Industrial Biotechnology:Securing a Sustainable Energy Future

Biotechnology Industry OrganizationIndustrial and Environmental SectionAmy EhlersApril 28, 2008

What is BIO?

Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO)

Trade association based in Washington, D.C.

Over 1,100 member companies

Members in U.S. and 31 other countries

BIO

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Environmental

What is Industrial Biotechnology?

Application of life sciences to traditional manufacturing and chemical synthesis

Using micro-organisms (bacteria, fungi) and enzymes (specialty proteins) to improve manufacturing processes

Make new “biobased” products and materials (including fuels) from renewable feedstocks

Some Industrial and Environmental Section Members

BIO Breadth of Technology

Technology Providers

Diversa, Dyadic, Novozymes, Genencor, Codexis

Agriculture/Food Industry

Cargill, Tate & Lyle, Bunge, Ceres, Mendel

Chemicals Industry

DuPont, Dow, DSM, Rohm & Haas, BASF

Biomaterials/Bioplastics Industry

NatureWorks, Metabolix

Biofuels Industry

Abengoa Bioenergy, Blue Sun Biodiesel, Poet, Verenium, Sun Opta, Iogen, BP, Chevron

Advanced biofuels

DuPont, LS9, Amyris, Gevo

Biofuels

Transforming the transportation fuels industry

Biotechnology is a Key Enabling Technology

Industrial biotech is enabling a biofuels revolution that involves processing new feedstocks for fuel production that will move use beyond conventional corn ethanol production

Ag biotech is improving existing crops and developing new dedicated energy crops as biorefinery feedstocks

Farm Legislation

House and Senate both passed farm bill legislation in 2007, H.R. 2419Both versions contain an energy title with strong support for dedicated energy crops, advanced biofuels and biobased products Farm Bill conference announced for Monday PM - April 28

Senate Farm Bill (Food and Energy Security Act)

$1.25 cellulosic biofuels production tax incentive

“BioPreferred” program includes chemical intermediates

Bioenergy Crop Transition Assistance Program

$422M in grants and loan guarantees for pilot, demonstration, and commercial-scale biorefineries

$345M to help biorefineries purchase feedstocks for advanced biofuels production

Increases mandatory funding for Biomass R&D Program

House Farm Bill (Farm, Nutrition and Bioenergy Act)

Contains most of the key provisions in the Senate version –many at even higher funding levels – but does not include the cellulosic tax credits

Farm Legislation

Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007

Increased Renewable Fuels Standard (RFS)Biofuels research and development

Increases funding for existing biomass R&D program (which includes DOE biorefinery demonstration grants) by 50% and extends through 2010Increases DOE Bioenergy Research Centers from 3 to 7

Biofuels infrastructureProvides renewable fuel pump installation grants and pilot projectsMandates a study of ethanol pipeline feasibility, another on the adequacy of rail network, and a third on distribution of advanced biofuels

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Biomass and Biorefinery Systems R&D Program (DOE EERE)Critical in drastically reducing the cost of cellulosic ethanol processing

Loan Guarantee Program for Cellulosic Ethanol (Title XVII of 2005 EPAct)

Facilitate the construction of facilities to produce fuel ethanol from cellulosic biomass

Genomes to Life (GTL) Bioethanol Research Program – Biological and Environmental Research Programs (Office of Science)GTL Bioenergy Research Centers – Biological and Environmental Research Programs (Office of Science)Grants for Production of Advanced Biofuels (Section 161 of EISA of 2007)

Geographic, Feedstock, and Technology Diversity

Major DOE Biofuels Project Locations

Future

What does the future of Industrial Biotechnology hold?

Beyond Ethanol: Longer Chain Alcohols and Hydrocarbons

Using microbes and rapid enzymatic pathway construction techniques to build new microorganisms that can of produce higher value compounds for use as transportation fuels

Amyris

Gasoline substitute - contains more energy than ethanol, lower cost, less polluting, and is fully compatible with infrastructure

LS9

“Domestic, sustainable, cost-effective, and compatible with existing systems; it's just what the Earth ordered”

Gevo

butanol, iso-butanol

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Bio-Based Economy

Eventually the industry will grow to provide multiple products from renewable feedstocks on one production site, building a biobased economy, instead of a petroleum-based economy

Economical and efficient

Rural Growth

Minimize infrastructure

Lower environmental impact