by Jim Lane (Biofuels Digest) … “This year, the voters went global in picking four companies out of the top 10 founded outside the United States,” said Biofuels Digest editor and publisher Jim Lane. “Feedstocks and intermediates dfid particularly well this year — algae, jatropha, renewable sugars. In addition, companies that did well have demonstrated financial strength as well as technological differentiation.
Among the Hot 50, 38 were US-based companies and 12 were from other countries. 20 are active in cellulosic biofuuels development (up from 17 last year), 12 utilize algae, advanced yeasts or cyanobacteria in their microbial energy solutions (up from nine last year), and 15 are producing “drop-in” renewable biofuels such as biobutanol, renewable diesel, green gasoline and renewable jet fuel (up from 14).
New companies in the list this year are: GranBio (#9), CoolPlanet (#16), Sweetwater Energy (#27), Propel Fuels (#29), American Process #37), BASF (#40), Midori Renewables (#47) and Cellana (#49).
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The 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy for 2013-14 are:
1. Solazyme
2. LanzaTech
3. KiOR
4. Sapphire Energy
5. Gevo
6. Beta Renewables
7. POET
8. INEOS Bio
9. GranBio
10. DSM
11. DuPont Industrial Biosciences
12. Novozymes
13. Abengoa Bioenergy
14. Enerkem
15. Amyris
16. CoolPlanet Energy Systems
17. Joule Unlimited
18. Neste Oil
19. Virent
20. Ceres
21. Renewable Energy Group
22. Butamax
23. Mascoma
24. Honeywell’s UOP
25. Algenol
26. BP Biofuels
27. Sweetwater Energy
28. Fulcrum BioEnergy
29. Propel Fuels
30. ZeaChem
31. Waste Management
32. LS9
33. Elevance Renewable Sciences
34. Renmatix
35. OPX Biotechnologies
36. EdeniQ
37. American Process
38. Boeing
39. Fiberight
40. BASF
41. Codexis
42. Valero
43. Cobalt Technologies
44. Cosan
45. SG Biofuels
46. Dyadic
47. Midori Renewables
48. Coskata
49. Cellana
50. Virdia (tie)
50. Iogen (tie) READ MORE