Bioenergy Facts
- 40,000 head of cattle can produce enough manure feedstock to generate 5 MW of electricity through biogas.
- Ethanol has a higher octane rating than normal gasoline.
- Biodiesel can be made with waste oil from restaurant deep fryers.
- The main byproduct of biodiesel is glycerine which has over 1,500 applications including food, cosmetics and pharmaceuticals.
- Ethanol has been used as a motor fuel in North America since the early 1900s. Ethanol gas blends were used in several states during the Second World War.
- Alberta’s existing renewable fuel plants use waste products from food manufacturing to make fuel. The ethanol plant produces ethanol as a co-product of processing wheat into food and animal feed products; the biodiesel plant uses food waste as a raw material.
