Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Monday, March 26, 2012

What’s your biofuels venture worth?

Biofuels Digest
Jim Lane March 23, 2012

Which technologies perform better than others with today’s feedstock costs, financing terms and fuel prices? Is your technology better, or miles better?

The Digest’s updated Biofuels Venture Valuation Calculator provides a quick comparison tool.
In Florida, Biofuels Digest released an updated version of its Biofuels Venture Value Calculator, downloadable here.. The purpose of the calculator is to assist project developers to quickly compare their basic system economics to other existing technologies for processing biomass into transport fuel and other co-products.

The free, downloadable Calculator offers 12 basic “business cases” for technologies such as “cellulosic ethanol,” “Cellulosic ethanol with loan guarantee”, “renewable diesel with 15 cent sugar” – based on estimates from projects whose costs have reached the public domain.

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