Bluefire Ethanol Fuels was invited by the US Department of Energy to participate in its loan guarantee program. BlueFire was recognized for its proposed commercial-scale cellulosic ethanol plant using an array of low-cost feedstocks including landfill waste, in El Sobrante, CA. BlueFire holds the exclusive North American license to employ the Arkenol Process Technology, a patented system that transforms cellulosic waste into usable ethanol.
The USDA recently also offered a $97 million loan guarantee program for an ethanol plant in Hoke County, N.C.; a biodiesel plant near Freeport, Ill.; a wood pellet fuel plant in Appling County, Ga.; and a biodiesel plant in Jasper County, Ill.
In California, BlueFire Ethanol Fuels closed a $15 million financing round to provide working capital and project funds for its 17 Mgy cellulosic ethanol project in Southern California.
In the fina...
In Louisiana, Sustainable Fuels has received $4 million in loan guarantee support from the USDA for their 5 Mgy multi-feedstock biodiesel plant using waste grease and landfill material. The project wi...
In California, BlueFire Ethanol has reached the final permitting stages for its ethanol plant in Lancaster that will use garden, wood waste and unrecyclable paper as feedstocks. The 3 Mgy plant will b...
In California, BlueFire Ethanol described for shareholders, in its annual letter, the delays in its BlueFire Ethanol Lancaster project, but confirmed that the BlueFire Mecca project is still on schedu...
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels is ready to break ground by April on its 3.1 Mgy waste-to-ethanol plant near Lancaster, California. The company is awaiting its air permit before commencing construction, after ...
In California, Global Fuels announced a 55 Mgy grain ethanol plant that would ultimately be expanded to a multi-feedstock 220 Mgy. The plant would be constructed near Mojave in Kern County. The pr...