{"id":544278,"date":"2010-04-27T08:44:48","date_gmt":"2010-04-27T12:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/?p=7821"},"modified":"2010-04-27T08:44:48","modified_gmt":"2010-04-27T12:44:48","slug":"total-invests-in-ethanol-maker-coskata","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/544278","title":{"rendered":"Total Invests In Ethanol Maker Coskata"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/biofuel.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Biofuel\" \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.greenenergyreporter.com\/wp-content\/themes\/v1\/img\/cat\/funding.png\" width=\"8\" height=\"8\" alt=\"\" title=\"Funding\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Total, the French oil and gas major, has invested an undisclosed sum in ethanol maker Coskata, which has developed a refining process that can turn garbage, old tires and other waste materials into ethanol.<\/p>\n<p><span id=\"more-7821\"><\/span><\/p>\n<p>Warrenville, Ill.,-based Coskata plans to use proceeds from the Total equity investment to scale production and commercialize its production.<\/p>\n<p>Returning investors included Blackstone Cleantech Venture Partners, Khosla Ventures, Advanced Technology Ventures (ATV), Globespan Capital Partners, and Arancia &#8211;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.businesswire.com\/portal\/site\/home\/permalink\/?ndmViewId=news_view&amp;newsId=20100427005391&amp;newsLang=en\" > see full press release<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>In January 2008 General Motors said it was investing in Coskata. It also did not disclose the amount of its investment.<\/p>\n<p>Last fall Coskata <a href=\"http:\/\/www.coskata.com\/media\/index.asp?story=F351125C-9886-4E59-A7BE-317389D1FC03\" >went live with a demonstration plant<\/a> in Madison, Pa. The output will be delivered to GM, which will test it at the company&#8217;s Milford Proving Grounds.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/greenenergyreporter.com\/2009\/04\/french-oil-giant-total-invests-in-butanol-maker-gevo-in-fourth-financing-round\/\" >Total also holds a stake in Gevo<\/a>, an Englewood, Colo.-based producer of butanol.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/GreenEnergyReporter\/~4\/N_C9zgcRA9c\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Total, the French oil and gas major, has invested an undisclosed sum in ethanol maker Coskata, which has developed a refining process that can turn garbage, old tires and other waste materials into ethanol. Warrenville, Ill.,-based Coskata plans to use proceeds from the Total equity investment to scale production and commercialize its production. Returning investors [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2814,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-544278","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544278","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2814"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=544278"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/544278\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=544278"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=544278"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=544278"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}