Balloting will be open to the registered subscribers of the Biofuels Digest, Geothermal Digest and Biomass Digest e-newsletters, through Wednesday November 25th at 5pm EST. Your link to the ballot is contained in your copy of the Digest newsletters.

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“Early precincts” are reporting – 70 percent of the invited selectors have already cast their votes. Though final results may vary significantly, early leaders are:

1. Amyris Biotechnologies (last year #7)
2. LS9 (last year #25)
3. POET (last year #4)
4. Sapphire Energy (last year – #2)
5. Coskata (last year #1)
6. Solazyme (last year #6)
7. BP Biofuels (last year – unranked)
8. Gevo (last year #27)
9. UOP (last year #10)
10. Verenium (last year #36)

Among subscriber voting, early leaders are:

1. DuPont Danisco (last year #9)
2. BP Biofuels (last year – unranked)
3. Solazyme (last year #6)
4. POET (last year #4)
5. Shell (last year unranked)
6. ExxonMobil (last year unranked)
7. Coskata (last year #1)
8. Novozymes (last year #14)
9. Sapphire Energy (last year #2)
10. Genencor (last year unranked)

Over the past week, Gevo reappeared in the invited selector top 10, while Verenium just missed out on making both top 10s.  The big trend this year so far is the advance by companies making drop-in, renewable fuels, with companies such as UOP, BP Biofuels, Amyris and LS9 moving up. 7 of the top 10 on the selectors’ list now have drop-in fuel capabilities. POET, BP Biofuels, Coskata, Solazyme and Sapphire have appeared on both Top 10s in voting to date.

In all, more than 200 companies have received votes in this year’s ballot, to date.