Excise relief for bioethanol

EXCISE relief is being relieved for bioethanol made from a milk derivative, in an ambitious pilot project which will involve introduction of up to 50 bioethanol filling stations in Ireland.

Submitted by Maxol Ltd, it is the only bioethanol project approved for excise relief.

Two of the four pure plant oil (PPO) projects approved were submitted by companies which pioneered biofuels in Ireland and are already actively engaged in production.

Eilish Oils Ltd of Newtownmountkennedy, Co Wicklow, aims to promote, encourage and train engineers in fitting and maintaining PPO technologies in vehicles.

Biogreen Energy Products of New Ross, Co Wexford proposes to integrate renewable energy throughout its process, including purchase of renewable electricity and investigating use of their straw by-product for heating and for drying rapeseed.

Kilkenny Cereals Ltd of Goresbridge intends to produce PPO from locally grown rapeseed oil, and convert 117 vehicles to run on PPO.

The Donegal Farm Relief Services Group of Raphoe has similar aims, in a cross-border project.

In all four projects in this category, it is intended to use the oil seed rape cake by-product as an animal feed.

Conoco Phillips of Whitegate, Midleton, Co Cork, is a subsidiary of one of the world’s largest refiners. It is granted excise relief for testsof a biomass based synthetic diesel, which could be sold through its existing network.

Greyhound Recycling and Recovery of Trim, Co Meath, aims to convert recovered vegetable oil to biodiesel. Eco Ola of Galway and the Mayo Institute of Technology have been awarded excise relief for a project to introduce biodiesel from recovered vegetable oil as a transport fuel in Galway city.