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Diageo toasts £65m bioenergy distillery

080820_diageo.jpgGreenbang likes the odd tipple (not before lunchtime, mind) so it’s pleased to see that drinks giant Diageo, which makes the likes of Guinness, Johnnie Walker, Smirnoff and Tanqueray, is to build a £65m state-of-the-art bioenergy facility at Cameronbridge in Fife – Scotland’s largest distillery.Not surprisingly Diageo is raising a toast to the new facility, which it says is the largest single investment in renewable technology by a non-utility company in the UK and that it will reduce annual CO2 emissions at the site by around 56,000 tonnes.How will it do all this? By integrating sustainable technologies, including anaerobic digestion and biomass conversion, on a commercial scale. It will also recover 98 per cent of thermal steam and 80 per cent of electrical power at the distillery.The plans follow two years of research and Diageo has signed a formal agreement with energy management company Dalkia to build the new bioenergy facility. Dalkia will construct the facility over the next two years and it will then transfer to Diageo under a finance lease, while continuing to be managed by Dalkia. Image source : Greenbang.com > Continue.

News selected by Covalence | Region: UK | Company: Diageo| Source: Greenbang

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