Abengoa Bioenergy

Refinery

Immingham (planned), 400,000 tonnes bioethanol / year. They intend to use 1 million tonnes of wheat as feedstock. Due to open in 2010.

See www.abengoabioenergy.com


Argent Energy

Refineries

Motherwell: Has capacity for to produce over 45,000 tonnes biodiesel per year. Produces on average 875 tonnes of fuel (1 million litres of bio-diesel) per week. According to company website they currently only use tallow and waste vegetable oil but are equipped for using virgin oil (i.e. agrofuels).

Ellesmere Port, Cheshire (planned): 150,000 tonnes biodiesel / year. Equipped to use tallow, waste vegetable oil and virgin oil (i.e. agrofuels). Will rely on large-scale imports - we cannot verify whether those will be imports of waste vegetable oil and tallow or agrofuels.

The company has been sold to third party investors, and is now owned by Fletcher Bay Investment Company Limited, an investment company formed by David Gray, AGEL's co-founder and AGEL's senior management. Expansion plans remain in place but have not so far been progressed.

Partner

Petroplus

See www.argentenergy.com


Bioethanol Ltd

Refinery

Near Immingham: 100,000 tonnes biodiesel / year

See www.bio-fuels.co.uk


British Sugar

Refinery

Wissington, near Downham Market, Norfolk: 55,000 tonnes bioethanol / year, (later biobutanol) from sugar beet. Uses 650,000 tonnes of sugar beat in production. Began in 2007 and was one of the first operators.

See www.britishsugar.co.uk


Earls Nook Ltd

Formerly known as Biofuels Corporation

Partner

94% of shares are owned by Barclays Bank.

Refinery

Seal Sands, Teesside 1, Middlesborough: 250,000 tonnes biodeisel / year but operating well below capacity. Sources includes palm oil from Malaysia.

Partners

BP, Associated British Foods (British Sugar) and Dupont

See www.biofuelscorp.com


Ensus

Partners

Glencore Grain holds the contract to purchase grain for the refinery.

Refineries

Wilton, Teesside:

320,000 tonnes bioethanol / year. Will use wheat from the UK and EU as a feedstock. Annual production capacity will be 400 million litres, which is bigger than any existing ethanol refinery in Europe. Started operation early 2010.

Humberside (under consideration)

See www.ensusgroup.com


Greenergy Biofuels

Partners

Cargill and Tesco each own around 25% of shares in Greenergy Biofuels Ltd.

Refinery

Immingham West Terminal: Immingham West Terminal: Capacity was doubled in 2008 to 200,000 tonnes biodiesel from 100,000 tonnes of feedstocks / year coming from soy, palm oil, rapeseed oil and possibly some used cooking oil, though the plant is understood to be operating below capacity at present. In spring 2008, Greenpeace had a sample of Greenergy biodiesel analysed and found that it was made from 70% soya and 30% palm oil.

See www.greenergy.com


Ineos

Refinery

Plan announced for a 30 million litre (24,000 tonne) cellulosic ethanol refinery which the company states would use biodegradable household and commercial waste. Planned opening date 2012 with expansion planned by 2015. The company has been given £7.3 million by One North East and DECC.

See www.ineos.com


Petroplus

Refinery

Teesside: Refines North Sea Oil and blends with biofuel. Use rapeseed, palm and soya oil and waste vegetable oil. According to their website, the Teesside refinery supplies most of the UK’s biodiesel, branded as Bio-plus which is a 4.5% blend, ‘through an agreement with a biodiesel additive producer’.

Partner

Argent Energy

See www.petroplusholdings.com


Roquette

Refinery

100,000 tonnes ethanol / year, probably from wheat. The dates for construction and opening are not known yet.

See www.roquette.com


TMO Renewables

Refinery

This is a small, demonstration/trial refinery producing cellulosic ethanol from solid biomass, using genetially modified microbes, patented by the same company.

See www.tmo-group.com


Vireol

Refinery

Near Grimsby: 150,000 tonnes bioethanol. Ethanol is produced from wheat and, according to their website, 'other grain'.

See www.vireol.com


Vivergo Fuels

Partners

This is a joint venture between BP, Associated British Foods (ABF) (including British Sugar) and DuPont. Cargill will be supplying wheat for the refinery.

Refinery

Saltend, Hull: Two refineries are being built. One is an ethanol refinery for 1.1 million tonnes of wheat per year. The other is a smaller demonstration biobutanol refinery, taking feedstock wheat, corn, rye and barley, being built as part of research and development for the commercial development of biobutanol. Both are to open early 2010.