BDC was originally founded in 2006 as “Biorefinery Deployment Collaborative” by CleanTech Partners, Inc, a Wisconsin-based organization that helps commercialize energy saving and renewable energy technologies. In 2006, the regional organization in the Lake States was formed as a way to share information and educate about the early stages of bioprocesses and about specific projects funded by DOE for thermal conversion of wood to biofuels in two integrated pulp mills in Wisconsin.

It was decided in 2010 to expand the organization to a national organization and the name was changed to “Bioenergy Deployment Consortium” to inflect the broader area of bioenergy and more accurately reflect the needs of our members. It was also decided to become a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization. Soon after, it was recognized that the name "Bioenergy" did not cover all that BDC promoted, and the term "Bioproducts" to describe the products that BDC promoted.

In 2015, recognizing a need to have the name that better reflected the breadth of focus of BDC, a decision was made to change the name of the organization again. "BDC" had become the identity of the organization, and not wanting to lose its value, the name "Biorenewable Deployment Consortium" was chosen and the logo was changed to reflect the name change.

In 2021, BDC transitioned from a 501(c)(3) non-profit to a for-profit LLC entity to better serve its members.  While the mission of deploying commercially viable technologies without long-term subsidy has not changed, the organizational change provided more opportunity to assist its members in deployment; allowing BDC to lobby for good policy in order to remove barriers to deployment as well as to improve opportunities to get funding for early projects through state, federal, and private means.  Our goal is to help accelerate the deployment of commercially viable technologies and thus help the forest products industry become more profitable and sustainable.

Initially the membership consisted of a regional group of partnering companies, but now BDC has grown to include a more diverse group of nearly 70 organizations and the membership has become international.  Members include manufacturers, suppliers of technology, government agencies, and selected academic institutions.

BDC continues to focus on helping our member companies accelerate the deployment of commercially viable technologies and helping the forest products industry become more profitable and sustainable. BDC will also continue to provide education through its annual forum events, screening of articles of interest, and valuable webinars as resources to our members.  However, a large portion of BDC's effort is on brokering partnerships to help get economic bio-processes deployed and proven.