Appling County Pellets LLC

Appling County Pellets LLC, a Georgia-based biofuel manufacturer, is a prime recipient of federal grants from the Department of Agriculture's Rural Business Cooperative Services under the Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels (CFDA 10.867), with no prime or subcontractor presence on federal contracts.

The company operates as a for-profit partnership or limited liability partnership manufacturing advanced biofuel products in solid, liquid, or gaseous forms derived from renewable biomass sources other than corn kernel starch, intended for use as transportation fuel alternatives. Appling County Pellets LLC has been a registered advanced biofuel producer since 2011 and operates its production facility at 248 Sweetwater Drive, Baxley, Georgia. The company's grant awards are structured as project grants with funding amounts calculated on documented quarterly production volumes converted to British Thermal Unit (BTU) values, supporting the company's continued operations and the nation's renewable energy goals.

The company's federal footprint consists entirely of sixteen grants from a single customer agency — the Department of Agriculture Rural Business Cooperative Services — spanning from 2011 through January 2026. Recent awards include a $195,076.84 project grant awarded on January 22, 2026, an award from April 2, 2024, a May 25, 2023 grant, and a July 1, 2022 grant, with combined obligated dollars of $2.6 million across all sixteen awards. The most recent grant represents one of approximately eighty-five project grants distributed by the Bioenergy Program for Advanced Biofuels between January 22 and February 25, 2026. Activity has remained flat at approximately one award per year, with no recompete cliff exposure or contract-vehicle activity. The company operates solely as a grant prime recipient with no federal contract or subcontractor relationships.