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In May of 2011, Forisk published a study that evaluated the viability of the wood-based transportation fuel sector in the U.S. The study detailed 12 technologies and 36 projects that convert wood to fuels including ethanol, butanol, diesel, gasoline, and more…
A fundamental mismatch exists between clean energy projects and venture capital funds. This conclusion, in a Harvard Business School working paper “Venture Capital Investment in the Clean Energy Sector” by Shikhar Ghosh and Ramana Nanda, emphasized investor expectations of extraordinary more…
Wood bioenergy projects continue to either gain traction or fall to the sidelines as investors shake the sector like a sack of Scrabble tiles. While the number of projects that pass Forisk’s screening methodology in April fell from 297 to more…
The wood bioenergy sector in the United States continues its extended round of musical chairs. As of January 30, 2012, Wood Bioenergy US reports that projected wood demand for all announced projects in the U.S. dropped 7.4 million tons year-to-date, more…
The Buddha tells the private equity fund he can fulfill one of its wishes. A managing director asks, “could you simplify the tax code?” Seeing the Buddha frown in silence, the person suggests another wish, “could you make our cellulosic more…
This month I met with the Lt. Governor of a state with a substantive forest industry. The discussion centered on ways to support forest owners, wood markets and job creating projects. Then the conversation turned to the potential of wood-based more…
This week, the National Research Council (NRC), which operates as part of the US Academy of Sciences to advise Congress, published a study concluding that the United States will likely fail to satisfy its long-term Renewable Fuel Standards (RFS2) mandate more…
This year, Amanda Lang, our Director of Wood Bioenergy Research, has led efforts to enhance the investment-relevant insights from Wood Bioenergy US, the Forisk publication that tracks all announced and operating wood-using bioenergy projects in the US. As of the September more…
The June issue of Wood Bioenergy US indicates that, as of June 28, 2011: The continental US has 457 wood-consuming, announced and operating bioenergy projects (up from 453 in May). In total, these projects represent potential, incremental wood use of 130.5 million green more…
Last month, our team published a project-by-project study of the US biofuels sector called “Transportation Fuels from Wood: Investment and Market Implications of Current Projects and Technologies.” One of the 36 projects evaluated in the study is KiOR, which went public more…