Pilot Plant
POET's cellulosic ethanol research began where POET began -- at our first plant in Scotland, S.D.
Now home to POET Research Center, our Scotland plant began producing cellulosic ethanol in late 2008. The site is a testing ground for the entire process before scaling it up to a planned 25 million gallons per year at Project LIBERTY.
POET Research Center is also testing an anaerobic digester. We're preparing to use this technology on a commercial scale to power Project LIBERTY and our adjacent grain-based ethanol plant, POET Biorefining - Emmetsburg.
The Scotland plant has an annual production capacity of about 20,000 gallons of cellulosic ethanol, but more importantly, it allows POET to tinker with the process outside of the lab to get a feel for how it works in the real world. That tinkering has helped us drop the cost of cellulosic ethanol from about $4.13 per gallon when we started the pilot plant to less than $3.00 today.
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