(Waste Management World) Celtic Renewables has secured planning permission from Falkirk Council to build a commercial demonstrator plant, which will produce over half a million litres of biofuel each year from whiskey wastes.
Scottish biofuel start-up, Celtic Renewables Ltd, has secured planning permission from Falkirk Council to build a commercial demonstrator plant, which will produce over half a million litres of biofuel each year from whiskey wastes.
The company has established a new PLC – Celtic Renewables Grangemouth PLC – specifically to deliver this plant in Grangemouth and has now launched a funding campaign seeking to raise £5.25 million through an ISA eligible investment with p2p investment platform, Abundance Investment.
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Working with Tullibardine Distillery in Perthshire, Celtic Renewables said that it is recovering value from the production residues of the Malt Whisky industry in Scotland which currently produces almost 750,000 tonnes of draff and 2 billion litres of pot ale by converting it into much-needed advanced biofuel and other high value low carbon products.
Based in Grangemouth, the two-acre site will produce Biobutanol, the new advanced and sustainable biofuel made using whisky residue that is a direct replacement for petrol and diesel. The resulting fuel was used for the first time in a car in July this year.
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With news that the plant will create 25 jobs in the local area, Councillor Cecil Meiklejohn, Leader of Falkirk Council commented: “The new Celtic Renewables Grangemouth commercial demonstrator plant is great news for the local economy.” READ MORE includes VIDEO