HB Grandi took a big step into the future when its new electrically powered electric/steam boiler was test-run for the first time recently at the company’s fishmeal production facility.
From now on, locally-produced electric power will be used to run the plant instead of the heavy oil burned to provide power in the past.
"This is remarkable progress. It’s not just that our power costs will be reduced by doing this, but we will also reduce significantly emissions of greenhouse gases in our meal and oil production. In the last few years we have consumed 3.30 million litres of heavy fuel every year to power production, with the accompanying release of emissions. Now these emissions are no longer a problem," said Vilhjálmur Vilhjálmsson, head of HB Grandi’s pelagic division.
