Voting opens for the 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy, 30 Hottest Companies in Renewable Chemicals and Biobased Materials
Jim Lane, Biofuels Digest
The annual rankings competition opens up for the hottest companies in the sector; who will be #1 – who will get your vote?
New annual Biofuels Databook published for selectors; voting by Twitter introduced this year.
In Florida, Biofuels Digest announced the official opening of voting for the 2012-13 50 Hottest Companies in Bioenergy for 2012-13, and 30 Hottest Companies in Renewable Chemicals and Biomaterials.
Selector voting is open to all registered subscribers of Biofuels Digest and Biobased Digest and invited selectors; this year, votes may also be cast via Twitter.
This year, votes will be weighted as follows: 45% based on votes received from the invited Panel of International Selectors; 45% based on votes received from registered subscribers of Biofuels Digest and Biobased Digest, and 10% based on votes received via Twitter.
Announcement of results at Advanced Biofuels Markets
Voting will continue through Thursday October 18, 2012 – and rankings will be announced on October 29, 2012 at 5pm ET, at the annual Advanced Biofuels Markets industry conference in San Francisco, followed immediately by a reception to honor the ranked companies.
Selector balloting
Selectors will receive their official ballots from Biofuels Digest during the week of September 17th, and must return them via email no later than 5pm ET, October 18, 2012. Selectors may cast one ballot in each each ranking competition (Hot 30 and Hot 50).
Subscriber balloting
Subscribers will receive a link to their official ballot in each e-mail newsletter issue of Biofuels Digest and Biobased Digest published between September 20, 2012 and October 18, 2012. Subscribers may cast one ballot in each each ranking competition (Hot 30 and Hot 50).
Twitter balloting
Twitter voting is open to all readers – to vote via Twitter, voters do not have to be subscribers to the Digest, and may cast a vote for the company of their choice by tweeting #bdigest Hot50 http://bit.ly/S93oFp (name of company) for a Hot 50 vote, or #bdigest Hot30 http://bit.ly/S93oFp (name of company) for a Hot 30 vote. The remaining available characters in a tweet may be used in any way the voter wishes.
For example, “#bdigest Hot50 http://bit.ly/S93oFp John Doe Bioenergy is one-super hot company” is a valid ballot, but “#bdigest John Doe Bioenergy” is not (because it did not indicate a Hot50 or Hot30 vote). The #bdigest hashtag is required for us to track your vote – the bit.ly link will provide your followers with information about the Rankings.
One vote per day may be cast for any given company via a given Twitter account (but, for example, a voter may cast 10 different votes for 10 different companies, in one day).
Write-in votes
All companies that registered for the Hot 50 and Hot 30 Rankings are included in the Official Ballot, but if there is a deserving company that did not register for the Official Ballot, voters are welcome to cast a write-in vote for that company.
Official Selector Databook
Invited Selectors and Digest subscribers may receive a free download of the 309-page official Biofuels Databook, containing company, product and project profiles and a wealth of industry data.
The Databook details company overviews, company milestones, key future goals, key staff, descriptions of feedstocks, processing technologies, target molecules, and more.
The Data Book also includes all past rankings for the Hot 50, Hot 30, the 40 Hottest Partners in Bioenergy, and the Top 100 in Bioenergy. Links for downloading the Databook will be carried in every issue of the Biofuels Digest and Biobased Digest newsletters between now and October 29, 2012.
Voting criteria
Voters may judge for themselves what makes a company “hot”.
In our view, we believe that “hot” represents an ideal blend of visibility and credibility. Companies that are substantive but unknown may be credible, but they are not hot. Likewise, companies that are widely-known but hyped are visible, but not hot. Hot is not the same as “best” – nor is it the same as “popular” – and the Rankings are neither intended to be a popularity contest nor a quality rating system.
