Greenergy
Montag, 4 Januar 2010
“Greenergy has selected the Humber region for its biodiesel production facilities as it is ideally situated to sell our output into the two world scale refineries located here. It also combines the benefits of a deep sea port, allowing us to move product in and out, access to a local market and of course it allows us to source feedstock from the nationally important farming district that surrounds the port.” Andrew Owens, Chief Executive, Greenergy.
Greenergy is a leading player in the biofuel industry, supporting the UK’s Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation requiring all road fuels to have a five per cent biofuel component by 2010. Greenergy supplies approximately a third of the biodiesel used around the country to forecourt and fleet operators.
Greenergy has invested in the Humber region, establishing two world class biodiesel processing facilities located at the Port of Immingham. The first plant was opened in March 2007 and the second in May 2008. Combined, the two plants produce 200,000 tonnes/228 million litres of biodiesel a year.
Both biodiesel plants are located on a brown-field site at Immingham West Terminal which has existing sea, rail and road access as well as pipeline links to local petroleum oil refineries. Its sea-fed location enables effective logistics and trading with the UK and European vegetable oil and biodiesel markets as well as the wider world vegetable oil markets. Greenergy also conduct significant biodiesel blending operations in the port of Rotterdam.
The plants are capable of using a variety of feedstocks including rapeseed, soy and waste cooking oils. A mix of different feedstocks is used to get the best balance of quality, price, carbon and environmental impact to meet individual customer requirements.
Rapeseed is a key feedstock for Greenergy biodiesel production and the fact that it is sourced locally is obviously an advantage. Cargill, which has seed crushing facilities in Hull, is an investor in the biodiesel plant and rape oil crushed in Hull can easily be transported by barge across the estuary.
Cargill has been working with Greenergy to manage the supply of rapeseed - and to provide the crush facilities for its conversion into oil for biodiesel production.
The day to day management of the plant is operated by PX Limited which is also based at the Immingham West Terminal.