Longma Clean Energy manufactures renewable biofuels for use in our own green electricity generators, which are also the test bed for our research program. We produce Vplus7, a retail biofuel additive, that is specifically designed for vegetable oil based biofuels, such as SVO and RME biodiesel.

The green electricity, which we generate is exported to the grid and sold to end users via our supplier Greenenergy.

Apart from startup and shutdown, our diesel generators are run on 100% recycled vegetable oil.

Small scale generation connected to the local high voltage system, such as ours, is known as embedded generation. The electricity is produced in the same location as it is used, avoiding the need to transmit it across vast distances and through several transformer steps, all of which results in losses, typically over 8%. As well as being more efficient, a system built of embedded generation can also be far more robust.

A second major benefit of embedded generation, is that the waste heat that is inevitably produced when using a fuel, can be put to use for process and space heating. This can result in massive greenhouse gas savings by displacing the fossil fuels that would be otherwise used for heating. We are currently using our waste heat for our own process heating, as well as supplying neighbouring units for space heating.

We don't need a new generation of wasteful, centrally distributed nuclear power stations. The solution lies closer to home.

Currently our biofuels are made from used cooking oil collected from schools, pubs, restaurants and other catering companies. The supply of raw material is limited, and this situation is exacerbated by the large oil specialist companies who bulk up and ship the oil outside the producer region, and even export it.

We feel that since it must be collected on a regional basis, that it should be used as a resource for that region, preventing additional fossil emissions from unnecessary transport. Local reuse also leads to local wealth retention through additional jobs and investment in the local community.