POET Senior Vice President of Science and Technology Mark Stowers will outline POET’s process for commercialization of cellulosic ethanol and a vision for the future of ethanol this week at the F.O. Licht's 3rd Annual Developing and Commercialising Next Generation Biofuels conference in London.

Stowers will speak Thursday, Feb. 11 at 9:30 a.m. GMT at Kingsway Hall Hotel.

POET’s Project LIBERTY is a planned 25-million-gallon-per-year cellulosic ethanol plant in Emmetsburg, Iowa. Construction is scheduled to begin this year on the plant, which will use corn cobs as feedstock. POET has operated a pilot cellulosic ethanol plant in Scotland, S.D. since November 2008.

Project LIBERTY will be co-located with the current POET Biorefining – Emmetsburg grain ethanol plant, making both processes more efficient and cost effective. The model is one look at the potential future for energy production in the United States.

To see a documentary about POET’s pilot cellulosic ethanol plant visit www.poet.com/cellulosedocumentary.htm. Media outlets are welcome to link to the documentary in online coverage. Photos are also available for publication at http://www.poet.com/news/releases.asp.

About POET
POET, the largest ethanol producer in the world, is a leader in biorefining through its efficient, vertically integrated approach to production. The 22-year-old company produces more than 1.54 billion gallons of ethanol annually from 26 production facilities nationwide. POET recently started up a pilot-scale cellulosic ethanol plant, which uses corn cobs as feedstock, and will commercialize the process in Emmetsburg, Iowa. For more information, visit http://www.poet.com.

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