biotechnology

On Wednesday, December 14, representatives from the nation’s biofuels, renewable chemicals and biobased products industries provided written testimony to a U.S.

Massachusetts-based biotechnology company Myriant Technologies has filed a US$125 million initial public offering (IPO).  Myriant represents the eighth biotechnology company to file an IPO in the last 18 months.

The American Society for Testing and Materials (ASTM), an international body that sets global standards, will vote this summer on a new certification that will govern the development of bifoeul for use in passenger airlines. 

Agricultural biotechnology company Ceres, Inc., based in Thousand Oaks, California, filed an Initial Public Offering prospectus with the U.S. regulators Monday planning to raise up to $100 million and to list on NASDAQ under the symbol CERE.

Here's your holiday edition of the Top 10 Renewable Energy News Stories You May Have Missed this Week:

Algae derived biofuel is a potential game-changer, but most players are years away from competing with conventional fuel on price. Viral Genetics [VRAL] and their subsidiary VG Energy believe they may have found a way to dramatically reduce production costs using proprietary technology developed through their novel research on cancer.  

This is Part I of my three part Q & A with Mike Mendez, vice-president of technology at Sapphire Energy. In this part, Mendez talks about his background, the history and mission of Sapphire, how algae is turned into energy, and is goal to domesticate algae.

EnergyBoom’s E•B Biofuel subindex decline of 0.99 percent last week was the best performance among the EnergyBoom clean sector indices. It also beat the leading green ETFs  and all broad market indices except the Dax Index of 30 bluechips trading on the Frankfurt Stock Exchange, which slipped 0.24 percent. 

Here are the Top 10 Renewable Energy News Stories You May Have Missed this Week:

So what’s up with the biofuels sector? Two biofuels companies last week filed unpriced initial public offerings (IPOs) with the Securities and Exchange Commission and a third did the same earlier this summer. A fourth biofuels company completed an IPO in April 2010.