• CERAWEEK 2025 | March 10-14, 2025
  • CERAWEEK
  • March 10 - 14, 2025

Shailesh Sahay

POET, LLC

Senior Regulatory Counsel

Mr. Sahay is Senior Regulatory Counsel at POET, LLC, the world’s largest biofuels producer. He takes pride in POET’s mission to be good stewards of the Earth by converting renewable resources to energy and other valuable goods as effectively as humanly possible. At POET, Mr. Sahay has led some of the largest regulatory and litigation initiatives affecting the biofuels industry, including the development of the recent EPA rulemaking enabling year-round E15 sales, defense of the Renewable Fuel Standards, and elimination of European tariffs on American ethanol. He also leads the company’s legal work in several other areas, such as regulatory compliance and international trade. Mr. Sahay serves in leadership positions for trade associations and non-profits, including as a Board Member and Secretary of the Low Carbon Fuels Coalition and on the Leadership Council of the Environmental Law Institute. He has a J.D. from Harvard Law School, and an A.B. in Earth and Planetary Sciences from Harvard College.

Sessions With Shailesh Sahay

Monday, 9 March

  • 02:00pm - 02:50pm (CST) / -

    Next Generation Biofuels
    Downstream, Midstream & Chemicals

    Next-generation biofuels continue to be the holy grail of the renewables sector. Despite broad political support for producing transportation fuels and reducing GHG by using waste products, progress has been patchy, and today there is still no large-scale plant in operation. Recently, the outlook for the sector has improved as Asian companies join the well-established market players in Europe and the Americas. What is the current state of play in NextGen biofuels? What are the stumbling blocks to market maturity? What will drive growth in the future? Can NextGen’s life cycle and economics beat conventional biofuels’?