Green Car Congress

FEBRUARY 3, 2011

This project is designed to complement an earlier Mississippi agreement, which requires KiOR to build three plants in Mississippi before 2015. The first plant under that agreement (and the company’s first commercial unit overall) will be located in Columbus, MS and funded by the proceeds of a $75-million loan from the State of Mississippi.

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Green Car Congress

OCTOBER 21, 2013

Sapphire Energy’s “Green Crude Farm” in Columbus, N.M., The company expects to produce 100 barrels of refined algal oil per day by 2015, and to be at commercial-scale production by 2018. Other fuel derived from cellulosic biomass. is an example of the use of this program. In 2011, USDA provided Sapphire Energy a $54.5-million

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Green Car Congress

DECEMBER 10, 2013

Sapphire Energy is now producing crude oil daily from algae biomass cultivated and harvested at the company’s Green Crude Farm, located in Columbus, New Mexico. The company expects to be at commercial demonstration scale in 2015, commercial scale in 2018, and is eventually projected to produce 1 billion gallons per year by 2025.

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