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50 Hottest Book 2010-11 The 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy 2010-2011 Selectors Data Book Including company profiles, industry data and recommendations 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy 2010-11 • Selector Book 1 Copyright © 2010 by James M. Lane All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Convention. This book, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form without permission. An Ascension Book Published by Ascension Publishing, Inc. 801 Brickell Avenue, Suite 900 Miami, FL 33131 First edition: November 2010 Library of Congress Cataloguing-in-Publication Data Lane, James M. 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy Selectors Data Book Guidebook for voters in Biofuels Digest’s annual company ranking. 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy 2010-11 Data Book/James M. Lane.—Ist ed. p. cm. 1. United States—Civilization—1970- 2. United States—Politics and government—2010-2020 I. Title 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy 2010-11 • Selector Book 2 The 2010-11 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy TABLE OF CONTENTS Welcome Letter 4 Instructions for Selectors 5 The Hottest Fuels, Feedstocks and Processing Technologies 6 The 2008-09 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy 8 The 2009-10 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy 9 The Transformative Technology 30 for 2010 10 The Top 100 People in Bioenergy for 2010 14 The Advanced Biofuels Tracking Database: Current Projects 46 Company Profiles 2009-10 Top 50 companies (in order of rank) 70 Other Companies (in alphabetical order) 224 Some 2010-11 eligible companies not profiled 373 Biofuels Digest Recommendations Hot 50 Recommendations and Hotter than Hell lists 377 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy 2010-11 • Selector Book 3 WELCOME! Dear Selector, First of all, thank you for being a selector for this year’s 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy. In this effort, you are joining more than 200 scientists, industry leaders, and journalists in a dozen countries, plus the readers of Biofuels Digest. Holding this 374-page behemoth, you may be wondering what you got yourself into! The information contained in this volume is not required reading. Rather, these company profiles, recommendations, and other materials, are here to assist you. You can use them, or not, as you see fit. The companies themselves supplied a lot of the material in this book — I made an effort to edit out the “promotional material” and strike anything outrageous. If I missed something you think looks goofy, just skip by it. Data is Hottest does not mean “best”, “biggest” or “most significant” – it means, in your judgment, the companies that best combine the qualities of visibility and credibility, and have the most reasonable potential to reach oil parity pricing and scale. I hope you find the process enjoyable and educational throughout this month as you deliberate, and this Data Book will be of value to you throughout the year ahead. With regards, Jim Lane Editor & Publisher Biofuels Digest November 2010 Key Biscayne, FL 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy 2010-11 • Selector Book 4 INSTRUX 1. With this PDF, you will have received a Hot 50 ballot in .doc format. 2. Please return your ballot by email to [email protected], no later than 5pm EST, November 30, 2010. 3. You do not have to choose a complete Hot 50 – just as many as you wish. 4. You may select from any companies actively formed and in the bioenergy sector as of November 1, 2010 – whether or not that company appears somewhere in this selector book or not. 5. Please make your selections in rank order – the Hotest Company at #1, and thence down to #50 or wherever you decide to stop. Your #1 choice will receive 50 points, #2 will receive 49...and so on until 1 point is given to your #50 choice. 7. You are allowed to vote for your own company, if you work for one that is eligible — or for a company you have evaluated, consulted for, or invested in. 8. Please do not reveal your choices until the Hot 50 is officially announced on December 7, 2010 at 9am EST. I will provide you a copy of the Hot 50 list on December 6, 2010 2009 — but that information is under struct embargo and not for release until 9am EST on December 7th. 9. Please note that if a company is missing from the selector book, that simply means that their staff did not submit a profile in time. Thank you for your participation! 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy 2010-11 • Selector Book 5 HOT FUELS, FEEDSTOCKS AND TECHNOLOGIES The following data is from an October 2010 Biofuels Digest reader survey. 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy 2010-11 • Selector Book 6 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy 2010-11 • Selector Book 7 THE 2009-10 50 HOTTEST COMPANIES IN BIOENERGY 1. Solazyme 26. Genencor 2. POET 27. Shell 3. Amyris Biotechnologies 28. Ceres 4. BP Biofuels 29. ExxonMobil 5. Sapphire Energy 30. Cobalt Technologies 6. Coskata 7. DuPont Danisco 31. Aurora Algae 8. LS9 32. Joule Biotechnologies 9. Verenium 33. Syngenta 10. Mascoma 34. KL Energy 35. Codexis 11. Novozymes 36. IneosBio 12. UOP Honeywell 37. Renewable Energy Group 13. Gevo 38. Rentech 14. Range Fuels 39. Praj Industries 15. Abengoa Bioenergy 40. Neste Oil 16. PetroAlgae 17. Synthetic Genomics 41. LanzaTech 18. Petrobras 42. OriginOil 19. Bluefire Renewables 43. Choren 20. ZeaChem 44. Solix 45. Chemrec 21. Virent Energy Systems 46. Dynamotive 22. Qteros 47. Terrabon 23. Iogen 48. Fulcrum Bioenergy 24. Algenol 49. SG Biofuels 25. Enerkem 50. Inbicon 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy 2010-11 • Selector Book 8 THE 2008-09 50 HOTTEST COMPANIES IN BIOENERGY 1. Coskata 26. Raven Biofuels 2. Sapphire Energy 27. Gevo 3. Virent Energy Systems 28. St.1 Biofuels Oy 4. POET 29. Primafuel 5. Range Fuels 30. Taurus Energy 6. Solazyme 7. Amyris Biotechnologies 31. Ceres 8. Mascoma 32. Syngenta 9. DuPont Danisco 33. Aurora Biofuels 10. UOP 34. Bionavitas 35. Algenol 11. ZeaChem 36. Verenium 12. Aquaflow Bionomic 37. Simply Green 13. Bluefire Ethanol 38. Carbon Green 14. Novozymes 39. SEKAB 15. Qteros 40. Osage Bioenergy 16. Petrobras 17. Cobalt Biofuels 41. Dynamotive 18. Iogen 42. Sustainable Power 19. Synthetic Genomics 43. ETH Bioenergia 20. Abengoa Energy 44. Choren 45. OriginOil 21. KL Energy 46. Propel Fuels 22. Ineos 47. GEM Biofuels 23. GreenFuel 48. Lake Erie Biofuels 24. Vital Renewable Energy 49. Cavitation Technologies 25. LS9 50. Lotus/Jaguar – Omnivore 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy 2010-11 • Selector Book 9 THE 2010 TRANSFORMATIVE TECHNOLOGY 30 Algenol (MicroAlgae, cyanobacteria, lemna, and plankton platforms) Amyris Biotechnologies (Microbial fuels) BioEnergy International (Renewable chemicals) Butamax (Biobutanol technologies) Ceres (Advanced feedstock technologies) ClearFuels-Rentech (Fischer-Tropsch technologies) Cobalt Technologies (Biobutanol technologies) Coskata (Cellulosic ethanol) DuPont – BioArchitecture Lab (Seaweed – Macroalgae technologies) Dupont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol (Cellulosic ethanol) Energy Allied International, The Seawater Foundation and Global Seawater (Salt-tolerant feedstocks) Ford Motor Company – Bobcat project (Engine technologies) Genencor (Enzyme technologies and platforms) Gevo (Biobutanol technologies) Green Biologics (Biobutanol technologies) Joule Unlimited (Microbial fuels) KL Energy (Cellulosic ethanol) LS9 (Microbial fuels) Mascoma (Cellulosic ethanol/Consolidated Bioprocessing) Masdar Institute of Science and Technology, Boeing, Etihad Airways and UOP Honeywell (Salt-tolerant feedstocks) Mitchell Technology (Catalyzed ionoic impact) Novozymes (Enzyme technologies and platforms) OriginOil (MicroAlgae, cyanobacteria, lemna, and plankton platforms) PetroAlgae (MicroAlgae, cyanobacteria, lemna, and plankton platforms) POET (Cellulosic ethanol) Qteros (Cellulosic ethanol/Consolidated Bioprocessing) 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy 2010-11 • Selector Book 10 Sapphire Energy (MicroAlgae, cyanobacteria, lemna, and plankton platforms) SBI Bioenergy (Biodiesel systems) SES – Seaweed Energy Solutions (Seaweed – Macroalgae technologies) Solazyme (MicroAlgae, cyanobacteria, lemna, and plankton platforms) Verenium (Cellulosic ethanol) Overall, the 30 selected organizations represented 14 of the 18 total categories in the poll. Among categories that did not produce a winner, the Massachusetts Institute of Technology’s butanol-based project led in the Electrofuels category, Iowa State led in the Pyrolysis category, the Solana/British Airways project led in the waste-to-energy category, and UOP led in the Chemical reforming and hydroprocessing category. Close competition between numerous competing technologies within a category in many cases prevented outstanding companies from reaching the Top 30 – notably, fierce competition in the waste-to-energy, pyrolysis and enzyme technology categories. Support for organizations developing microalgae-based technologies was particularly strong with 17.83 percent of readers selecting the category as a whole. One technology, the FORD Bobcat project which developed an ethanol-injection technology capable of increasing fuel economy through use of ethanol (compared to a drop of up to 25 percent, using ethanol in standard engines), was discontinued by its developers. Overall, six of the recipients represented consortia or joint ventures. 21 of the 30 organizations recognized in the Transformative Technologies poll also were recognized in the “50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy” for 2009-10. The leading categories, as recognized by the readers, were: MicroAlgae, cyanobacteria, lemna, and plankton platforms – 17.83% Waste to energy and symbiotic systems – 9.46% Seaweed – Macroalgae technologies – 8.63% 50 Hottest
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