A joint venture with Dutch life sciences firm DSM has allowed biofuels producer Poet to eschew a loan guarantee from the US government.

Renewable Energy Group, the largest producer of biodiesel in the US, has raised $72 million in its initial public offering (IPO), only about two thirds of its target.

Biofuels developer Coskata has announced plans to raise up to $100 million from the public markets to help fund a commercial-scale plant turning woody biomass into ethanol.

Fulcrum Bioenergy has joined the flurry of US biofuels companies hoping to raise cash from the public markets.

US biofuels firm Mascoma is planning to raise $100 million in an initial public offering (IPO).

Confidence is returning to the jatropha biofuels sector, say analysts, despite two scientists this week publishing a withering critique of its success so far.

A US biodiesel producer is hoping to tap the public markets for $100 million, following the success of other recent biofuel offerings.

A mandate that requires airlines to use biofuels would help speed large-scale adoption of renewable aviation fuels, according to a Neste Oil executive.

Former US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is to join the board of biofuels company Kior, as the firm aims to raise more than $241 million in an initial public offering (IPO).

US Senators have voted overwhelmingly to abolish a controversial tax break for corn ethanol.

Tax credits for ethanol production remain on the US statute books, after an effort by Senate Republicans to repeal the support mechanism failed.

Government subsidies for biofuels should be scrapped to help ease pressure on global food prices, says a report by the UN, the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund.

Shell has combined forces with Brazilian ethanol company Cosan and launched a $12 billion joint venture, named Raizen, in one of the biggest biofuel deals to date.

Algae biofuels company Solazyme debuted on the Nasdaq today, with stocks reaching a 20% premium on its $18 offer price.

Californian algae biofuels company Solazyme is hoping to raise $184 million in its initial public offering, nearly double the firm’s original target.

Global biofuel use could increase more than 13-fold by 2050 and meet more than a quarter of demand for transportation fuel, without jeopardising food and environmental security, the International Energy Agency (IEA) has said.

A Californian biofuels company that makes oil from algae hopes to raise $100 million in an initial public offering (IPO).

The US government is stepping up its support for advanced biofuels, with two federal agencies providing loan guarantees worth hundreds of millions, but the sector still faces funding and technology issues that are challenging its ability to scale-up operations.

A biofuel plant in Louisiana is turning chicken fat and pork lard into renewable diesel, in what its joint venture partners say is the first commercial-scale advanced biofuels facility in the US.

Advanced biofuels firm Amyris raised $85 million on Tuesday through an initial public offering (IPO) on Nasdaq.