Ireland’s BWG Foods Launches Biogas-Powered HGVs

July 14, 2020

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(Bioenergy Insight) BWG Foods, one of Ireland’s leading wholesale and retail groups, has become the first fast-moving consumer goods company in the country to launch a fleet of biogas powered vehicles.

The group, which owns and operates SPAR, EUROSPAR, Londis, MACE, and XL, has launched an initial fleet of two heavy goods vehicles (HGVs) fuelled with biogas in place of traditional diesel fuel. BWG hopes to further increase the use of biogas as part of its increasingly environmentally-friendly fuel mix. The vehicles will deliver a 90% reduction in transport-related carbon dioxide (CO₂) emissions – a total of 200 tonnes of CO₂ emissions annually by the business.

The launch of the biogas-fuelled rigid 26 tonne trucks with electric fridge units, which cost around €180,000 each, follows a partnership between BWG and two Irish start-ups – Vision Green and Generation Green – and represents the a major development in terms of green transport in Ireland this year.

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Biogas has been designated as one of the Future Fuels of Choice by the Irish Government, with greater investment planned for the increased production of biogas. READ MORE

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