Posts Tagged ‘algae’
3 February 2012
US biotech company OriginOil has signed a strategic agreement with Aquaviridis to implement an algae production roll-out at a facility in Mexicali, north-west Mexico, owned by Aquaviridis.
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23 January 2012
An algae-to-oil innovator told NewNet that it will look to close $20m in equity funding over the coming days to finance its activities in China
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9 January 2012
An Australian biodiesel company is looking to raise $100m before carrying out an initial public offering.
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20 September 2011
OriginOil has announced it will begin to work with the US Department of Energy to develop standards for converting biomass, including algae, into biofuels and other products.
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25 July 2011
Algae technology developer OriginOil told NewNet the next step in the company’s global expansion requires investment from institutional investors, and this has become the key driver in its move to a senior US securities exchange.
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22 June 2011
Algae-based biotechnology developer OriginOil has announced its intention to up-list its shares to a senior US securities exchange.
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17 June 2011
A stark warning has come from a leading research university that commercial development of algae-derived bioenergy may still be 15 years away.
To combat this lengthy development chain, researchers at Dutch university Wageningen have opened a new centre dedicated to the advancement of algae fuels. The Algae PARC has been established to create a link between taking the production technology from the lab to a more industrial setting.
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24 May 2011
Algae technology developer Origin Oil has received a firm order for its extraction technology from carbon dioxide waste management company MBD Energy.
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13 April 2011
Origin Oil, a US-based technology developer that aims to market algae as a viable competitor to petroleum, has signed a deal with World Water Works to distribute its dewatering and extraction systems to its global customer base.
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8 April 2011
Hydrogen technology developer SolarVest BioEnergy has raised $75,000 in a non-brokered private share placement, with investors buying 300,000 shares at $0.25 per share.
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15 February 2011
Algal fuel developer OriginOil is to take part in a pilot-scale project funded by the Mexican government to demonstrate industrial algae production.
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19 January 2011
The Dutch government has awarded local engineering consultancy DHV grants for three water treatment projects in South Africa, Poland and Vietnam, under the Netherlands’ Partners for Water programme.
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12 January 2011
French cleantech start-up Fermentalg has raised €5.3m in venture capital funding to allow the company to advance its microalgae technology, NewNet has learned.
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5 January 2011
With liquid fuel accounting for approximately two-thirds of global energy demand and question marks surrounding the short-term viability of many electric vehicles, biofuels look set to provide important alternatives to incumbent sources of fuel for several decades.
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8 December 2010
Algal biofuel company Aquatic Energy has appointed two senior energy executives, C Maury Devine and Robert Zulandi, to its board of directors.
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3 December 2010
OriginOil, a technology developer that transforms algae into oil, has been selected to help build an advanced algae centre devoted to the commercialisation of the technology in New Mexico.
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29 June 2010
The US Department of Energy (DOE) will invest up to $24m into three research groups to tackle key challenges in the commercialisation of algae-based biofuels.
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5 March 2010
Industry group the Algal Biomass Organization (ABO) has urged Congress and Senate Finance Committee Chairman Max Baucus and Ranking Member Charles Grassley to adopt an amendment to ensure algae-based fuels receive the financial and regulatory benefits currently afforded to other advanced biofuel feedstocks. The adoption of this amendment will be a significant step in creating new jobs, increasing energy security and reducing greenhouse gas emissions, the group said.
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25 January 2010
Massachusetts, US-based renewable energy company Bodega Algae and Maine-centred Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences have received a $150,000 six-month Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) grant from the National Science Foundation to develop and test a prototype for growing high concentrations of algae for use as biofuel.
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25 January 2010
The US trade association for the algae industry, the Algal Biomass Organisation (ABO) has challenged the conclusions of a report published in Environmental Science and Technology that claims conventional crops have lower environmental impacts than algae in energy use, greenhouse gas emissions and water.
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