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| BlueFire Ethanol is expanding and rebranding to BlueFire Renewables |
BlueFire Ethanol Fuels, Inc., a company specialized in creating renewable fuels from non-food cellulosic wastes, has announced that the company has changed its name to BlueFire Renewables, Inc. to more clearly illustrate the company's capabilities in renewable energy. BlueFire Renewables will continue to trade as BFRE.OB.
Through its internally designed, and third party developed back-end technologies, BlueFire can produce a wide range of other Biofuels, including Biodiesel, BioJet Fuel, Drop-in Directs, and more. As such, the company feels that the name change and rebranding as a renewable energy company more clearly represents the many applications for which BlueFire's technology can be applied.
As an example, BlueFire has developed relationships with key industry partners, such as Solazyme, Inc., a renewable oil production company and leading algal synthetic biology company that has been testing sugars produced through BlueFire's patented process for compatibility with its renewable oil process to produce the oil cost effectively and at scale.
"BlueFire is more than just an ethanol company. We're happy to at last announce the expansion of our capabilities, and feel that this name captures our spirit for innovation and development of cleaner alternatives to fossil fuels," says Arnold Klann, CEO of BlueFire Renewables, Inc. "Our goal with this name change is to demonstrate the company's potential to vertically integrate our technology into other areas of renewable energy and help us avoid the confusion with traditional ethanol producers."
BlueFire Renewables is also currently in the process of developing two cellulosic ethanol facilities in Lancaster, CA and Fulton, MS. The fully-permitted and shovel-ready Lancaster, CA, facility, BlueFire's first U.S. commercial plant, will use post-sorted cellulosic wastes diverted from Southern California's landfills to produce approximately 3.9 million gallons (14.8 million litres) of fuel-grade ethanol per year.
The company said that it is also in the detailed engineering phase for its second commercial plant in Fulton, MS, which will produce approximately 19 million gallons (72 million litres) of ethanol per year from woody biomass, mill residue, and other cellulosic waste.
BlueFire says that these two planned facilities will create more than 1000 construction jobs and, once in operation, more than 100 new operations and maintenance jobs. This is in addition to the hundreds of jobs created or maintained at equipment vendors and suppliers that will be involved in the company's other projects.
BlueFire Renewables recently announced that the Department of Energy has determined that BlueFire has met the requirements necessary for Phase I completion of the application process for its loan guarantee and that the company has been invited to continue on to Phase II for the financing of their Fulton, MS Project.
