California chips in $1 million towards City of San Francisco waste oil biodiesel project

In California. San Francisco Mayor Newsom announced that the city received $1 million from the California Energy Commission to assist with construction expense of the city’s proposed biodiesel refining plant, which would focus on conversion of brown grease (pan scrapings and oil residue from grease traps), versus yellow grease (fryer oil). Mayor Newsom said that the city had 2.5 million gallons of brown grease compared to 1.5 million gallons of yellow grease.

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