Address:
4575 Weaver Parkway, Suite 100, Warrenville, Illinois 60555
Year Founded:
2006
Company description:
Coskata is a technology leader in the production of alternative fuels and chemicals. Our proprietary process has been demonstrated at significant scale and offers:
• High yields
• Low costs
• Feedstock flexibility
While the technology platform is capable of producing multiple fuels and chemicals from a diverse array of feedstocks, they are initially focused on commercializing our natural gas conversion process.
Natural gas is an attractive feedstock due to its abundant supply and low cost, and they expect to achieve production costs that are significantly lower than competitive approaches to fuels and chemicals production.
Major Investors
General Motors, Total, Khosla Ventures, Blackstone Group, Advanced Technology Ventures, GreatPoint Ventures, Coghill Capital Management, TriplePoint Capital, Globespan Capital Partners, Arancia Industrial, Sumitomo.
3 Top Milestones for 2009‐12
1. In the summer of 2012, Coskata announced its plans to switch its feedstock focus to natural gas at its first commercial facility. “We achieve two major benefits from our move to natural gas: 1) we can achieve superior economics due to natural gas’ abundant supply and historically low price leading not only to favorable economics for the company, but also for consumers; and 2) the capital requirements for a natural gas commercial-scale facility will be significantly less since we do not have to budget for biomass handling or gasification.”
2. In October 2011, Coskata announced that it had demonstrated two years of successful operation at its Semi-Commercial Facility, producing ethanol from both biomass feedstocks and natural gas.
3. In August 2011, Coskata completed its first close of Series D financing, with all major investors from previous rounds participating.
3 Major Milestone Goals for 2013‐15
1. Complete financing for first commercial facility.
2. Broker feedstock and offtake partnerships for commercial facility.
3. Complete construction of first commercial scale natural gas-to-ethanol facility
Business Model:
Owner-operator and technology licensor
Competitive Edge(s):
Coskata’s technology platform offers industry-leading feedstock flexibility, allowing the company to utilize the most cost advantaged domestic feedstock available today, natural gas. Virtually any carbon-containing input materials can be converted to syngas, including natural gas, wood, municipal solid waste, agriculture residues, coal and industrial gases.
“With natural gas prices of $4/mmBtu, we expect to achieve unsubsidized production costs well below that of current transportation fuels such as gasoline, diesel and corn-based ethanol. In fact, even if natural gas prices were to increase to 4 times today’s levels, we would still be competitive with current corn ethanol production costs.
“By utilizing natural gas as a feedstock, not only can we produce transportation fuels at a price that creates value for consumers, we can also build much larger plants, because we will not be limited by availability of biomass within a specific radius. By producing at industrial scale, we can have a material impact on transportation fuel supply in this country.”
Research, or Manufacturing Partnerships or Alliances.
Coskata is a member of the Renewable Fuels Association, the Advanced Ethanol Council, the Advanced Biofuels Association, and the Biotechnology Industry Organization.
Stage:
Coskata unveiled its demonstration scale, integrated biorefinery facility in 2009, and is currently focused on financing and constructing a full-scale, natural gas to ethanol commercial facility.
Company Website
Chief Executive Officer:
William Roe
Business development or sales contact:
Rich Troyer, Chief Business Officer
Project information
Location:Madison, Pennsylvania
Materials or products produced
Ethanol
Year, month in service
Operation began in October of 2009.
Status:
Operated from October 2009 until the Fall of 2011 (over 15,000 operating hours)
Feedstock:
Natural gas, wood chips, and simulated waste materials
Processing technology
Syngas fermentation (involving syngas production, fermentation and separation)
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