“Put the whiskey in your tank”. No, this isn’t a New Age version of The Giants’ famous song, but what Scottish distillery Glenfiddich has started doing at its factory in Speyside. All of this is part of the company’s plan to reduce its CO2 footprint and which uses biogas derived from whiskey processing waste – such as malted barley grains ‘finished’ at the end of distillation – to power the heat engines of 44-ton articulated trucks. to give power. .

There are currently three tractors that have been harnessed for this fuel and which 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.

In addition, the biogas power supply – which reduces emissions by up to 95% and particulate matter by up to 99% compared to diesel engines and other fossil fuels – does not include modifications to tractor engines and is estimated to This will reduce the carbon footprint generated by at least 250 tonnes of CO2 per year.

This is why the company’s entire fleet, the equivalent of 20 articulated trucks, may soon be powered by biogas. Finally, this green initiative can also be marred by other local producers by virtue of the fact that the Scotch Whiskey Association has announced a target of reducing the entire region’s CO2 emissions to zero by 2040.