Biofuels are replacement fossil fuels, usually bioethanol, biodiesel, renewable diesel and sustainable aviation fuels, made out of sustainable biogenic resources. Everything from wood offcuts, to agricultural by-products, used cooking oil or beef tallow and even algae can be turned into biofuels.
In Queensland, all commercially produced biofuel is currently created from easily fermentable sugars from grain sorghum, used cooking oil and molasses from sugarcane processing. In the future, biofuels could come from food and garden organics currently going to landfill, the natural rubber content in off the road (OTR) mining tyres, grease trap waste and/or construction and demolition waste.
Active Energy Group plc (LON:AEG) is a biomass based renewable energy business focussed on using its proprietary technology to transform low-cost or waste biomass material into renewable biomass fuels, thus creating next generation biomass products. AEG’S CoalSwitch® is a second generation biomass fuel that has been tested, and proven, to replace the traditional coal fired-power industry and existing renewable biomass industry without requiring plant modification.