Cellulosic Ethanol

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Project Liberty

Project LIBERTY is expected to be POET's first commercial-scale, cellulosic ethanol plant. Scheduled to begin operations in Iowa in 2013, we anticipate that it will produce 25 million gallons of ethanol per year from corncobs, leaves and husks, provided by farmers in the area around Emmetsburg, Iowa.

The plant will share infrastructure with the adjacent POET Biorefining -- Emmetsburg. Roads, land and other features will be shared, and the co-product from the cellulosic ethanol process will be biogas, enough to power both ethanol plants.

POET plans to expand cellulosic ethanol production within the POET network and license the technology to other ethanol producers. We also plan to work to tweak the technology so that it works for other forms of biomass, like grasses or woodchips. Altogether, POET is working to be involved in the production of 3.5 billion gallons of cellulosic ethanol.