Renewable fuels and chemicals developer Amyris took the #1 spot in the 2010-11 "50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy" rankings, published in Biofuels Digest, the online daily bioenergy news service.
Solazyme (#2), POET (#3), LS9 (#4), Gevo (#5), DuPont Danisco Cellulosic Ethanol (#6), Novozymes (#7), Coskata (#8), Codexis (#9) and Sapphire Energy (#10) round out the top 10. Ranked #11 through #20 are Virent, Mascoma, Ceres, Cobalt Technologies, Honeywell's UOP, Enerkem, BP Biofuels, Genencor, Petrobars and Abengoa Bioenergy.
The rankings, which recognize innovation and achievement in bioenergy development, are based 50 percent on votes from a 75-member panel of international selectors, and 50 percent on votes from subscribers of Biofuels Digest and Renewable Chemicals Digest. Overall, more than 1,000 companies were eligible in the rankings and 301 companies received votes. Amyris Biotechnologies ranked #1 in the international Selector poll, while Solazyme ranked #1 in the subscriber poll.
Among the Hot 50, 37 were US-based companies and 13 were from other countries. Fifteen are active in cellulosic ethanol development (down from 19 last year), five are developing algae-based energy solutions (down from seven last year), and 16 are producing "drop-in" renewable biofuels such as biobutanol, renewable diesel, green gasoline and renewable jet fuel (up from 15 last year). Thirteen are developing capabilities to produce renewable chemicals.
Strategic investors such as Waste Management, Chevron, and Monsanto appeared in the rankings for the first time, while Shell advanced this year and BP Biofuels reached the top 20. DuPont was an investor in two top-50 companies, DDCE and Butamax.
New companies in the list this year include: Cargill (#36), Butamax (#38), Cosan (#40), Waste Management (#42), Dynamic Fuels (#44), KiOR (#47), Chevron (#48), and Monsanto (#49).
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Amyris
Solazyme
POET
LS9
Gevo
DuPont Danisco
Novozymes
Coskata
Codexis
Sapphire Energy
Virent
Mascoma
Ceres
Cobalt Technologies
Honeywell's UOP
Enerkem
BP Biofuels
Genencor
Petrobras
Abengoa Energy
Qteros
Joule Unlimited
Shell
Bluefire Renewables
Rentech
Algenol
ZeaChem
PetroAlgae
Neste
Synthetic Genomics
LanzaTech
Iogen
OriginOIl
RangeFuels
ExxonMobil
Cargill
SG Biofuels
Butamax
Terrabon
Cosan
Verenium
Waste Management
IneosBio
Dynamic Fuels
Fulcrum Bioenergy
KL Energy
KiOR
Chevron
Monsanto
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