Carbon Retirement partners with Palmetto Climate and Sandbag
Government agencies such
as the Energy Department and the EPA are partnering with
companies to develop low - sulfur diesel and
biofuels.
Biofuel Shell is particularly interested in
biofuels, especially algae,
as is ExxonMobil, which last year invested $ 600 million in Craig Venter's
company Synthetic Genomics.
One airline
company is experimenting with new
biofuels for airplanes (biodiesel won't work
as it freezes at altitude).
Oxford
biofuels firm teams up with Butylfuel,
as offset
company Carbon Retirement partners with Palmetto Climate and Sandbag
He resigned abruptly
as chairman of Aim - listed
biofuels group D1 Oils in March, but his investment
company Principle Capital retains a 27.5 % holding and has been pressing the board to sell the business.
Companies that rely on producing
biofuels and / or synthetic hydrocarbon fuels
as a pathway to carbon removal will face increasing economic challenges with low oil prices.
Over forty employees at Qteros, a Marlborough, MA - based
biofuels company, are expected to plant trees
as part of the International Day of Climate Action, October 24, 2009.
Some start - up
companies are abandoning
biofuels and are instead using the same processes to make higher - margin chemicals for products such
as plastics or cosmetics.
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As a result,» Climatewire explains, «obligated parties — oil
companies required to show EPA that they blend
biofuels in their fuel supply — won't need to provide information on their compliance.
He said that Essent Trading, a Dutch energy trading
company owned by the German utility RWE, certified the pellets
as meeting European Union standards for solid
biofuels.
Dr. Chichilnisky is CEO and Co-Founder of Global Thermostat, (www.Globalthermostat.com) a
company that has created a «Carbon Negative Technology» ™ that captures CO2 from air and transforms it into profitable assets such
as biofuels, food, beverages and enhanced oil recovery.
Re 154: Biopact appears to be a website run by industry (Equator Energies, a
biofuel consultancy
company), which poses
as a citizens» group (see: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/biofuelwatch/message/267).
«Rothstein's tentacles extended into nearly 100 corporations and businesses, according to federal prosecutors, from a California software
company to a Pembroke Pines night club,
as well
as equity interests in two banks, a chain of fancy restaurants, a luxury watch business, a mortgage
company and an alternative
biofuel company.»