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Future Fuels to build biofuel plant in UK

17 March 2010

Future Fuels LLP has acquired a site and received planning consent for an industrial scale transport biofuel plant in Grimsby, UK.

The bioenergy plant will produce two principal products – a renewable transport fuel (RTF) in the form of ethanol biofuel, and a high protein animal feed, distillers dried grains and Solids (DDGS).

EU and UK directives have indicated that by 2020 13% (estimated at 23 billion litres) of all the Europe’s petrol fuel must come from renewable sources. Currently, just 2 billion litres (or 3.5%) of the Europe’s petrol fuel comes from renewable sources, meaning that the petrol based renewable transport sector is set to grow more than ten-fold in the next decade, Future Fuels says.

FCP is undertaking the project with Vireol, which will operate the completed transport biofuel plant.

 

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