The world is in continuous development and BTG wants to contribute to it. Our expertise, product development and services are part of various themes.
Energy transition
Fossil fuels have been used on a large scale to generate energy since 1870. This no longer can be justified. However, switching overnight is not feasible, as society has used fossil fuels for over 150 years. The energy transition takes time and requires a great deal of innovative thinking and determination. BTG has been actively involved for over 35 years.
Sustainability
Sustainability means meeting our own needs without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs. Awareness is growing, however realisation requires time. BTG implements sustainability in all its aspects as much as possible. Both in our own business operations and in the nature of the projects and the research that BTG carries out.
Circular economy
Nature provides us with many beautiful raw materials and materials. Nowadays biomass, also referred to as 'bio-based raw material', is a natural raw material which an important part of our society is built upon. Our challenge is to handle our bio-based raw materials in a sustainable and sensible way and to prioritise these materials for high-value applications.
CO2
Our enormous global energy demand places a burden on Mother Earth due to enormous emissions of CO2. The current concentration is more than 400 ppm. As the CO2 concentration increases, our atmosphere becomes more and more like a greenhouse. Solutions are therefore urgently needed. These include, for example, the capture of CO2, storage and utilisation.
Legislation
The (renewable) energy sector is a highly regulated sector. Changing our energy system and working towards a sustainable circular and biobased economy requires close coordination between industry and governments to ensure that new legislation and regulations are appropriate and effective. BTG continuously contributes to better legislation.
Bio-based
Nature provides us with many beautiful raw materials and materials. Biomass is a natural raw material on which an important part of our society is built. Even the fossil fuels are made from biomass with the help of the sun. Our challenge is to handle our bio-based raw materials in a more sustainable way than in the past and to prioritise these materials for high-value applications.
Transportation
Transportation is responsible for a large part of total greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. With the company BTG-NeXt, founded in 2019, BTG focuses on a 100% drop-in fuel for shipping. This advanced biofuel will be marketed by using our proprietary pyrolysis process. The intermediate products can be used in existing refineries to replace increasingly higher percentages of fossil oil. In this way, heavy industry can be made more sustainable step by step and in an affordable manner.
Industry
The industry has made capital-intensive investments to keep plants running for 30-40 years. Sustainability should therefore be realised in increments. Offering investment security is of utmost importance to achieve large-scale sustainability. BTG works on substantive processes to help the industry with this, but also contributes to making the industry more sustainable through various branch organisations and other committees.
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BTG is developing a biobased economy in the Netherlands and Europe.