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POET Project LIBERTY

POET Project LIBERTY. March 19, 2009 DOE Biomass Program Integrated Biorefinery Platform Peer Review Open Session James Sturdevant POET, LLC. This presentation does not contain any proprietary, confidential, or otherwise restricted information. Award 1, Cooperative Agreement

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POET Project LIBERTY

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  1. POET Project LIBERTY March 19, 2009 DOE Biomass Program Integrated Biorefinery Platform Peer Review Open Session James Sturdevant POET, LLC This presentation does not contain any proprietary, confidential, or otherwise restricted information

  2. Award 1, Cooperative Agreement Start date – 10/01/07 End date – 3/31/10 Award 2, TIA Start date – 10/01/08 End date – 9/30/14 End-to-end process integration Commercial-scale demonstration facilities Risk of pioneer technologies Overview Timeline Budget Award 1, Cooperative Agreement • $9.6M Tot. Award Budget Award 2, TIA • $193.8M Tot. Est. Cost Total DOE Cost Share: • 40% up to $80M Barriers Addressed Partners NREL Novozymes Numerous equipment companies and others

  3. Project Goals and Objectives Goal: A commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol biorefinery. Objectives: • Integrate cellulosic ethanol technologies with existing corn-based, dry mill ethanol technologies • Implement a sustainable biomass feedstock collection, storage, and delivery system • Maximize alternative energy production and minimize traditional energy usage • Enable replication at other existing or new biorefineries

  4. POET Biorefining – Emmetsburg Emmetsburg, Iowa

  5. Project Goals and Objectives • Project LIBERTY supports the strategic goal of the DOE Integrated Biorefineries Platform: To demonstrate and validate integrated technologies to achieve commercially acceptable performance and cost pro forma targets (DOE OBP MYPP, p. 3-68) • Project LIBERTY addresses demonstration and deployment of the DOE Integrated Biorefineries Agricultural Residue Processing Pathway (DOE OBP MYPP, p. 3-71)

  6. Two Agreements • Cooperative Agreement • Preparation for construction • Risk Mitigation, environmental engineering, feedstock, preliminary engineering • Technology Investment Agreement • Construction and operational reporting • A plant capable of processing a minimum of 700 dry metric tonnes per day of lignocellulose to produce ethanol product • Make a commercially-reasonable decision whether LIBERTY will replicate

  7. TechnicalProgress Environmental Engineering • Key Milestone: A Positive NEPA Determination • Completed documents: • Baseline Report • Proposed Action Report • Scoping Letter • Environmental Assessment • Mitigation Action Plan

  8. TechnicalProgress (Cont’d) Preliminary Engineering • To be based on results from pilot plant, POET Research Center, Scotland, SD • Operations began 11/08 • Lab-scale process works at pilot scale • Making cellulosic ethanol • Material handling is complex • Focus is on reducing costs

  9. TechnicalProgress Feedstock – Corn Cobs and Corn Fiber Requirements • 700 bone dry metric tonnes per day • Cobs from 400,000 - 500,000 acres annually • 34 - 42% of corn acres within 35-mile radius of Emmetsburg Corn Cob Approach • With original equipment manufacturers, determine methods and equipment for cob supply chain • Inform local producers • Evaluate agronomic impacts of corn cob harvesting

  10. Cob Supply Chain P O E T / I S U Farmer / OEM / POET Responsibility Agronomics Collection In-Field Transport, Storage & Logistics P O E T R e s p o n s i b i l i t y Pile Pick-Up & Transportation At-Plant Receiving & Storage Communication & Marketing

  11. Collaborating Agriculture Equipment Manufacturers Fantini

  12. 2007 and 2008 Cob Harvests A total of nearly 13,000 acres Iowa, South Dakota, and Texas 13 equipment manufacturers Three cob harvest methods Excellent farmer feedback Economic data

  13. Inform Local Producers LIBERTY Field Day November 6, 2008 LIBERTY Blastoff Meeting, March 13, 2008

  14. Success Factors • Profitability • Sustainable Feedstock Supply 3. Financing

  15. Challenges • Technical • We are learning much from pilot plant • Sustainable Feedstock Supply • USDA BCAP and other incentives are required • Financing • Federal Loan Guarantee is required • Timeline

  16. Future Work • State Air & Water Permitting • Prepare commercial-scale enzymes (Novozymes) • Preliminary Engineering • Final Engineering • Financing Package

  17. Future Work (Cont’d) Feedstock: • Work to accelerate: • Equipment company “prototype-to-production” process • Farmer adoption • Conduct a pre-commercial cob harvest in 2009 • Continue agronomics studies Corn cobs represent over 5 billion gallons of ethanol

  18. Timeline Award 1 & 2 Overlap Award 2 Construction Award 2 Operations Award 1 CA signed NEPA FONSI TIA signed Construction begins Operation begins Annual Operations Reports DOE selects LIBERTY

  19. Summary Status: We are preparing for construction DOE contracts in place, NEPA hurdle cleared, feedstock work underway, pilot plant operating, preliminary engineering beginning Approach: We are confident in the LIBERTY model Integrate the technology with an existing biorefinery, use a corn crop residue as feedstock, use an established network of grain suppliers Relevance: There will be tremendous payoffs With predicted increases in corn yields and over one billion tons of cellulosic biomass in the U.S.,* the possibilities for ethanol are staggering. If our nation has the resolve, we could almost eliminate our need for fossil fuels for automotive transportation and replace it with a homegrown, environmentally friendly, renewable fuel. * USDA/DOE

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