The Drinks Business
11 January 2021 By Phoebe French
Seventeen distilling projects in England and Scotland have received the first phase of a £10 million government-backed funding project to help them switch to low carbon fuels.
The hydrogen-powered Orkney Distillery, part of the HySpirits project led by European Marine Energy Centre
The scheme, which was first announced in last year’s budget, aims to help UK distilleries to cut emissions by almost a million tonnes of CO2 every year, the equivalent to taking 200,000 cars off the road.
Eleven projects in Scotland and six in England have been chosen to partake in the first phase, and will each receive between £44,000 and £75,000 to fund different green projects, such as the creation of a low emission hydrogen boiler and a geothermal distillery.