Britain Opens First Bioethanol Plant
Reuters:
Britain’s first bioethanol plant was officially opened on Thursday, hailed by officials as a major turning point in the reduction of carbon emissions in the UK transport system.
The plant, which started operations in September, produces 70 million liters of ethanol biofuel a year from locally grown sugar beet processed at Associated British Foods’ British Sugar plant in Wissington, eastern England.
“This is the beginning of a new industry,” Sustainable Food and Farming Minister Jeff Rooker told the opening ceremony.
Officials said the biofuel produced at Wissington was equivalent to taking 35,000 to 40,000 cars off the roads in the UK in terms of their carbon emissions.
Introducing a target 5% of bioethanol into all UK petrol would be the equivalent of taking 1 million cars off the roads in Britain, they added.
The bioethanol produced at the plant is sold to blenders who mix it with petrol and sell it on forecourts of supermarket chains including Tesco.
British Sugar officials estimated 700,000-800,000 tons of sugar beet a year (equivalent to roughly 110,000-116,000 tons of sugar) would be consumed by the new plant.
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