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TribblesThe Trouble with Gribbles

Hype, Scale and warp speed in the development and financing of biofuels

An unlikely organism called the gribble has been generating a fair amount of attention in the popular press this week. The ship rot-inducing worm has been hailed by a UK-based research group for its skill in converting wood cellulose into simple sugars - and, hence, its potential as a micro-organism for consolidated bioprocessing for biofuels.  

The discovery has induced a backlash. Today's media funk appears to be a snide skepticism about the gribble's industrial scalability, and the "hyperbolic press releases" with which bioenergy discoveries are announced.

Sifting through the competing claims regarding "breakthroughs" is part of the fun of covering bioenergy - after all, there are (as of now, I just checked) 19,723 references to the word "Breakthrough" in Google News today, and I am fairly sure that not every one of them offers a cure for cancer, the discovery of the Higgs Boson, or an end to the common cold. 

The trouble with gribbles is not entirely unlike the "Trouble with Tribbles," a Star Trek episode in which the Enterprise is nearly overrun by an exploding population of lovable yet rapidly-reproducing animals. The very fecundity of bioenergy research is inducing skepticism.

Another topic on the minds of writers is the lack of scale - the failure of the advanced biofuels industry to produce 100 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol as called for by the 2010 Renewable Fuel Standard has been attracting an inordinate amount of attention.

More on Tribbles, Gribbles, scale, "where are the 100 million gallons?", the state on energy financing, and some options for Green Asset Securitization, at biofuelsdigest.com.
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In Washington, the Advanced BioFuels Association unanimously elected Lee Edwards, CEO of Virent Energy Systems, as Chairman and Robert M. Ames, Vice President and General Manager of Tyson Foods, as Vice Chairman at its winter board meetings. The ABFA is a lobbying organization focused on advanced biofuels, and headed by ABA President Mike McAdams.

In Hawaii, HIPPO (Hawaii Pure Plant Oil), the first commercial biofuel platation in the islands, said that it will expand production from 250 acres to 1000 through land leases after test results from a two-year jatropha cultivation project yielded its first test gallons of biodiesel. HIPPO is currently raising $1.3 million for a mechanical harvester and a jatropha oil press. 

Many people become entrepreneurs and start their own companies because of the 'freedom' they desire," writes Dr. Rosalie Lober in "The Commercialization Chellenge", her latest Bioenergy PROFITS Principles column."In the biofuels arena, as in other smaller enterprises, less financial resources and fewer expert functions result in a 'commercialization challenge' after the research and electronic drawings and renditions of what could be, reach the economy of scalability phase."
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Greentech Media: "The Gribble worm is more known as a pest that eats the hulls of ships.  It turns out the bacteria in its stomach produces the requisite enzymes that can break cellulose into simple sugars...Whether the Gribble worm's process is scalable is another issue, but such minor details do not seem to make it into the hyperbolic press releases announcing these 'discoveries.' "

From The Nation: "Johann Hari's impeccable research implicates most of the environmental groups you've heard of as selling their missions for funding from oil and coal companies.  While not related directly to Indirect Land Use, the latest thing to plague biofuels, Hari offers a compelling explanation of the role these NGO's play in focusing the spotlight on emissions in faraway lands so we don't have to make tough emission reduction decisions right here at home.  The Big Oil, Big Green lovefest gets better, but you are going to have to read it to find out why one person said, "We're close to a civil war in the environmental movement."
International News

In India, Prime Minister Manmohan Singh and Finance Minister Pranab Mukherjee are holding firm on the increase in excise and customs duties on petroleum products. Revenue Secretary Sunil Mitra on Wednesday ruled out any changes in the tax proposals in the budget pertaining to these items while maintaining that the increase in MAT (Minimum Alternate Tax) from 15 per cent to 18 per cent would also stay.

In China, China Integrated Energy, a leading non-state-owned integrated energy company, announced that it expects to exceed its previously updated guidance for calendar year 2009 revenue and net income of $265 million and $35 million, and updated guidance on its plans to expand biodiesel production.

In India, Daimler AG, which sparked the development of Jatropha biodiesel with its spectacular B100 cross-country test drives in 2002, is back in India. This time the company has launched a new jatropha plantation project in South India, for which it has already planted first 100 hectares. It is working with village communities in Tamil Nadu, supplying  both funds and expertise from its  successfully completed research projects.
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In Washington state, the Harris Group has released a compelling, short white paper on the criteria for selection of industrial sites for bioenergy projects - leading with site attributes, regulation and community support. The white paper, among other items, outlines a spreadsheetbased comparison methodology. The free whitepaper can be downloaded via biofuelsdigest.com.
Policy and Policymakers

In Washington, a group of 18 state governors have written to Senate Majority leader Harry Reid, House speaker Nancy Pelosi and the Republican congressional leadership to urge the Senate and Congress to limit the power of the EPA to regulate CO2 under the Clean Air Act, citing economic impacts.  The Supreme Court cleared the way for such regulation in a landmark 2007 ruling.
Consumer, Fleet, Event News

In Washington, the Global Advanced Biofuels Scale Up Summit 2010 announced its speaker line-up for the conference, scheduled for June 22-23 in DC. Among CEOs are Michael Butler of Cascadia Capital, Rick LeBlanc of Chemrec, Bill Haywood of LS9 and Sean Sutcliffe of Gren Biologics.  The EPA's Margo Oge, and John Ferrell - head of the DOE's Biomass Program, as well as senior officials from DOD, USDA and the European Commission are also on the program.
Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference: DC, 4/27-29, 2010

ABLC - congress
In Washington, the Advanced Biofuels Leadership Conference announced that it has closed registrations for the event, maintaining its focus on an intimate setting for real networking and dialogue, and a limited number of attendees.

The US Department of Energy, Iogen, Chromatin, PetroAlgae, Dupont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol,  Remfuel, and Fluor, have signed on as sponsors for the three-day event, which includes more than 50 CEOs among the 180+ attendees.

Agenda and speakers. The conference agenda is here.

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The Biofuels Digest Index™ (BDI), a basket of public biofuels stocks, declined 0.34 percent to 67.13 on Big Grain weakness.  For the day, Archer Daniels Midland (ADM) dropped 2.65 percent to $29.44, while BP advanced 0.73 percent to $56.60. Among smaller caps, Biofuels Energy (BIOF) gained 4.00 percent to $2.86. Overall, advances and declines were even for the day.  
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The Commercialization Challenge: PROFITS Principles, Flexibility

The Commercialization Challenge: PROFITS Principles, Flexibility

By Biofuels Digest columnist Dr. Rosalie Lober

Many people become entrepreneurs and start their own companies because of the 'freedom' they desire.  Others, who do not want the responsibility of company ownership, yet crave the idea of a small, congenial environment, also choose to work in small companies.  These companies promise to fulfill an easy flowing work environment without the bureaucracy and tedious approval layers of larger corporations.

In the biofuels arena, as in other smaller enterprises, less financial resources and fewer expert functions result in a 'commercialization challenge' after the research and electronic drawings and renditions of what could be, reach the economy of scalability phase.  In your kitchen, preparing a dinner for twenty may not require more time than cooking for twelve.  However, in your business, this difference very likely requires more demands on farmers, producers and transport agreements.

Your innovative biofuels company requires Flexibility. The types of flexibility we address here require two types of actions that may sometimes seem to be in conflict:

  • Design flexible financial strategies
  • Design structured processes

"Flexibility is a creative flow and is not encumbered by rules…There is a lack of control and discipline.  Things organize naturally, without effort.  New ideas surface.  People build on each other's thoughts and adapt to the current reality.  Creativity has free reign."  Some of these definitions sound almost romantic, This may be surprising, considering they evolved in a discussion in a business class.

Design flexible financial strategies

To be effective, there must be some structure when practicing flexibility. Yet not one person in the business class included the words processes, discipline, boundaries or planning in their definition.  Unbounded, uncontrolled and undisciplined flexibility is not flexibility at all.  It is chaos.  Anyone who works for any company for any length of time can cite many examples of the phenomenon I'll call 'flexibility chaos.'

Saavy early-stage companies piece together unique funding strategies and forge powerful partnerships to reach their goals.  The 'Valley of Death', the between the time a startup settles on a technical approach and commercializes a pilot project is the 'do or die' time for a biofuels business.

A new startup must keep ahead of the competition. Fortunately, the government and your competition want success and growth in the biofuels industry too.  The Environmental Protection Agency proposed the Renewable Fuel Standard (RFS) and approved production of cellulosic biofuels starting in 2010, growing to 16 billion gallons by 2022 (more than 10 percent of the transportation fuel pool).

To achieve that high hurdle, biofuels related companies must execute their technologies into the commercialization phase.  Lab successes can be obliterated in this phase by the competitive realities of the commercialization/scalability process.

Clarify your priorities and goals

It is critical to determine your priorities and goals.  Do you want to build, own, operate, manufacture or sell your technology?  Do you want to license, purchase enzymes, partner with growers, become a strategic partner?  Qteros, for example, chose to consolidate the processes for separating sugars from biomass and fermentation. Their enzyme demonstrates the ability to reduce bioprocessing costs by 40 percent, through decreased capital and process outlays.  This is where they choose to focus their energy.

Funding

Loan vehicles to fund and build demonstration plants are difficult to find, especially since the summer of 2008.  The most profitable companies piece together a conglomerate of companies, many of whom are their own investors. This is a creative method for reducing risk along the value chain.  It also creates independence and equity stakes for owners who do not want to be beholden to potential investors.  Commitment is high in these companies.

And, once a company demonstrates success, finding funding becomes much easier.  "We have actually been able to accelerate everything we've done because we've had good partners," says Verenium's CEO, William Baum. Verenium partnered with BP to become Vercipia Biofuels, with the goal of producing 36 million gallons of cellulosic ethanol by 2012 in its commercial pilot. Partnerships also create operational as well as  financial opportunities.  Vercipia is taking advantage of a Florida Farm to Fuel grant, and it was the first cellulosic project selected under the U.S. Energy Department's Title XVII loan guarantee program for innovative technology.

Creating alliances and partnerships aligns your product with producers.  David Steward of Citrus Energy, Inc. has an alliance with Southern Gardens Citrus to obtain citrus peels for a time in the future when he will obtain funding for commercialization.  Lining up alliances in advance of production ensures that commercialization can begin as soon as the funds arrive.

Mitigate risks

Jim Imbler, CEO and President of ZeaChem talks about risk mitigation.  "Anticipating and alleviating risk whenever possible is the winning strategy for this successful CEO and his company.  As global competitive pressure increases and product life cycles compress, companies are trying to shorten product development cycle times. Product development cycle times increase with increased product complexity and with product newness.

Other factors effecting financial flexibility

Some of the other important factors that determine how successful companies create their funding strategy include determining priorities for capital efficiency, time to market, exit prospects, competitive landscape, industry expectations, market conditions, policy/regulatory environment, geographic location and other investors.

Design structured processes

From new business starts to product development in large companies, chaos can reign across a range of business situations.  For some companies, order may organically evolve from experience and the repetition of repeated work procedures.  Creating order varies for each company and depends upon projects and expertise.  Many times functions do not work together.  Finance doesn't consult with marketing about pricing.  Operations may not communicate with sales.  Salespeople are out in the field making promises to customers without engineering or operations validating the probability of delivering on those promises.

Making it up as you go along, without coordination among the moving parts of the business, what some may call "flexibility," is a recipe for disaster.

How can your management team develop creative, adaptive and thoughtful responses to new circumstances?  How can you alleviate most of the chaos in your business?  A well-engineered process can address potential chaos and provide the knowledge that offers direction.  Knowing what's expected can help you sail through unexpected market shifts may disrupt that frequently interrupt well-designed strategies. It is always important to have a plan.  Yet, it's important to maintain flexibility and not always regiment your business to strictly follow every detail of your plan.  It is not a contradiction to say that a well-designed plan with specific details reminds you where you are going and demonstrates a well-grounded thinking process and still remain receptive and open to changing your plan based on market conditions and customer needs.

Flexibility is one of the Bioenergy PROFITS Principles, highlighted in Dr. Rosalie Lober's, newly released book, Run Your Business like a Fortune 100: 7 Principles for Boosting PROFITS.  Learn here, how you can apply some of the best practices and proven principles of successful biofuels companies for running your business most effectively in this current world of climate change and renewable energy.

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BIOCOMBUSTIBLES: Producir biogás para el transporte reduciría las emisiones de carbono en un 193%

Producir biogás para el transporte reduciría las emisiones de carbono en un 193%

Metodología y evidencias para la determinación de los efectos indirectos, en términos de emisión de gases de efecto invernadero, del empleo de residuos y subproductos en la producción de bioenergía. Este es el largo título del estudio encargado por el Departamento de Energía y Cambio Climático y la Agencia de Combustibles Renovables, ambos radicados en el Reino Unido.
Una de las conclusiones más significativas del estudio es que "el empleo de residuos sólidos urbanos para producir biogás para el transporte reduciría las emisiones netas de carbono en un 193% en comparación con el gasóleo de origen fósil".

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Alemania demuestra, con 4.500 plantas, que el presente del biogás está en el campo

el biogas , futuro esta en el campo

 

Quedan casi nueve meses para que se celebre en Munich (Alemania) IFAT 2010, una de las ferias más importantes del mundo en equipamientos y servicios ambientales, y la industria germana del biogás mueve sus fichas para la cita dejando claro cuáles son sus poderes: 4.500 plantas (el 95%, industriales) y la mitad de la producción eléctrica de la Unión Europea. 

Los organizadores de IFAT 2010 (del 13 al 17 de septiembre de 2010) presentan a Alemania como el número uno del sector del biogás en la Unión Europea, por lo que sugieren estar atentos a todos los sistemas y tecnologías que presenten en esta feria que se celebra cada dos años en Munich. Según datos de la Asociación Profesional de Biogás, 2009 se ha cerrado con 4.500 plantas operativas en Alemania, y cerca de un 95% utiliza residuos de procedencia agrícola y ganadera, como purín, estiércol y cultivos energéticos.

Al contrario de lo que ocurre en España, donde la mayoría de la producción de biogás procede de la fracción orgánica de los residuos sólidos urbanos, en Alemania se apuesta por las actividades ganaderas y agrícolas como principales suministradoras de materia prima. También es testimonial en este país el biogás generado a partir de los desechos orgánicos derivados de la producción de alimentos.

Schmack Biogas y Strabag Umwelt, dos potencias mundiales
Entre los motivos que aducen algunas de las empresas que estarán presentes en IFAT para no centrar su actividad en todo lo que no provenga directamente de la agricultura y la ganadería, está "la composición cambiante de otras fuentes de energía, que dificultan de manera significativa los procesos de fermentación. Además, es necesario higienizar los alimentos caducados y otros restos de alimentos cocinados antes de la fermentación".

La potencia industrial germana en este campo está dominada por empresas como Schmack Biogas, con 220 plantas repartidas por todo el mundo, y Strabag Umwelt, con 34 instalaciones. Entre las dos procesan casi 4 millones de toneladas anuales de residuos. Según datos del Observatorio de las Energías Renovables (EurObserv'ER), en 2007 la producción eléctrica con biogás en la UE alcanzó los 20.000 TWh, de los cuales casi la mitad correspondieron a Alemania.

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producción mundial de bioenergía en 2050 podría abastecer el consumo total de energía - Mundo

La producción mundial de bioenergía en 2050 podría abastecer el consumo total de energía – Mundo

 

 

Un documento de posición publicado por la World Bioenergy Association (WBA), basado en un informe del departamento de Energía y Tecnología de la Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (Suecia), muestra que el potencial de producción mundial de biomasa para generar energía mediante métodos sostenibles es suficiente para cubrir la demanda total actual y futura.

A través de diferentes foros y presentaciones se siguen dando a conocer los pormenores del informe Global Potential of Sustainable Biomass for Energy, presentado por la WBA el pasado mes de diciembre en Copenhague (Dinamarca), durante la celebración de la COP15 del Convenio sobre Cambio Climático. Basado en diferentes estudios científicos, en el de la WBA se estima que el potencial estimado de producción de energía en 2050 es de entre 1.135 y 1.548 exajulios (EJ).

En la misma línea, se calcula que el consumo global de energía en la actualidad es de 490 EJ y que en 2050 esta cantidad alcanzará los 1.000 EJ, acorde con las proyecciones que maneja la Agencia Internacional de la Energía. Con estos datos en la mano, la WBA no duda en afirmar que la bioenergía podría cubrir esa demanda mundial de energía, y siempre mediante métodos de explotación y producción sostenibles. En la actualidad solo se aprovechan 50 EJ de biomasa, lo que supone en torno al 10% del consumo global.

25 millones de hectáreas para bioenergía
Según el documento presentado por la WBA, la producción de bioenergía en la actualidad (biomasa, biogás y biocarburantes) precisa de una superficie de cultivo de 25 millones de hectáreas, que abarcan el 0,20% de toda la superficie terrestre y el 0,5% de las tierras agrícolas. La Asociación Española de Valorización Energética de la Biomasa (Avebiom) tuvo oportunidad de conocer éstas y otras informaciones referidas al documento durante una jornada de presentación de la feria World Bioenergy 2010 (25-27 de mayo en Jönköping, Suecia) en el Museo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología de Estocolmo, en el que más de 60 diplomáticos procedentes de 35 embajadas acudieron para conocer más acerca de Suecia y la bioenergía.

La nota emitida por Avebiom recoge las palabras de Tomas Kåberger, director general de la Agencia Sueca de le Energía y presidente de World Bioenergy 2010, quien recalcó que "Suecia tiene una capacidad excepcional para mostrar las tecnologías más modernas en bioenergía en condiciones reales y en diferentes localizaciones. La clave de WB10 es dirigir a los visitantes desde el know-how al show-how (es decir, mostrar no sólo el conocimiento teórico sino el conocimiento aplicado) a través de visitas técnicas (study tours) y excursiones a cien instalaciones de bioenergía situadas en el sur del país".

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