Certa to fuel entire Irish delivery fleet with HVO

After a successful trial in 2022, over 100 trucks will run on the second-generation biofuel by the end of March.

Certa has transitioned its fleet of delivery vehicles in Ireland from running on diesel to hydrotreated vegetable oil (HVO).

The company's entire fleet of over 100 trucks will run on the second-generation biofuel by the end of March following a successful trial in 2022. Collectively, the company’s fleet travels over 3,000,000 km annually, the switch to HVO is the equivalent of reducing its fleet to nine trucks in carbon emission terms.

The fuel itself is produced from waste plant matter and emits no new carbon into the atmosphere. Compared with regular diesel, HVO offers a reduction in carbon emissions by up to 90%.

“We want to be a real decarbonisation leader, so renewable fuels are incredibly important to us. The big advantage of HVO is that our customers can use it without going through much change, and there are no switch costs so for us this fuel is eminently important,” said Fabian Ziegler, CEO of DCC Energy.

Certa distributes heating oil from 22 depots across Ireland as well as supplying commercial fuels and lubricants to a wide range of businesses nationwide. In 2022, the company started to supply HVO to a range of sectors in Ireland as a sustainable alternative fuel to regular diesel.