Community Fuels designed, built and operates a biodiesel production and research facility at the Port of Stockton in Stockton, California. This plant is designed specifically to be capable of processing multiple feedstock materials. Our property is served by two transcontinental railroads (UP and BNSF) and has direct access to the Stockton deepwater shipping channel. The current production capacity of the facility is 10 million gallons per year of biodiesel, with plans in place for a rapid expansion to 60 million gallons per year or more.

Community Fuels is advancing biodiesel projects using cutting edge technology to identify new feedstocks and processes that will make tomorrow’s biodiesel industry more sustainable and cost effective.  These advancements are necessary to expand the role of biodiesel in the U.S. energy portfolio. 

Community Fuels has research and commercialization agreements in place with multiple world-class research institutes in order to access additional expertise and to expedite projects. 

Active projects include Community Fuels’ innovative algal biodiesel project (designed to address key obstacles of commercial-scale biodiesel production from algae) and unique solid catalyst project (anticipated to reduce processing costs associated with alternative feedstocks). 

As front runners of the new clean energy economy, Community Fuels has built one of the largest biodiesel plants in California that utilizes a proprietary process technology that maximizes quality, flexibility and energy efficiency in biodiesel production.

Community Fuels has been featured in over 40 articles, in national television segments and has been a key speaker at dozens of prominent state and national events. 

U.S. Congressman Jerry McNerney wrote in a letter dated October 10, 2007:  “In a time when global warming is of growing concern, I applaud the efforts of Community Fuels to educate fleet managers, farmers, elected officials and consumers about the benefits of biodiesel and renewable fuel use and production.  Biodiesel reduces our dependence on foreign oil, provides jobs in our community and protects our environment.”

As reported in The Record on August 24, 2006, U.S. Secretary of Commerce Carlos Gutierrez stated during his Community Fuels Stockton site tour, “Changing the nation’s enormous appetite for petroleum is not something that can be done with a single new facility or overnight.  Companies like this [Community Fuels] will play a bigger and bigger role in fulfilling our energy needs.”

In a California State Press Release dated August 28, 2007, California State Treasurer Bill Lockyer is quoted as saying “Any step we can take now to fight climate change and reduce our dependence on foreign petroleum is a step in the right direction.  With this project, Community Fuels will benefit our environment, create jobs and boost the local economy, and offer a product increasingly in demand.”