--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Proterro
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Who: |
Kef Kasdin, CEO, Proterro, Inc. |
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Proterro is the developer of Protose sugar, a fermentation-ready sugar feedstock that will enable the economical and scalable production of biofuels and chemicals. |
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Proterro was selected by the U.S. Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency – Energy (ARPA-E) to exhibit its technology platform for advancing biofuel production at the Energy Technology Innovation Showcase of the 2011 ARPA-E Energy Innovation Summit. Some 2,000 national leaders, including top researchers, investors, entrepreneurs, corporate executives and government officials, are expected to attend. |
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When: |
Monday, Feb. 28, 2011: 5:00 pm–8:00 pm |
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Tuesday, March 1, 2011: 11:50 am-12:45 pm; 5:45 pm-7:30 pm |
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Where: |
Booth #153 |
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Gaylord National Resort & Convention Center 201 Waterfront Street National Harbor, MD 20745 301-965-4000 |
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Why: |
The biggest barrier to market adoption of biofuels is the high cost of cultivating, harvesting, transporting and processing of feedstock. |
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Recently featured in Biofuels Digest and Ethanol Producer, Proterro could, through its novel, patent-pending biosynthetic process, resolve the feedstock challenge for biofuels by delivering non-agriculture-based, fermentation-ready sugar at a dramatically lower cost than sugarcane, corn or other energy crops. |
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Proterro’s Protose sugar is a fortified sucrose that is a sustainable, inexpensive, geoflexible, fermentation-ready feedstock. It can be used to produce a variety of commercial scale fuels and chemicals through standard industrial fermentation methods. |
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For more information, please visit www.proterro.com |
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Contacts: |
Proterro media contact: Rick Sacks, rick@smartpr.net , 973.467.8728 |
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ARPA-E event contact: Laura Benold, press@techconnect.org , 512-516-9804 |
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Notes: |
Proterro’s investors are Battelle Ventures and Braemar Energy Ventures |
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Proterro and Protose are trademarks of Proterro, Inc. |