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Diageo Partners With Dalkia to Create New Bio-Energy Facility

Posted on: Monday, 11 August 2008, 09:01 CDT

Diageo, an alcoholic beverages firm, has signed a formal partnership agreement with energy management company, Dalkia, to create a new bio-energy facility.

The bio-energy facility will be set up at the Cameronbridge distillery in Fife, Scotland at an approximate cost of E65 million.

According to the company, the facility will integrate sustainable technologies (including anaerobic digestion and biomass conversion) on a commercial scale. It is set to reduce annual carbon dioxide emissions at the site by approximately 56,000 tons.

The proposed facility, which is subject to planning approval, will recover 98% of thermal steam and 80% of electrical power at the distillery, the company stated.

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.

Bryan Donaghey, managing director of Diageo Scotland, said: "This will be a showcase bioenergy facility which harnesses a variety of green technologies in a project of an unprecedented scale."

The company has said that the bioenergy facility will generate renewable energy from 'spent wash' (a mixture of wheat, malted barley, yeast and water, produced during distillation). The spent wash is separated into liquid and dried solids. The liquid is then converted, via anaerobic digestion, into biogas and the dried solids form a biomass fuel source.

Source: Datamonitor

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