Fulcrum BioEnergy
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.
Index entry only — little beyond a description and a link, and nothing machine-readable enough for an agent to act on without a human reading the site first.
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Why this profile is thin
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.
This is an honest zero, not a gap in our research. Fulcrum BioEnergy does not appear to expose an API, so there is nothing here for us to index and nothing for them to fix.
What we probed
https://www.fulcrumbioenergy.com/→ HTTP 200https://www.fulcrumbioenergy.com/openapi.json→ HTTP 200https://www.fulcrumbioenergy.com/.well-known/agent-card.json→ HTTP 200https://api.github.com/orgs/fulcrum-bioenergy→ HTTP 404https://pypi.org/pypi/fulcrum-bioenergy/json→ HTTP 404https://forgeglobal.com/fulcrum-bioenergy_stock/→ HTTP 403
Kin Score
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Resources
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