# Fulcrum BioEnergy

**Canonical:** https://apis.io/providers/fulcrum-bioenergy/  
**APIs profiled:** 0

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.

## Kin Score — 3.9 / 100 (minimal)

Scored 2026-08-17 under rubric 0.11.0.

| Facet | Score |
|---|---|
| Discoverability | 46.3 |
| Contract Quality | 0.0 |
| Governance | 0.0 |
| Operational Transparency | 0.0 |
| Developer Ergonomics | 0.0 |
| Commercial Clarity | 0.0 |

Regulatory layer — **Energy & Utilities**: 0.0 (matched via tags).

## Agent readiness — 0.0 (human-only)

| Dimension | Value |
|---|---|
| Spec Presence | no |
| Agentic Access | no |
| MCP Server | no |
| Auth Clarity | no |
| Idempotency | no |
| Error Semantics | no |
| OpenAPI Examples | no |
| Rate Limit Signal | no |
| Event Surface Described | no |
| Agent Skills | no |
| Well Known Catalog | no |
| Consent Identity | no |
| Agent Card | no |
| Dry Run Mode | no |

## Tags

Company, Defunct, Energy, Biofuels, Sustainable Aviation Fuel, Renewable Fuels, Waste to Energy, Waste Management, Cleantech, Industrial, Manufacturing

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Profiled by [API Evangelist](https://apievangelist.com) and published on [APIs.io](https://apis.io/providers/fulcrum-bioenergy/). Scores are computed from the provider's own public artifacts under a published rubric.