Okay boys and girls, we now have ourselves a legitimate excuse to get absolutely legless on some of the finest Scotch whisky to be found. It’s all in the name of reducing carbon emissions by increasing the waste product left behind in the distilling process.

And that will help the planet…how? Read on before rushing out to buy that case of Famous Grouse. 

An application has been lodged with Moray Council in Scotland to build a £24 million power plant that will use by-products from the Scotch whisky industry in the Scottish Highlands.

The Combination of Rothes Distillers (Cord) proposes to build the new power plant on the site of the existing Cord-owned dark grains processing facility at Rothes. It will use draff and pot ale as a fuel and it is estimated that the facility will be capable of producing up to 7.2 MW of electricity which will be sold into the national grid. This much electricity would be enough to power around 9,000 homes.

It’s a design that has been used in numerous biomass power plants around the world and has the added attraction of also being able to convert the pot ale into organic fertiliser for use by local farmers on their barley crops.

By the way: for those of you who were wondering…draff is what is left of the grain after the fermentation process is complete.

To read about more biomass developments, scoot on over to the Biomass page.

More information about this project will be gladly accepted by me, you can either leave a comment or send me an email.