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Articulated lorries in Scotland are (almost) powered by… whiskey

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“Put the whiskey in your tanks”. No, it is not a new age version of the famous song from The Giants, but what those of the Scottish distillery Glenfiddich have begun to do at their factory in Speyside. All this is part of a plan to reduce the company’s CO2 footprint and which uses the biogas obtained from whiskey processing waste – such as malted barley grains ‘exhausted’ at the end of distillation – to power the heat engine of articulated vehicles. of 44 tons.


At the moment there are three tractors that have been used for the use of this fuel and that will pull the respective trailers from the Dufftown plant to the bottling and packaging sites, thus reaching the four plants located in central and western Scotland that belong to William Grant & Sons, the company to which Glenfiddich refers.

Moreover, the biogas power supply – which reduces emissions by 95% compared to diesel engines and other fossil fuels and reduces particulate matter by up to 99% – has not involved modifications to the engines of the tractors and it is estimated that it will reduce the footprint of carbon generated by at least 250 tons of CO2 per year.

Articulated lorries in Scotland are (almost) powered by… whiskey

This is why the entire company fleet, equal to 20 articulated trucks, could soon be powered by biogas. Finally, this green initiative could also be espoused by other local producers by virtue of the fact that the Scotch Whiskey Association has announced the goal of reducing the CO2 emissions of the entire sector to zero by 2040.

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