Greenergy is the UK’s largest supplier of transport fuels with around 20% market share. Established in 1992 to supply fuels and energy with a reduced environmental impact, the business is owned by the directors, with a minority shareholding by Tesco in the parent company. Greenergy is also the largest and most experienced supplier of biofuel in the UK, supplying more than a third of all the biofuel sold in the UK since 2005. They source sustainably produced bioethanol and biodiesel worldwide and also operate a 200,000 tonne capacity biodiesel facility at Immingham on the east coast of England. Greenergy intends to purchase all the biofuel produced by Scarab.
St1 is a Finnish energy company whose vision is to be the leading producer and seller of CO2-aware energy. The company researches and develops economically viable, environmentally sustainable energy solutions. St1’s energy services and products cover everything from wind power to high-concentration ethanol Refuel RE85 produced from biowaste. To date, St1 has six bioethanol plants in Finland, and a total of around 640 distribution stations in Finland, Sweden, Norway and Poland. The company has its headquarters in Helsinki and offices in Stockholm and Warsaw.
EEA is an environmental investment fund manager with $1.8bn of assets under management, and a team of experienced carbon professionals that ensures assets are managed to secure and maximise carbon value. In 2003, EEA became investment adviser to Climate Change plc before it was admitted to AIM, and was subsequently instrumental in the establishment of, and raising of funds for Trading Emissions plc (TEP). TEP is now an AIM quoted investment company that invests directly in tradable environmental credits and projects that will create such commodities. As exclusive investment adviser, EEA originates, structures and advises TEP on its investments.
With a depth of experience in food waste and co-product sourcing and collection from commercial and industrial producers, Brocklesby’s clients include McDonalds and Tesco.
Axion has extensive project development capabilities across the resource recovery sector and is a specialist in commercialising innovative processes such as pyrolysis and pyrolysis oil upgrading to convert biomass into biofuel. Axion develops processes in-house and helps clients exploit novel third party waste to fuel technologies. The company has recently been awarded a £7m contract by the Carbon Trust to manage their waste to fuel Pyrolysis Challenge.
process is commercially established and proven with 6 plants commissioned and operational since 2007 at various locations in Finland. These plants produce bioethanol from packaged and unpackaged bakery products, by-products of potato processing, dough, and spent brewer’s yeast. Where space is limited, plants can be scaled to fit a development foot print of just 50m x 30m.
in novel combinations with other proven technologies allowing the processing of a comprehensive range of food wastes. This integration enables high levels of energy efficiency through the harnessing of renewable heat and power which reduces carbon emissions.
– Scarab offers a robust, proven method of recovering energy from food waste. Our facilities produce a range of renewable energy products, which provides greater financial resilience than conventional solutions. There is a compelling case for an increasing demand for renewable energy. The biofuels market has especially strong growth prospects with escalating regulatory mandates for its inclusion in transport fuels.
Further security is provided by Greenergy, the UK’s largest transport fuel supplier, under-writing all Scarab’s biofuel sales.
– We create big carbon savings from a small footprint. Our biofuel produces over 80% less greenhouse gas emissions than conventional transport fuels. That’s around 3 tonnes of CO2 equivalent saved for every tonne of bioethanol we produce.
We can also provide the opportunity for feedstock producers to reuse the biofuel we produce in their own supply chain, completing the closed loop of sustainability.
Scarab is the result of a groundbreaking initiative driven by Greenergy, the UK’s largest supplier of transport fuels. We are a unique collaboration of sector-leading businesses, with each of our corporate stakeholders providing the best of breed specialist skills, expertise and technology necessary to create a world-class renewable energy company.
Using proven, commercially viable technologies owned by consortium members, Scarab will process a wide variety of previously underused waste materials – including food industry waste and by-products, out-of-date retail food waste, and , in time, segregated domestic & commercial food waste – to create renewable fuels and energy. With the capability to process many forms of food wastes and by-products, from sugar and starch to fats and oils we will dramatically expand the range of raw materials suitable for biofuel and energy production, providing additional sustainable resources to help satisfy rapidly rising demand.
Our unique business model also delivers other environmental advantages. By building scaleable processing facilities close to major waste sources, transport costs associated with high volume, low value perishable products will be greatly reduced and considerable savings will be made in related carbon emissions.
— CEO and Joint founder of Greenergy. Grown business to become UK market leader from bedroom start up.
