Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc. was a Pleasanton, California waste-to-fuels project developer founded in 2007 that converted municipal solid waste into synthetic crude oil for refining into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and diesel, using a shred-and-sort feedstock line feeding a gasifier and a Fischer-Tropsch conversion train. Its first and only commercial plant, the Sierra BioFuels Plant in the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center outside Reno, Nevada, was designed to take roughly 175,000-219,000 tons of household garbage a year from an adjacent feedstock processing facility and began production in late 2022. The company raised on the order of a billion dollars in equity, debt and government support over its life, including strategic investments and offtake alliances with United Airlines, Waste Management, Cathay Pacific Airways, Marubeni and bp, plus a US Department of Energy loan guarantee, USDA loan guarantee and Department of Defense grants; E. James Macias led it as president and CEO through its build-out years, and it had announced follow-on projects including a Gary, Indiana plant and the NorthPoint facility in the UK. The Sierra plant stopped operating in mid-May 2024 after persistent equipment problems, the company laid off essentially its entire workforce and took its website down, and on 2024-09-09 Fulcrum BioEnergy, Fulcrum Sierra Holdings and Fulcrum Sierra Finance Co. filed voluntary Chapter 11 petitions in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware listing more than $456 million owed to over 200 creditors. A November 2024 auction sold the biorefinery to Switch, Ltd. for $55 million and the adjacent feedstock processing facility to Refuse Inc., a WM subsidiary; the plan of liquidation was confirmed in April 2025 and went effective in May 2025. Fulcrum was an industrial energy project developer rather than a software company and never published a developer program, public API, SDK, webhook surface, or machine-readable specification — a Wayback index of its corporate site from 2008 through 2024 turns up no developer, reference, or spec path of any kind. Its corporate host fulcrum-bioenergy.com no longer resolves to any web server, and the alternate registration fulcrumbioenergy.com is parked on the GoDaddy/Afternic aftermarket and listed for sale. This profile is retained as a historical record; there is no API surface to enrich.
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aid: fulcrum-bioenergy
name: Fulcrum BioEnergy
description: Fulcrum BioEnergy, Inc. was a Pleasanton, California waste-to-fuels project developer founded in 2007 that converted
municipal solid waste into synthetic crude oil for refining into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) and diesel, using a shred-and-sort
feedstock line feeding a gasifier and a Fischer-Tropsch conversion train. Its first and only commercial plant, the Sierra
BioFuels Plant in the Tahoe Reno Industrial Center outside Reno, Nevada, was designed to take roughly 175,000-219,000 tons
of household garbage a year from an adjacent feedstock processing facility and began production in late 2022. The company
raised on the order of a billion dollars in equity, debt and government support over its life, including strategic investments
and offtake alliances with United Airlines, Waste Management, Cathay Pacific Airways, Marubeni and bp, plus a US Department
of Energy loan guarantee, USDA loan guarantee and Department of Defense grants; E. James Macias led it as president and
CEO through its build-out years, and it had announced follow-on projects including a Gary, Indiana plant and the NorthPoint
facility in the UK. The Sierra plant stopped operating in mid-May 2024 after persistent equipment problems, the company
laid off essentially its entire workforce and took its website down, and on 2024-09-09 Fulcrum BioEnergy, Fulcrum Sierra
Holdings and Fulcrum Sierra Finance Co. filed voluntary Chapter 11 petitions in the US Bankruptcy Court for the District
of Delaware listing more than $456 million owed to over 200 creditors. A November 2024 auction sold the biorefinery to Switch,
Ltd. for $55 million and the adjacent feedstock processing facility to Refuse Inc., a WM subsidiary; the plan of liquidation
was confirmed in April 2025 and went effective in May 2025. Fulcrum was an industrial energy project developer rather than
a software company and never published a developer program, public API, SDK, webhook surface, or machine-readable specification
— a Wayback index of its corporate site from 2008 through 2024 turns up no developer, reference, or spec path of any kind.
Its corporate host fulcrum-bioenergy.com no longer resolves to any web server, and the alternate registration fulcrumbioenergy.com
is parked on the GoDaddy/Afternic aftermarket and listed for sale. This profile is retained as a historical record; there
is no API surface to enrich.
url: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/api-evangelist/fulcrum-bioenergy/refs/heads/main/apis.yml
x-type: company
x-source: harvest:secondary-market
x-tier: stub
x-tier-reason: defunct-no-api-surface
x-status: defunct
x-founded: '2007'
x-headquarters: Pleasanton, California, United States
x-bankruptcy-filed: '2024-09-09'
x-shutdown-date: '2025-05-01'
x-shutdown-note: Sierra BioFuels Plant ceased operation mid-May 2024; Chapter 11 filed 2024-09-09 in the District of Delaware
with $456M+ in obligations; assets auctioned November 2024 (Switch, Ltd. took the biorefinery for $55M, Refuse Inc./WM took
the feedstock facility); plan of liquidation confirmed April 2025 and effective May 2025.
x-domain-status: offline
x-domain-note: fulcrum-bioenergy.com (registered 2007-04-03, renewed to 2034) still has an Azure DNS zone with MX and SPF
records but NO A or AAAA record, so no HTTP request to it can connect. The separate registration fulcrumbioenergy.com (2017)
is parked on GoDaddy/Afternic, is listed for sale, and answers HTTP 200 with the same 114-byte HTML redirect stub on EVERY
path including all /.well-known/* and spec paths — including a well-formed llms.txt that describes the DOMAIN SALE, not
the company. Those 200s are not documents. Neither host is wired as a Website pointer. See well-known/fulcrum-bioenergy-well-known.yml.
x-disambiguation: NOT related to Fulcrum / fulcrumapp (Spatial Networks), the mobile field-data-collection company that publishes
an OpenAPI, JavaScript/Python/Ruby SDKs and docs.fulcrumapp.com. Same first word, different company. Never attribute that
API surface to this profile.
deliveryModel:
model: unknown
open_source: false
commercial: false
callable_host: false
label: Delivery model not determined — needs a product licence on record
confidence: low
source:
- none
generated: '2026-08-28'
method: derived
specificationVersion: '0.23'
created: '2026-08-16'
modified: '2026-08-16'
tags:
- Company
- Defunct
- Energy
- Biofuels
- Sustainable Aviation Fuel
- Renewable Fuels
- Waste-to-Energy
- Waste Management
- Cleantech
- Industrial
- Manufacturing
tags_raw:
- Company
- Defunct
- Energy
- Biofuels
- Sustainable Aviation Fuel
- Renewable Fuels
- Waste to Energy
- Waste Management
- Cleantech
- Industrial
- Manufacturing
apis: []
maintainers:
- FN: Kin Lane
email: kin@apievangelist.com
- FN: APIs.json
email: info@apis.io
common:
- type: Listing
url: https://forgeglobal.com/fulcrum-bioenergy_stock/
name: Forge Global secondary-market listing (harvest source, not a company website)
x-coverage:
state: none
reason: defunct
detail: Fulcrum BioEnergy was a waste-to-SAF plant developer, not a software company; it shut the Sierra BioFuels Plant
in May 2024, filed Chapter 11 that September and completed liquidation in May 2025, and today its corporate domain fulcrum-bioenergy.com
has no A record at all while the alternate fulcrumbioenergy.com is a GoDaddy for-sale lander that returns the same 114-byte
HTML stub with HTTP 200 on every path, including /openapi.json and every /.well-known/ path.
evidence:
- url: https://www.fulcrumbioenergy.com/
status: 200
- url: https://www.fulcrumbioenergy.com/openapi.json
status: 200
- url: https://www.fulcrumbioenergy.com/.well-known/agent-card.json
status: 200
- url: https://api.github.com/orgs/fulcrum-bioenergy
status: 404
- url: https://pypi.org/pypi/fulcrum-bioenergy/json
status: 404
- url: https://forgeglobal.com/fulcrum-bioenergy_stock/
status: 403
checked: '2026-08-16'
x-enrichment:
date: '2026-08-16'
status: nochange
artifacts_added: 1
pass: local-v1
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