The Illinois Clean Fuels project represents a revolutionary advance in US alternative fuels production.

This project represents a large scale "bridge solution" to our growing fuel supply problems. By utilizing both coal and biomass feedstocks for the production of ultra-clean diesel and jet fuels, this project will help our economy transition away from oil to new clean transportation fuel sources, and cleanly leverages our remaining fossil fuel reserves (coal) to deploy an economically viable, efficient, and sustainable new feedstock source (biomass) capable of carrying our economy cleanly and reliably into the future.

Location: Douglas, Edgar, and Coles Counties, Illinois near the town of Oakland

Plant type:  Biomass & Coal to Liquids + Carbon Capture and Sequestration(BCTL+CCS) and associated coal mine. Synthetic fuels production via Gasification and Fischer-Tropsch conversion.

Output: The facility will convert approximately 4,300,000 tons per year of Illinois coal sourced from a new mine and biomass sourced from waste or agricultural sources, into approximately 400,000,000 gallons per year of ultra-clean synthetic diesel fuel and jet fuel.

Project Vision:

• To cleanly produce high-value ultra-clean synthetic fuels from low value biomass & coal.
• Create clean and competitive new uses for our plentiful coal reserves by deploying innovative new commercial technology, and simultaneously create an entirely new market for underutilized waste biomass sources and new high-yielding bioenergy crops.
•  To reduce the United States dependency on foreign oil imports. 
• Stimulate the economy of the region and state, and create 600 family-wage jobs, by reviving the coal industry and helping to create an entirely new manufacturing industry.
• To design and manage operations in a way that cares for and protects the environment, and creates a path to true sustainability while enhancing the economy.

Economic Benefits:
The project will have very positive impacts on the local community, the State of Illinois and the United States. 

Between the mines and the plant, we expect that this development will directly create at least 600 new permanent full-time family-wage jobs, with many more jobs being created in the local area to support those positions.

Reducing U.S. fuel imports by offsetting them with the plant’s production will improve the U.S. balance of trade by over $1 Billion/year and reduce our dependence on foreign oil imports.

Environmental Performance:  
This Plant will use a proven gasification technology that generates extremely low emissions. Typical coal-associated pollutants are captured and converted to saleable products.                   

Fischer-Tropsh diesel is virtually sulfur-free, non-toxic, and biodegradable.

FT Diesel produces substantially lower tailpipe emissions, with equal performance, and full compatibility with all existing engines, no modifications required.

More on how we care for the environment: http://www.cleancoalfuels.com/cleancoalfuels_environmental.html

Development Timeline
We have set a goal of having the facility operational by late 2013.

Bringing this timely project to a successful conclusion will require strong collaboration with and among leaders at the State of Illinois, in Douglas, Edgar, and Coles counties, in the local communities that will be our neighbors, and with the industry partners that we will work with throughout the development of this project. We look forward to working closely with everyone to execute this innovative project in a clean, safe, and mutually beneficial manner.