Bioenergy & Biofuels

June/July 2008
Volume 1, Numbers 6 & 7

A volatile and dynamic segment of the climate change industry, Bioenergy holds great promise and risk for nations, investors, producers and consumers. The U.S. bioenergy industry, which includes biopower and the biofuels business, has grown from a relatively stagnant market of around $5 billion in annual revenues during the years 1990 to 2002 to close to $25 billion in 2008.

In this special edition, CCBJ presents a quantitative assessment of the bioenergy industry, survey results and a forecast, as well as a qualitative review of segments derived from more than 50 interviews with executives, experts, regulators and investors.

Inside this edition:

  • Biofuels overview: A comprehensive look at the phenomenal rise of the $58-billion global biofuels business over the last five years, the economic and political challenges that have brought the industry back to earth in 2008, and forecasts for future growth.
  • Second-generation biofuels: How entrepreneurs, scientists, venture capitalists, governments, energy and technology companies are driving the development of cellulosic biofuels and algae for biodiesel; includes coverage of developments in both the biochemical and thermochemical R&D pathways.
  • Biomass power: Driven by climate change, renewable energy mandates and growing opposition to coal-fired power, biomass-fired power is on the move; Consolidation is the trend for traditional combustion plants; Utilities test co-firing with coal; waste managers tap into landfill-gas-to-energy opportunities; anaerobic digestion expands from Europe to North America.
  • Forest biorefining: Explores the strategies that leading forest products companies are using to evolve from producing lumber and fiber to producing biofuels and chemicals.
  • Also covered: Shell's international biofuels business strategy; Turmoil in U.S. and European biodiesel markets; the future of U.S. corn-based ethanol; Brazil's fast-growing sugarcane ethanol industry.

Companies: ADM, Aurora BioFuels, Black & Veatch, Borregaard, Brown and Caldwell, Cosan SA, Coskata, Covanta Energy, DuPont Danisco, Fulcrum Bioenergy, Iogen, Metcalf & Eddy, POET, Renergy, Renewable Energy Group, Shell International Renewables, Southern Company, US Renewables Group, W.R. Grace, Weyerhaeuser-Chevron and many more.

Individual editions of double-issues of CCBJ are available to non-subscribers for $295. Electronic subscribers receive the edition in a PDF file with internal distribution and duplication rights, as well as a spreadsheet with market models, forecasts, survey results and source data.

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