Porridge: A Good Source of Energy For Your Body & Your Factory

A FIFE factory is to become one of Scotland’s greenest when it begins generating all its own energy from oat husks.

Quaker, which produces Scott’s Porage Oats at its Uthrogle Mills plant near Cupar, is to invest £6 million in a combined heat and power biomass boiler which will make it carbon neutral.

The husks, removed from the oats during the milling process, will provide 9,709 MWhrs of electricity and 10,902 MWhrs of steam a year, reducing its emissions by 9,000 tonnes a year.

“This innovative approach by Quaker to cut carbon emissions through investment in new low carbon technology will be a powerful signal to other businesses that reducing carbon emissions and looking for sustainable energy sources makes business sense.”

clipped from www.inhabitat.com Scott’s Porage Oats, a Quaker Oats Factory at Uthrogle Mills in Scotland is installing a combined heat and power biomass boiler that will enable the factory to become carbon-neutral, running entirely on waste oat husks clipped from www.repp.org clipped from www.thecourier.co.uk will allow oat husks—the part of the oat left over from porridge making—to generate renewable power for the entire site the steam and electricity produced would reduce carbon emissions by 9000 tonnes a year—equivalent to the typical annual carbon emissions of 3000 cars Surplus power will be released to the National Grid, preventing a further 1800 tonnes of carbon dioxide annually The move will also cut out the need for transporting husks away from the site, which accounts for 172,000 miles and 600 tonnes of carbon emissions a year Every service or product we purchase has an impact on climate change clipped from www.inhabitat.com Now none of the energy stored in the oats will go to waste.