Engineers behind ambitious plans to create the UK’s first geothermal rum maturation facility and distillery in Cornwall have revealed how £75,000 in UK Government funding could help revolutionise sustainability in the distillery sector and beyond. The backing won by the Cornish Geothermal Distillery Company (CGDC) – the largest single award from the UK Government’s Green Distilleries Competition – will fund a study led by global engineering consultancy Buro Happold into the use of high temperature heat pumps to provide low carbon heat for the distillery processes. CGDC’s pioneering “Celsius” project involves harnessing renewable waste heat and power from Geothermal Engineering Ltd’s (GEL) geothermal power plant at United Downs, Cornwall, the UK’s first geothermal power plant. CGDC’s Celsius rum cask maturation facility aims to be the first commercial entity to connect directly to the waste heat output from the power plant, and boost it to run heat intensi
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Experts from global engineering consultancy Buro Happold brought in to work on pioneering scheme in Cornwall
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Engineers are to begin a study into how high temperature pumps can be used to heat a planned £10million rum distillery in Cornwall.
The fund will be split among 17 distilleries, comprising 11 across Scotland and six in England.
The successful distilleries will receive between £44,000 and £75,000 each in the first phase of funding, helping them boost decarbonisation research and development, with schemes including the use of hydrogen and biofuel boilers and geothermal energy in their production processes.
The funding for the Green Distilleries competition is part of the £1bn Net Zero Innovation Portfolio which aims to accelerate the commercialisation of innovative low-carbon technologies, systems and processes in the power, buildings and industrial sectors.
Energy and clean growth minister Kwasi Kwarteng said: “Building back greener from the pandemic is something we can all raise a toast to.
Whisky gets into the spirit of building back greener
£10 million fund to help UK’s world-famous distilleries go green by switching to low carbon fuels such as hydrogen.
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8 January 2021
UK distilleries raise a toast to government’s green industrial revolution in first phase of funding to cut carbon emissions and support new green jobs
£10 million fund to help UK’s world-famous distilleries go green by switching to low carbon fuels such as hydrogen
funding to enable distilleries to cut emissions by almost a million tonnes of CO2 every year - equivalent to taking 200,000 cars off the road
Whisky and spirit lovers are raising a glass to the delivery of new government funding that will ensure they can enjoy their favourite tipple without it costing the earth.