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Coskata's new Lighthouse cellulosic ethanol plant, in depth

Coskata's newly-opened semi-commercial flex ethanol facility in Madison, Pennsylvania is as small as it can possibly be. Co-located at a Westinghouse facility that also in some fashion uses nuclear energy, the Lighthouse project, as it's called, is running 24/7 to turn wood chips into ethanol. It's also intended to show off just how far Coskata has come since emerging from stealth mode almost two years ago. Oh, and the plant can also be scaled up to fit the needs of cellulosic ethanol producers from coast to coast. The Lighthouse plant ... Read more →

Coskata opens doors to first semi-commercial flex ethanol facility Sebastian Blanco

Coskata caught our attention back in January 2008 with the announcement that GM would take an equity stake in the cellulosic ethanol producer in an effort to bring the biofuel to market at a cost ...

Coskata's cellulosic ethanol road show hits Thailand, China, Australia Sebastian Blanco

Representatives from one of the GM-backed cellulosic ethanol concerns, Coskata, have been visiting the Asia-Pacific region recently to tout their anything-into-ethanol technology. In Thailand, they ...

Coskata pilot plant waiting for government aid to move forward Sebastian Blanco

It hasn't been an easy 14 months for Coskata. The cellulosic ethanol start-up made a big splash in January 2008 with the announcement of a partnership with GM. Since then, the company did move ...

Motor Trend's Top Ten Technologies have a decidedly green tint Jeremy Korzeniewski

Looking back on 2008, it seems that the biggest stories that shaped the automotive landscape had more to do with gas prices and economic conditions than the vehicles themselves. Regardless, there are ...

A tale of two ethanol companies: Coskata's up and Mascoma's down 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The two ethanol companies that GM has invested in, Coskata and Mascoma, must be making the automaker proud and frustrated this week, as they have very different news to report. Coskata's got some potentially good news: U.S. Sugar might be the next to try and commercialize the ...

Platts Cellulosic Ethanol Conference - sitting down with Coskata's Wes Bolsen 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

As promised, we got a chance to sit down with Wes Bolsen, the CMO and vice president at Coskata, during last week's Platts Cellulosic Ethanol Conference in Chicago. We wanted a little more information on the $1/gallon number for the Coskata process "cellulosic" ethanol (yes, Bolsen pointed out that ...

Platts Cellulosic Ethanol Conference - updates from Coskata, Novozymes and SunOpta 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Thursday at the Platts Cellulosic Ethanol Conference saw three of the cellulosic ethanol plant builders give updates on their strategy for converting biomass to fuel and where their companies are today. The speakers were Wes Bolsen, CMO and vp at Coskata, Christopher Veit, senior marketing manager, ...

Checking in with Coskata before we check in with Coskata 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Tomorrow and Friday, GM is hosting a biofuels seminar in Chicago. We'll be bringing you full coverage from the Windy City, but before we head over, we wanted to check up on what Coskata has been up to, considering that our friend Wes Bolsen will be on hand and we'll get an update directly from him. ...

GM plans to partner up with another cellulosic ethanol maker 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

You probably remember that back in January of this year, General Motors announced that it was partnering up with Coskata to make cheap cellulosic ethanol using a process developed by Coskata which includes the use of microorganisms developed by Oklahoma State University and Oklahoma University. ...

Coskata cellulosic ethanol pilot plant to be located in Madison Pennsylvania 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

General Motors and Coskata today announced that a pilot plant for cellulosic ethanol will be built in Madison, Pennsylvania. The plant will located adjacent to the Westinghouse Plasma Center in Madison. The plasma torches that Coskata will be using for their gasification process are based on ...

Coskata begins work on 40,000 gallon-per-year cellulosic ethanol plant 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

When Coskata came out of stealth mode in January, the company announced that a 40,000 gallon-per-year commercial demonstration plant using a proprietary microbial cellulosic ethanol production process would be in operation by the end of 2008. Greentech Media reports that the biofuel start-up has ...

Here's how Coskata will make cellulosic ethanol for $1/gallon 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The magical cost of $1 per gallon of cellulosic ethanol is certainly a hot calling card these days, and one of the most well-known purveyors of this story is Coskata. Coskata splashed onto the scene in January with the big GM announcement, and has stayed in the news by announcing a partnership with ...

Coskata raised $19.5m in Series B funding 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Photo by Jenn_Jenn. Licensed under Creative Commons license 2.0. According to this tiny news posting, the cellulosic ethanol biotech team over at Coskata has raised $19.5 million in Series B funding (series B funds are made in the second round of investment in a private company). Whether that money ...

Oklahoma State University gets new $1.2m bioenergy lab, Coskata folks must be smiling 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Oklahoma State University: the school of ethanol made from sweet sorghum. Also, the place where the proprietary microorganisms that Coskata uses in its cellulosic ethanol process came from. OSU certainly is no stranger to biofuels, and a new $1.2m bioenergy laboratory will further research turning ...

Pose your questions about cellulosic ethanol to a Coskata executive 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

GM will be holding another in their series of on-line chats this week on the GMnext.com site. This time around they will have Wes Bolsen, VP of Coskata available to answer questions from participants. Coskata is the company that has developed a process for producing cellulosic ethanol at much lower ...

Cars.com's visits Coskata, wonders if all this great ethanol can flow from boring surroundings 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

When AutoblogGreen visited Coskata's Chicago headquarters, we didn't get into details about just how ordinary (in a 21st century American suburban business park kind of way) the surrounding area looked. Cars.com's description of their visit, though, starts off by questioning whether this potential ...

Autoblog Green Podcast #19 - Chicago Auto Show 2008 wrap-up 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

Some people use airport layovers to sleep, read, or get a meal. Sam and Sebastian took the opportunity to record AutoblogGreen Podcast #19. While waiting for a plane to whisk them back home from the Chicago Auto Show, we recapped a few things we saw at the show. It wasn't the greenest show we've ...

Chicago 2008 AutoblogGreen Q&A: Coskata's Wes Bolsen on the ICM partnership 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

To get a little more information out of Coskata about this morning's announcement of a partnership with ICM to build the first commercial cellulosic ethanol plant using Coskata's proprietary process (past details on Coskata are here), we tracked down Wes Bolsen, chief marketing officer, business ...

More on Coskata: partners with ICM for cellulosic ethanol plants 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

While not as big a deal as Coskata's announcement at the Detroit Auto Show, the company is not letting the Chicago Auto Show go by without letting some more cellulosic ethanol news slip out. The company announced today that it had formed a strategic alliance with ICM for the design and construction ...

Detroit 2008: Videos of GM-Coskata ethanol partnership and BMW's diesel plans 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

If all the AutoblogGreen coverage of the GM-Coskata cellulosic ethanol partnership wasn't enough to satisfy your curiosity about just how these two companies hope to make living green and going yellow that much better for the environment (at least until Coskata gets into the coal-to-ethanol stuff, ...

Detroit 2008 videos: Coskata, GM, Ford 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

The video above includes a chat with clean tech investor Vinod Khosla at the Detroit Auto Show. Vinod Khosla has backed ethanol company Coskata, which announced a partnership with GM at the Detroit Auto Show. Vinod says oil companies will get into the ethanol business because they are really energy ...

AutoblogGreen Q&A: Coskata CEO Bill Roe on cellulosic ethanol partnership with GM 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

In the latest AutoblogGreen podcast, we featured an interview with Coskata president and CEO Bill Roe. This is a transcription of that interview. For a way-too detailed look at the GM-Coskata cellulosic ethanol partnership discussed in this chat, check out this post. ABG: I'm here with Bill Roe, ...

Autoblog Green Podcast #17 - Coskata Energy's Bill Roe 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

We're in Detroit now, but Sebastian and Sam took some time to chat about a few things before leaving for the show. Rick Wagoner's CES keynote was historic, as was the appearance of the Cadillac Provoq at that show. Coming up at Detroit we'll bring you details on all of the alternative and ...

Detroit 2008: GM and Coskata announce worldwide cellulosic ethanol partnership 1 year ago on Autoblog Green

General Motors vehicles and biomass materials are two things that you can find pretty much anywhere on the planet. GM and Coskata Energy announced a partnership today at the Detroit Auto Show that certainly hints at a future where you we will find biomass materials fueling GM vehicles in a lot of ...


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