Biorenewable Insights (BI)

Technology & Costs

Biorenewable Insights builds on our well established TECH program, providing in-depth evaluations and reliable data on the technology, cost competitiveness, carbon intensity and business developments of biorenewable chemicals and fuels.  

Biorenewable Insights was created in response to the increasing activity in this industry segment, including entrances and exits of players, emergence and commercialization of new technologies, feedstocks, product types, as well as growing interest from companies in the oil, chemical, financial and other sectors.

In addition to providing technology descriptions and cost of production models for biorenewables, the program provides additional insights with comprehensive project-by-project capacity analysis and implications for the conventional industry. The creation of the Biorenewable Insights program allows TECH to focus on developments within the broader and energy and chemical industry, as it was designed, allowing for a more focused analysis on biorenewables.  

Biorenewable Insight reports typically cover:

  • Technology Descriptions

    • Chemistry

    • Process flow diagrams and descriptions

    • Company profiles

  • Capacity Analysis

    • Announced projects

    • Project-by-project analysis

    • Risk-adjusted project capacity

  • Biorenewable Process Economics

    • Multi-regional cost of production estimates

    • Comparison to the conventional technology

  • Implications for the conventional industry

    • Upstream and downstream implications

    • Scales and market sizes

    • Cost, price, margins, and return

  • Plant-gate Carbon Intensity (CI)

    • Multi-regional CI estimates

    • Comparison to the conventional technology

    • Scope 1, 2 and 3 (upstream) 

    • Bioethylene

    • Biomass Gasification

    • Biomass Pyrolysis

    • Biomethane

    • Biomethanol

    • e-Ammonia

    • e-Methanol

    • e-SAF

    • Organic Acids

    • PHAs

    • Bio-Lubes

    • Biocarbon Sequestration: BiCRS and BECCS

    • Butadiene

    • CO2 Electrolysis

    • Ethanol to Jet

    • Fischer–Tropsch (FT) Process

    • Green Tires

    • Methanol to Gasoline

    • Methanol to Jet

    • Syngas Fermentation

    • Algae Technology

    • Bio-Polyols for Polymers

    • Bio-Propylene

    • Ethanol

    • Low CI Marine Fuels

    • Renewable DME

    • Renewable Ethylene, EO, and MEG

    • Renewable Power to Liquids: e-Chemicals

    • Renewable Power to Liquids: Transportation Fuels

    • Sustainable Fertilizers

    • Bio-Aromatics

    • Bio-Surfactants

    • Conventional Carbohydrate Feedstocks

    • Green Hydrogen

    • Green Solvents

    • Hydrotreated Vegetable Oil (HVO)

    • Natural Oil Feedstocks

    • Polylactic Acid (PLA)

    • Renewable Ammonia

    • Renewable Natural Gas

    • Biobased Polycarbonates

    • Biocomposites

    • Biodegradable Polymers

    • Biomass Pyrolysis

    • Biomethanol as a Platform Chemical

    • Bio-Polyamides

    • Cellulosic Feedstocks

    • Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) as a Sustainable Feedstock

    • Natural Rubber

    • Sustainable Aviation Fuels (SAF)