Blue Ridge Biofuels business on the uptick; company adds one employee

From Blue Ridge Biofuels newsletter:

There are signs of a growing interest in biofuels both locally and nationally. The Land of Sky Regional Council is working on a Clean Cities Designation from the US Department of Energy, and a few of our restaurant clients recently received Green Restaurant Certification from the Green Restaurant Association.

Though Congress failed to pass the $1 per gallon tax credit at the end of December 2011, the Environmental Protection Agency did issue a final rule establishing 2012 Renewable Volume Obligations (RVO) at 1 billion gallons- an increase of 200 million gallons from last year.

We have had tremendous success through the Cooking Oil Recycling Program, having already collected over 200 gallons of used cooking oil from Buncombe County residents, and this was only with a third of the bins we will have placed by the spring. In all, we collected over 1200 gallons in the last quarter from all our public bins in Western North Carolina. As a result, Blue Ridge Biofuels’ business is growing! We have hired an additional employee this month and plan to contuinue to increase our staff this spring. All of this would have not been possible without your support.

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