Country's first biofuel terminal officially opens in Cork 

Facility opened in Ringaskiddy on Thursday

William Tebbit, chief executive of GBF; Magnus Hammick, chief executive of Green Biofuels Limited UK; Cllr Deirdre Forde, lord mayor of Cork; Cllr Audrey Buckley, deputy mayor of the County of Cork; Conor Mowlds, chief commercial officer of the Port of Cork Company; Peter O'Brien, Ireland manager of GBF Ireland Ltd, with performers Aoibhin Kenneally (left), Kevin Curran and Aoibhin Marren (right), as leading sustainable biofuel supplier GBF officially launched Ireland’s first low-carbon biofuel terminal at Ringaskiddy, Co Cork, on Thursday. Picture: Michael O'Sullivan /OSM

Ireland’s first renewable biofuel terminal will service the country’s surging demand for cleaner greener fuels and play a key role in reducing carbon emissions in diesel-reliant industries.

British biofuel supplier Green Biofuels Limited (GBF) officially opened the facility in Ringaskiddy, Co Cork, on Thursday, where it has invested some €30m in the site to initially store 38m litres of its hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO) biofuel called Gd+.