Poet to make some U.S. cellulosic ethanol this year

Reuters UK
By Timothy Gardner
Wed Aug 13, 2008 8:34pm BST

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Private U.S. ethanol company Poet on Wednesday said it will begin making a small amount of next generation ethanol later this year using crop waste, a feedstock that could yield the alternative motor fuel without inflating food prices.

Poet, the country's top ethanol producer, has started building a cellulosic ethanol pilot plant in Scotland, South Dakota, that will be added to an existing plant that makes traditional ethanol from corn, CEO Jeff Broin told an ethanol conference on Wednesday.

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