Biofuel Stocks List

Biofuel Stocks Recent News

Date Stock Title
Nov 7 KBR KBR Awarded FEED Contract for Sur LNG Train 4 Project
Nov 6 HTGC Trinity Capital Vs. Hercules Capital: 2 BDC Venture Capital Kings, Only 1 Is A Buy
Nov 5 AZPN Aspen Technology Announces Receipt of Unsolicited Acquisition Proposal from Emerson
Nov 5 AZPN 'Old Economy' Stocks Soar On Earnings And New Growth Drivers
Nov 5 AZPN Aspen Q1 Earnings & Revenues Miss Estimates, Decline Y/Y
Nov 5 AZPN Emerson offers to buy rest of AspenTech for $240/share in cash
Nov 5 AZPN Emerson offers to buy rest of AspenTech in $15 billion deal to sharpen automation focus
Nov 5 AZPN Emerson Announces Key Actions to Complete the Portfolio Transformation to an Industrial Technology Leader Delivering Advanced Automation Solutions
Nov 5 AZPN Aspen Technology Inc (AZPN) Q1 2025 Earnings Call Highlights: Strategic Acquisitions and Market ...
Nov 5 AZPN Aspen Technology, Inc. (AZPN) Q1 2025 Earnings Call Transcript
Nov 5 HTGC Hercules Capital At 70% Premium, Or The Simple High-Yield ETF HYG At NAV?
Nov 5 AZPN Here's What Key Metrics Tell Us About Aspen Technology (AZPN) Q1 Earnings
Nov 4 AZPN Aspen Technology (AZPN) Lags Q1 Earnings and Revenue Estimates
Nov 4 AZPN Aspen Technology: Fiscal Q1 Earnings Snapshot
Nov 4 AZPN Aspen Non-GAAP EPS of $0.85 misses by $0.68, revenue of $215.9M misses by $47.26M
Nov 4 AZPN Aspen Technology Announces Financial Results for the First Quarter of Fiscal 2025
Nov 4 AZPN Aspen Technology Announces Expansion of Digital Grid Management Suite with Acquisition of Open Grid Systems
Nov 4 VGAS Verde Clean Fuels And 2 US Penny Stocks With Promising Prospects
Nov 3 CDXS Codexis, Inc. (NASDAQ:CDXS) Released Earnings Last Week And Analysts Lifted Their Price Target To US$7.17
Nov 2 CDXS Codexis Third Quarter 2024 Earnings: Revenues Beat Expectations, EPS Lags
Biofuel

A biofuel is a fuel that is produced through contemporary biological processes, such as agriculture and anaerobic digestion, rather than a fuel produced by geological processes such as those involved in the formation of fossil fuels, such as coal and petroleum, from prehistoric biological matter. If the source biomatter can regrow quickly, the resulting fuel is said to be a form of renewable energy.
Biofuels can be derived directly from plants (i.e. energy crops), or indirectly from agricultural, commercial, domestic, and/or industrial wastes. Renewable biofuels generally involve contemporary carbon fixation, such as those that occur in plants or microalgae through the process of photosynthesis. Other renewable biofuels are made through the use or conversion of biomass (referring to recently living organisms, most often referring to plants or plant-derived materials). This biomass can be converted to convenient energy-containing substances in three different ways: thermal conversion, chemical conversion, and biochemical conversion. This biomass conversion can result in fuel in solid, liquid, or gas form. This new biomass can also be used directly for biofuels.
Biofuels are in theory carbon-neutral because the carbon dioxide that is absorbed by the plants is equal to the carbon dioxide that is released when the fuel is burned. However, in practice, whether or not a biofuel is carbon-neutral also depends greatly on whether the land which is used to grow the biofuel (with 1st and 2nd generation biofuel) needed to be cleared of carbon-holding vegetation or not.
Bioethanol is an alcohol made by fermentation, mostly from carbohydrates produced in sugar or starch crops such as corn, sugarcane, or sweet sorghum. Cellulosic biomass, derived from non-food sources, such as trees and grasses, is also being developed as a feedstock for ethanol production. Ethanol can be used as a fuel for vehicles in its pure form (E100), but it is usually used as a gasoline additive to increase octane and improve vehicle emissions. Bioethanol is widely used in the United States and in Brazil. Current plant design does not provide for converting the lignin portion of plant raw materials to fuel components by fermentation.
Biodiesel can be used as a fuel for vehicles in its pure form (B100), but it is usually used as a diesel additive to reduce levels of particulates, carbon monoxide, and hydrocarbons from diesel-powered vehicles. Biodiesel is produced from oils or fats using transesterification and is the most common biofuel in Europe.
In 2010, worldwide biofuel production reached 105 billion liters (28 billion gallons US), up 17% from 2009, and biofuels provided 2.7% of the world's fuels for road transport. Global ethanol fuel production reached 86 billion liters (23 billion gallons US) in 2010, with the United States and Brazil as the world's top producers, accounting together for about 90% of global production. The world's largest biodiesel producer is the European Union, accounting for 53% of all biodiesel production in 2010. As of 2011, mandates for blending biofuels exist in 31 countries at the national level and in 29 states or provinces. The International Energy Agency has a goal for biofuels to meet more than a quarter of world demand for transportation fuels by 2050 to reduce dependence on petroleum and coal. The production of biofuels also led into a flourishing automotive industry, where by 2010, 79% of all cars produced in Brazil were made with a hybrid fuel system of bioethanol and gasoline.There are various social, economic, environmental and technical issues relating to biofuels production and use, which have been debated in the popular media and scientific journals.

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