Companies in North America
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Canada
- Canadian Bioenergy: An integrated biodiesel company in Canada. The company is active in:
- Pre-engineering and final feasibility for a 114 million litre per year (30 MMGY) biodiesel production facility adjacent to Bunge Canada's oilseed crushing plant in Sturgeon County, Alberta (near Edmonton).
- Strategic partnering with oilseed growers and processors to secure long term supply of feedstocks for our biodiesel production plants.
- Regional distribution and sales of biodiesel, and blended diesel-biodiesel products, from our terminal hubs in Vancouver, BC and Calgary, AB.
- Expansion of our regional distribution and sales network of biodiesel products.
- Partnering with petroleum distributors to make biodiesel widely available in western Canada through distribution and offtake agreements.
- Dynamotive Uses pyrolysis technology to turn dry waste biomass and energy crops into BioOil for power and heat generation.
- China looks at BioOil technology to reduce oil imports 13 December 2006 from Biofuel Review. "China’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC) has come out in favor of the introduction of Dynamotive’s BioOil technology to reduce the nation’s growing oil imports.
- Eco-tec- among its other products, provides gasification technologies.
- Iogen Corporation - Iogen has developed technology for cellulosic ethanol production.
- Lignol Energy Corporation - A western Canadian company, Lignol plans to build biorefineries for ethanol and co-products produced from Canadian forests. The Company has acquired and modified a solvent based pre-treatment technology originally developed by a subsidiary of General Electric (“GE”). Lignol also acquired the original GE pilot plant that is now being integrated with recently developed process capabilities to convert cellulose to ethanol.
- Sunopta- Built the first cellulosic ethanol plant 20 years ago, in France. In June 2006, SunOpta said it would build the first cellulosic ethanol plant in China. Recently sold a biomass-to-ethanol system to Celunol in what will likely be the first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant in the United States.
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United States
A comprehensive list of companies active in the production of ethanol can be found on the website of the Renewable Fuels Association. The RFA website also provides a list of ethanol plants in the United States. See also company information on the pages for the various states.
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A-M
- Amelot Holdings Inc. - "A diversified holding company focused on Alternative Energy and Bio-fuels"
- Amyris Biotech - A biotechnology company that is engineering microbes to create new types of biofuels, including an ethanol-substitute and a next-generation biodiesel.
- American Renewable Fuels Inc. - a Biodiesel company that is building a plant with a 75 mil. gallons/yr capacity using animal fat as a feedstock[1]. It is a subsidiary of Australian Renewable fuels.
- Archer Daniels Midland (ADM)
- Aventine Renewable Energy
- BlueFire Ethanol, Inc.
- Broin Companies. - A South-Dakota based Ethanol producer that is opening the first commercial sized cellulosic-ethanol plant in the US in Iowa.
- BRI Energy - Developed a process that uses gasification, fermentation and distillation to produce ethanol and electricity from a wide array of carbon-based wastes.
- BlueFire - Plans to use the Arkenol Technology Process (which has been used in Izumi, Japan since 2002) for creating cellulosic ethanol.
- Bunge
- C3 Bioenergy - Has developed a process to produce biopropane, propylene and hydrogen from biomass.
- Cargill
- Celunol - A cellulosic ethanol company with a pilot plant in Louisiana. They have also licensed their technology to Marubeni Corporation, who have a pilot plant in Osaka, Japan.
- Note: Diversa and Celunol merged to create Verenium (see below).
- Ceres Inc. - Privately-held plant biotech company utilizing genomics technologies to develop energy crops, such as switchgrass, for cellulosic ethanol.
- Cilion - formed by Khosla Ventures and Western Milling.
- Western Milling and Khosla Ventures Join Forces to Form Cilion (Press Release)
- The press release noted that "Cilion will operate modular, standardized 55 million gallons per year ethanol plants." Also, "these plants will be cheaper and greener than standard corn-to-ethanol plants, substantially reducing the need for fossil fuels in ethanol production. Cilion plans to have 8 plant units in production by 2008 for a total of 440 million gallons per year capacity."[2]
- Western Milling and Khosla Ventures Join Forces to Form Cilion (Press Release)
- Changing World Technology, inc.
- Chevron Energy Solutions - "Provides public institutions and businesses with environmentally sound projects that increase energy efficiency and reduce energy costs" including solar photovoltaics, fuel cells, biomass and other systems.
- Colusa Biomass Energy Corporation - Is building a factory to make cellulosic ethanol from rice straw, which will be commissioned in 2007.
- Diversa - Partnering with Dupont and researching multiple enzyme "cocktails" to break down cellulosic biomass. Also looking for enzymes in the guts of termites in an attempt to capitalize on the insect's ability to convert wood to energy.
- Note: Diversa and Celunol merged to create Verenium (see below).
- Dyadic - Spent over a decade of R&D in the design and development of enzymes for the increasingly efficient extraction of sugars from [[biomass]. In 2006 Q4, a partnership was announced with Abengoa.
- E3 Biofuels
- E3 BioFuels to Launch First Closed-Loop Ethanol Plant Eliminating the Need for Fossil Fuels in Ethanol The first ever closed-loop ethanol plant will begin production in December 2006 at Mead, Nebraska. The closed-loop system for distilling commercial quantities of ethanol uses methane gas, recaptured from cow manure from an attached feed-lot, to power the plant. 40% of the cow's feed will be wet distillers grains, a by-product of ethanol production.
- Energy Alternative Solutions Inc. - EAS is building a biodiesel plant using waste vegetable oil and restaurant tallow as a feedstock in central California.
- Eprida
- Fram Renewable Fuels - Based in Savannah, Georgia, Fram has a wood pellet plant, Appling County Pellets, capable of producing 130,000 tons per year.
- Genahol - Has plans to open cellulosic ethanol plants in Long Beach, CA, Chandler, AZ, Columbus, OH, and Orville, OH.
- GreenFuel Technologies
- Green Star Products Inc. - A holding company with investments in various ethanol and biodiesel producers. They are building demonstration algae-to-biodiesel facilities.
- GS AgriFuels - Produces biodiesel as well as does biomass gasification to produce ethanol and synfuels.
- Hawkeye Holdings
- Imperium Renewables - A biodiesel manufacturer in Washington, which built and operates the largest biodiesel plant in the U.S., Imperium Grays Harbor (IGH). IGH is a 100 million gallons/year facility on the coast of Washington State. Imperium's technology produces ASTM and EN spec biodiesel from a variety of feedstocks. Advanced feedstock development and sustainability are at the forefront of Imperium's efforts.
- Khosla Ventures (Menlo Park, California)
- LS9. A San Francisco, California based company using synthetic biology to engineer microorganisms to produce "renewable petroleum"".
- Mascoma - With a new CTO who spent over 10 years with SunOpta, Mascoma is developing bio and process technology for cost-effective conversion of cellulosic biomass. Khosla Ventures is a Mascoma investor.
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- Novozymes - Developing enzymes that can convert cellulose into simple sugars, for fermentation into fuel ethanol. Has had collaboration/partnerships with Abengoa and Broin.
- Pacific Biodiesel produces and markets biodiesel, and also constructs and operates biodiesel plants.
- Pacific Ethanol
- Parsons & Whittemore Enterprises (biodiesel)
- Perihelion Global Is building a $40,000,000 BioFuel refinery in Opp, Alabama, which will produce approximately 40 million gallons of biodiesel from peanuts.
- Petrosun Incorporated - a diversified energy company dealing with both traditional fossil fuels and renewable energy resources, including algae biodiesel, through their subsidiary, Algae Biofuels.
- Prometheus Energy - Prometheus Energy captures biogas from waste or low-quality sources such as landfills, stranded gas wells, wastewater treatment facilities, agricultural operations and coalbed methane . They then liquify the gas so it can be used as transportation fuel.
- Pure Energy - Developed a two-stage dilute acid hydrolysis technology process which will be used in the forthcoming Green Star Products, Inc projects.
- Range Fuels - The Colorado based company, formerly known as Kergy and funded by Khosla Ventures, claims it can produce more cellulosic ethanol for a given amount of energy expended than is possible with any other competing process. They also use a modular design, which allows processing to occur close to the source of biomass and be easily scaled-up. They are building a biomass-to-liquids plant in Georgia, which will primarily use wood as a feedstock.
- Solix Biofuels - Makes algae photo-bioreactors that capture CO2 from power plants to produce biodiesel.
- SomoaFiber Inc. - A company that is looking to commercialize Gynerium Saggitattum, a fast growing tropical grass, and use it to produce pyrolysis oil.
- Southridge Ethanol Inc.. Ethanol producing company based in Dallas, Texas with plants in development in the Southern United States and Central America.
- US Sustainable Energy Corporation
- VeraSun Energy
- Xethanol - Is building ethanol plants close to major urban markets, "using locally available raw materials."
- Xethanol Announces New Venture to Produce Ethanol from Waste Citrus Peels in Florida 13 December 2006 from Businesswire.
- XL Biorefinery - A new generation biorefinery combines a dairy operation with a bioufels plant and fractionation mill to produce renewable biofuels, quality animal feeds, and milk products. They currently use corn as a feedstock but are developing an algae to biofuels component.
- Value Trading Solutions, LLC - Bringing best-in-practice risk management (futures, hedging, options), optimization, and trading solutions to ethanol and biodiesel manufacturer's. Our methodology, developed in the oil and chemical markets, can help businesses improve sales realizations, reduce feedstock costs, maximize margins, capture value from market volatility, and stabilize cash flow.
- Verenium Corporation - developer of cellulosic ethanol and enzyme products. Created through the merger of Diversa and Celunol (see above).
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