Renewable methanol

Certified renewable methanol, made in Britain and the Netherlands, available from 2028

We build our own renewable generation and produce e-methanol on the same site. We are talking now to shipping, ports and heavy industry who want volume under contract before the obligations tighten.

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100%renewable electricity, dedicated and direct connected
RFNBOqualifying fuel, certified under the UK RTFO
2028first contracted volumes, scaling each year to 2032
UK & NLproduced and delivered close to where it is burned

What we are building

Generation and fuel production on the same site

energytofuel builds its own renewable generation, onshore and offshore wind, solar and hydro, and sites modular methanol synthesis units directly behind it. The electricity never touches the public network, so there is no grid import, no fossil electricity in the fuel and no connection queue to wait in. Carbon is captured from the air on site.

Modular, not monolithic

Each plant is built from repeated modular units rather than one large bespoke facility. We add capacity as sites come online, so delivery dates follow build time rather than a single commissioning event.

Delivery

Production starts in 2027 and contracted volumes are available from 2028, rising each year. We site plants to supply the customers who have contracted the output.

Green credentials

Renewable by construction, not by certificate

  • Zero emission electricity by design. Each plant draws from its own generation over a direct connection and imports nothing from the grid. It meets the additionality and hourly correlation tests for RFNBO status through the build itself, not through bought certificates.
  • Carbon taken from the air. We capture the carbon from the atmosphere rather than from a fossil source, so burning the fuel returns only what was removed.
  • Well past the threshold. An RFNBO must save at least 70% of greenhouse gas against the fossil comparator. Our electricity counts as zero emission and the carbon comes from the air, so only construction and distribution remain to account for.
  • Compliance value where you need it. UK supply is certified under the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation. Dutch supply carries its compliance value in the price.
  • A supply chain you can audit. Made in the UK and the Netherlands and delivered to where it is burned. The fuel crosses no ocean to reach you, and you can visit the plant that made it.

Markets

Two places the fuel goes first

Shipping

Methanol tonnage is on order across the major fleets and the engines work. What is missing is the fuel.

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Industry

Cement, aggregates, sugar and food processing run large lorry fleets and site plant on diesel, and fuel them at their own gates.

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Shipping

The ships are being built. The fuel to run them is not.

Certified renewable methanol for bunkering in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands, contracted now and delivered from 2028.

The problem

Compliance now sets the cost of a bunker

The cost of burning fossil bunkers is now set by regulation, not by the oil price. FuelEU Maritime tightens its greenhouse gas intensity limit every few years, the EU Emissions Trading System covers shipping in full, and the IMO has agreed a global framework that will price marine emissions worldwide.

Operators have responded, and dual fuel methanol tonnage is on order across the major fleets. The engines work. Very little renewable methanol capacity is under construction in northern Europe, and most announced projects are waiting on a grid connection or a subsidy decision. The volume that does arrive before 2030 will go to whoever contracted it first.

Delivery

Into the ports you already call at

Production starts in 2027 and contracted volumes are available from 2028, rising each year. We are working with major ports in the United Kingdom and the Netherlands that want to help their customers decarbonise, and we site plants to supply them.

Bunker fuel

Certified renewable methanol delivered into the port for the ships calling there.

The port's own emissions

The same fuel runs port plant and harbour craft, so a port can cut its own diesel use under the same contract rather than procuring separately for it.

Industry behind the gate

Heavy industry and hauliers on and around the estate give each plant a second market that is not exposed to the shipping cycle.

What we are looking for

Volume offtake from 2028

  • Contracted tonnage. Multi year agreements for annual volume, stepping up as sites come online.
  • An early indication is enough. Tell us indicative volume, preferred port and delivery mode, and we will come back with a term sheet.
  • Commitment ahead of investment decision. Contracted offtake is what takes each site to financial close, so the counterparties who move first decide where we build.

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Industry

Heavy industry runs on lorries, and lorries run on diesel

Cement, aggregates, sugar, steel, waste and food processing move millions of tonnes a year by road, and most of it leaves from a site the operator owns. That is where the fuel is bought, and that is where we can make it.

The problem

The hardest lorries to electrify belong to the heaviest industries

A cement works, a quarry, a sugar factory or a steel plant generates a constant stream of heavy, dense loads. These are the duty cycles that battery trucks find hardest: maximum gross weight, long hours, tight turnarounds and, in some cases, a season that concentrates a year of haulage into a few months. The diesel bill is large, visible and reported, and it sits in the same accounts as the emissions targets.

Cement and aggregates

Quarry haulage, bulk powder tankers and mixers, plus loading shovels, crushers and generators on site. Long distances from quarry to plant to customer, and a sector already exposed to carbon border pricing on its product.

Sugar and agriculture

The beet campaign puts a year of lorry movements into a few winter months, into and out of a small number of factories. Concentrated demand at a fixed location is exactly what an on-site fuel plant is for.

Steel, waste and food

Scrap and raw material haulage, refuse collection fleets and chilled distribution all run high mileage from depots the operator controls, on vehicles that will be the last to electrify.

Our answer

Make the fuel where the fleet already refuels

Captive fleets do not need a public refuelling network. They need one pump, at the depot, that is always supplied. We build renewable generation and modular methanol production at or beside your site, so the fuel is made on the ground it is burned on and never has to be bought from a market.

  • A liquid fuel, handled the way diesel is. Ambient temperature and pressure, conventional tanks and pumps, no cryogenics and no new site infrastructure class.
  • One site, two demands. The same fuel serves the road fleet and the non-road plant on site, so a single contract covers both.
  • Certified under the RTFO. Road transport is where the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation sits. A renewable fuel of non-biological origin supplied for road use earns tradable certificates, and that value is part of what makes the fuel affordable.
  • Land you already own. Industrial sites tend to have the space, the grid frustration and the planning history that a co-located generation and fuel project needs.
  • Emissions you can evidence. The electricity is dedicated and the carbon comes from the air, so the saving is defensible to a customer, an auditor or a regulator.

What we are looking for

Industrial partners with diesel to displace

  • Your diesel volume. Annual litres across the road fleet and site plant is the only number we need to start.
  • A site with room. Land at or near the works for generation and the fuel units, and a view on what your grid connection will and will not allow.
  • A fleet decision ahead of you. If you are already weighing what replaces diesel in your heaviest vehicles, we should be one of the options on the table.

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Technology

Modular by design, built from parts that already exist

Our technology is modular, and it uses existing mass produced components to make it economically viable, affordable and scalable. A plant is a number of identical units rather than one bespoke facility, so cost comes down with volume and a site can grow as its generation does.

One unit, both inputs

Carbon dioxide and hydrogen are generated in the same unit, so a site needs no separate capture plant, no hydrogen pipeline and no interface between the two.

Low cost and robust

The design leans on components already made at scale for other industries rather than on bespoke equipment built a handful at a time.

Mature catalysis

Methanol synthesis runs on catalyst technology that industry has used for decades. The chemistry is not where the novelty sits.

Advanced thermal management

Synthesis gives off heat, and managing it is what keeps a small unit inside its operating window as output rises and falls.

Remote monitoring

Performance and faults are visible from anywhere, so a site does not need a permanent engineering presence to run properly.

Built for intermittency

The units are designed to work with intermittent renewable energy. They follow the wind rather than waiting for steady power.

Why it matters

Modularity is what makes the delivery date real

A single large plant arrives on one date, or it does not. A plant made of repeated units starts producing as soon as the first units are commissioned, and capacity follows the generation onto the site. That is what lets us contract volume for 2028 rather than a single commissioning event years later.

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Team

Who is building this

Renewable generation, fuel production and project finance are three different trades. We are assembling people who have done each of them before.

David Kipling

David Kipling

Chief Executive

David is a serial entrepreneur who entered the energy sector in 2009, founding a corporate finance business specialising in renewable energy projects and developing utility scale solar and wind. He then spent five years at Jabil (NYSE: JBL) as a Vice President, with a leading role in corporate venturing in distributed commercial energy technologies.

He went on to found On-Site Energy, a fast growing behind the meter energy solutions provider for energy intensive industry, where he is Chief Executive. It now has over £100m of assets under management and operations in the United Kingdom, Ireland, Germany, France, Belgium and the Netherlands. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1989.

david@energy2fuel.com  ·  +44 7824 018991

Working with us

We are hiring

Project development, renewable construction, process engineering, fuel trading and project finance. If you have built these things before, we would like to talk.

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Contact

David Kipling

Chief Executive

david@energy2fuel.com
+44 7824 018991