Although CWT currently has a supply agreement with Butterball for animal and food processing waste, the turkey company is now looking to sell excess fat and skin to
other biofuel companies.
Not exact matches
While many
biofuel companies have tried and failed to sell jet fuel in large quantities, Fulcrum BioEnergy has some support that
other haven't had.
Icahn owns an 82 % stake in CVR Energy, which along with
other refining
companies, has called for changes to the Renewable Fuel Program to shift the burden of blending
biofuels into gasoline away from refiners and further down stream to marketers.
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.
There are
other people who have talked about changing microalgae — green algae that floats in the water — into advanced
biofuel, but [using] seaweed is unique,» said DuPont's Nathan Danielson, a program manager who oversaw the
companies» DOE grant application.
To help solve this problem, the Carbon War Room has launched RenewableJetFuels.org, which ranks all
biofuel companies on sustainability, among
other criteria.
Historically, commercial
companies have outspent universities and the federal government at least 10 - to - 1 in research of algae fuels, an inverse pattern compared with investment for
other forms of
biofuels.
Today,
companies like KiOR, Virent, and many
others are moving forward with the next generation of
biofuels.
The two
companies will combine their proprietary technologies to jointly develop projects for the production of
biofuels in
other countries.
Last year, it signed agreements with six
companies, including one in Brazil, and decided to drop its
other renewable efforts to focus solely on
biofuels.
Although some have acquired modest solar businesses and
others have dabbled in
biofuels, the expenditures for these lower - carbon sources are often less than 3 % of
company budgets.
A U.K. publishing
company used data from EPI and
other sources to produce a global wall chart showing a variety of information on
biofuels.
Enzyme - producer Novozymes and cellulosic ethanol
company Lignol Energy Corporation signed a research and development agreement to make
biofuel from wood chips and
other forestry residues.