U.K.-based fuel distributor Greenergy has acquired Harvest Biofuels’ biodiesel manufacturing facility at Seal Sands on Teesside, England.
The acquisition of Harvest’s manufacturing assets gives Greenergy additional biodiesel production capacity with which to meet its own biofuel blending obligations under the UK’s Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation, the company said in a statement.
Greenergy already owns and operates a waste based biodiesel facility at Immingham on the east coast of England. Production from the Immingham facility is insufficient to meet the company’s growing biodiesel blending requirements in the U.K. and these have to be be met partially through imported biodiesel. The addition of the Seal Sands facility, which also produces biodiesel from waste oils, will reduce reliance on these imports and allow Greenergy to meet more of its biodiesel blending obligations through its own production.
As part of the agreement reached with Harvest, Greenergy has also taken over Harvest Biofuels’ biodiesel storage contract at Dordrecht in the Netherlands. Harvest Energy will become an ex-rack customer of Greenergy for petrol and diesel for its customers in the South East of England, Teesside and in Scotland.