The City of San Francisco plans to build a facility to turn its restaurants’ grease into biodiesel fuel.

The new plant will be build at the city’s Oceanside Sewage Treatment Plant and use brown grease collected from the city’s restaurants.  The idea is that the grease can be used to power motor vehicles, sewage treatment plants and the city’s heating and electrical needs.

This plan is similiar to the SFGreasecycle program, which already collects yellow grease-like fryer oil from restaurants to fuel the city’s vehicles, buses and fire trucks.