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INEOS Bio JV Closes $75M in private financing under USDA loan guarantee program for advanced BioEnergy Center in Florida

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INEOS Bio announced that its joint-venture project, INEOS New Planet BioEnergy (INPB), has finalized $75 million in private financing utilizing the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) loan guarantee program for its new Indian River BioEnergy Center located in Florida. million dollar cost matching grant from the State of Florida.

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CNG Ford Focus Available in Florida

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and Altech-Eco have signed an exclusive agreement to bring EPA-certified dedicated and bi-fuel (gasoline/compressed natural gas) retrofitted Ford Focus vehicles (MY 2008 and 2009) to Florida consumers. The Ford Focus with CNG option is now available in Florida through Wise Gas, Inc. Wise Gas , Inc. Wise Gas, Inc. Wise Gas, Inc.

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USDA provides $91M loan guarantee to Cool Planet for biogasoline blendstock plant; biomass pyrolysis and catalytic conversion

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Cool Planet has devised a biomass-to-liquids thermochemical conversion process that simultaneously produces liquid fuels and sequesterable biochar useful as a soil amendment. One of the catalytic conversion processes creates the high-octane gasoline blendstock. Earlier post.). Earlier post.).

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Auto retail tech startup Stella Automobile AI hires unutilized CEO

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His hiring, efficient Would possibly 26 and introduced Monday, comes then the corporate in early Would possibly introduced it had closed a seed spherical of financing. Stella Automobile has the unique license to the Telepathy Labs conversational AI era. Stella Automobile AI, a Tampa, Fla.,

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DOE to award $118M to 17 projects to accelerate domestic biofuel production

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Financing for novel biorefinery process systems can be a barrier to commercializing advanced biofuels, and this funding will reduce technological uncertainties and enable industry deployment. This project will demonstrate the conversion of gaseous carbon wood wastes (terpenes) to renewable Terpenes SAF blending components.

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Aurora Biofuels Secures $15M in Funding

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This third round of financing brings the total amount of money raised by the company to more than $40 million. The company has been collaborating with Florida Tech in a project focused on developing biofuel with co-products to enhance animal feed as a means to improve the economics of the fuel-production process. Aurora Biofuels, Inc.

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BP and Verenium Form Cellulosic Ethanol Venture to Deliver Advanced Biofuels

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This collaboration is intended to progress the development of one of the nation’s first commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol facilities, located in Highlands County, Florida and to create future opportunities for leveraging cellulosic ethanol technologies. Earlier post.).