overview the vision pipeline & platform brazil: proof of concept going global what’s next 2
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Overview
• The Vision• Pipeline & Platform• Brazil: Proof of Concept• Going Global• What’s Next
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NexSteppe Vision
Be a leading provider of scalable, reliable and sustainable feedstock
solutions for the biofuels, biopower and biobased
product industries
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The Big Picture
Biobased Products &
Advanced Biofuels
Sweet Sorghum Fermentable Sugars
Biomass Sorghum Biomass
Biopower &
Cellulosic Biofuels
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Why a Dedicated Crop?
• Reliable, scalable supply
• Production cost, not volatile market price
• Reduced acreage requirement
• Better biomass quality
Collection Radius for 500K tons
4 tons/hectare
25 tons/
hectare 38 km15 km
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Why Sorghum?
• For the grower…– High-yielding– Harvest in 3-4 months– Can be rotated with other crops– Established agronomic systems
• For the processor/project developer…– Drop-in – Broad geographic adaptation – Heat and drought tolerant
• For the seed company…– Huge genetic diversity– Rapid breeding and product development cycle– Fast scale-up– Established hybrid systems– Seed propagated
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The Pipeline
>15,000 lines
screened; hundreds of
breeding populations
created
>4000 lines selected from
breeding populations
and in development
>2,500 hybrids in screening
trials
>100 hybrids in registration
18 hybrids commercialize
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Our Technology Platform
Germplasm & Breeding
Chemistry & Composition
Unique knowledge of impact of composition on downstream processing and resulting ability to develop process-optimized products
Industry leading diversity and quality of germplasm collection
Proprietary data management system linking information and providing insight to breeding program
World-class marker-assisted breeding program to enhance product improvement efficiency
Agronomy
NexSys
Focus on developing optimized crop management practices
Genetic Markers
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Energy Demand Is Increasing And Hydro Is Not Keeping Up
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NuclearBiomassFossilHydro
Biomass and fossil fuels are making up the difference
Bkwh
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Biomass Power in Brazil
•12GW installed biomass power capacity, projected to double by 2021
•170 of 389 mills now connected to the grid; plus >300 additional biomass plants
•At grid-connected mills, electricity is providing a large share of profits
•Biomass prices rising with increasing demand
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Palo Alto Biomass Sorghum
Annual biomass crop
Reaches maturity in ~120 days
High yield
Low moisture at harvest
High lignocellulosic content
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NexSteppe Works Closely With Many of the Leading Companies in the Biobased Economy
Investors Customers
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Commercial Seed Shipping to Customers
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Palo Alto in Texas
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Palo Alto in Brazil
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2014 Field Day
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Commercial Harvest
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Transportation
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Demand from Around the World
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What’s Next
• Continued growth in Brazil
• Increasingly global footprint
• New products in the pipeline– Continued yield increases and
optimization of composition for different end-uses
– Increasing range of maturities to maximize just-in-time harvest window in a range of geographies and cropping systems
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