2nd Generation
Bio-Ethanol
Ireland
Key Numbers + Information
Production at Ireland's 1st Biorefinery:
50 million litres
of bioethanol/year
Total Irish market 2015 - 2025 Circa:
60 million litres
of bioethanol/year
100% Irish sourced waste, Cereal Straw, producing 2nd Gen
Advanced Bioethanol
100% imported from USA/Brazil -
1st Gen sourced
from food crops
Current Supply of Bio-Ethanol to Irish Market
Irelands first Biorefinery will be capable of producing and with "Double counting" exceed Irelands current EU mandated requirments for Biothanol blended trasnportation fuel. Current legislation states that 5% of all petrol must be Bioethanol. This 5% is currently met with imports of 60 Million Litres per year from USA and Brazil, often via Roterdam. The Bioethanol is made from Corn and Sugar Cane, a food crop with high embdded co2
With Proesa™ technology (insert name here) will be producing 2nd Generation Bioethanol from waste cereal straw sourced eitirely from a within a 120Km radius of the Biorefinery in Co.Offaly.
Proesa™ belongs to the so-called “second-generation” technologies which allow the use of the sugars present in lignocellulosic biomass (Cereal Straw) to obtain fuel and other chemicals with lower greenhouse gas emissions and at competitive costs compared to fossil fuels (oil, natural gas).
13MW electricity production
The plant is totally self-sufficient
From within 120Km radius of
Bio-Refinery
Biorefinery
Location
Co.Offaly
The plant is totally self-sufficient