In Scotland, a combined heat and power plant in Peterhead said that it had commenced talks to co-locate a rapeseed oil biodiesel plant at the location that will utilize the heat generation of the Buchan facility. Buchan plans to use 262,000 tonnes of landfill waste from Aberdeenshire to power 10,000 homes and commercial sites. The biodiesel plant, with an undisclosed capacity, would be the first in Scotland.
Late last year, Branson’s Virgin Voyager train service trialed a B20-based service across England, Scotland and Wales. “It’s fantastic that we are leading the rest of Europe in developing this fuel,” said Branson at the time of the launch. If test results are successful, Virgin expects to convert their entire Voyager fleet to biodiesel and reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 14 percent.
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