Biodiesel

Aeternum currently operate one of the UK's most advanced Biodiesel production facilities. The plant was acquired in 2010 and, following 18 months of trials and investment, is now fully operational. Aeternum and its partners are investing to expand the plant capacity from 50,000 tonnes to 145,000 tonnes over the next 18 months. Aeternum will also make a significant investment in joint ventures to ensure upstream feedstock sustainability and security ensuring 'end to end integration' of the business.

Biomass

Primary Biomass

Aeternum are focused on making joint venture investments into a diverse range of forestry and timber-processing businesses, ensuring at all times quality, sustainability and security of its biomass supply chain. Aeternum, utilizing its forestry experience, aims to be the UK's largest supplier of sustainable biomass to both the industrial and domestic sectors.

Recovered Biomass

Aeternum are evaluating businesses with proven recycling technologies to locate or joint venture their operations within its Energy Villages to create multiple, sustainable sources of clean, biomass recovered from commercial, municipal and industrial waste streams which can be used in its biomass power plants or supplied to other dedicated or co-firing generators.

Biomass Fuel Processing

By harnessing a domestic and international supply chain and working in partnership with its industry partners, Aeternum is planning to develop the UK's largest dedicated biomass pellet mill. The planned facility will have a capacity of up to 500,000 tonnes utilizing both Aeternum's primary and recovered biomass. Using a patented technology, developed by Aeternum's industry partners, will allow the production of pellets that surpass durability, density, moisture and energy content of any other pellet currently produced.

Recycling

Aeternum are developing three Energy Villages across the UK. The first to be announced is a planned 600,000 tonne per annum Resource Recovery Plant at Castleford. Aeternum's remaining Resource Recovery sites are currently in planning and will recover over an additional 1,000,000 tonnes per annum of recyclates and secondary biomass.

Aeternum's Integrated Energy Villages

At the heart of Aeternum's Biofuels and Recycling strategy is the Energy Village Concept.

Aeternum's Energy Villages, a common concept in Northern Europe and Scandinavia, are a fully integrated resource recovery facility to completely eliminate the need for landfill, taking the materials that would be buried and turning them into either re-useable products or energy and heating for local industry and homes.

The Energy Village brings together recycling and biomass renewable energy creation, firstly separating re-useable materials and clean biomass, then creating green electricity, re-useable heat and output products through material recovery.

The proposed investment programme across each facility is in excess of £400M creating hundreds of permanent skilled jobs in each location.

Oil Storage

Aeternum are currently implementing a plan to develop a further 150,000 tonnes of bulk oil storage capacity. The facility is capable of storing a variety of liquids and plans are in disussion to link the storage directly to the UK pipeline network.