BuJo burger restaurants in Dublin have  strengthened their sustainability credentials through a biomethane certification process with Gas Networks Ireland.

Gas Networks Ireland introduced biomethane into the gas network in small volumes in 2019, via a gas injection point in Cush, Co. Kildare.

The company is currently preparing to build a second injection facility in Mitchelstown, Co Cork.

Biomethane is a carbon neutral gas produced from farm and food waste by Green Generation in Nurney, Co. Kildare.

GNI is the body responsible for supervision and issuing guarantees of origin for current and new renewable gases under new EU regulations.

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Each certificate represents Gas Networks Ireland’s guarantee to a gas customer that the equivalent amount of renewable gas has been injected into the gas network.

According to GNI: “By providing an objective means of tracking the commercial transactions of renewable gas through the supply chain, the Renewable Gas Registry will help establish trust in the market and confidence in the renewable gas sector, providing certainty for customers and providing an incentive for gas producers to inject renewable gas into the network.”

Chef-led by culinary director Gráinne O’Keefe, BuJo has outlets in Sandymount and Terenure.

“From the outset, we have endeavoured to make BuJo as sustainable as possible and I am really excited that we’re now using gas from renewable sources that has been produced here in Ireland,” said O’Keefe.

“The flame is at the very heart of BuJo as our burgers are chargrilled over fire. Switching to biomethane means an even further reduction in our carbon footprint.”

BuJo sources its beef and chicken from Bord Bia ‘Quality Assured’ and ‘Origin Green’ certified Irish family farms and all of its packaging is compostable.

The government signalled recently that some of the funds raised through the Carbon Tax will go towards encouraging more domestic biomethane production.

The stated aim is that biomethane will eventually amount to 10% of gas supply.

Gas Networks Ireland’s Sean Crowley said there has been significant growth in demand from businesses looking to source sustainable and indigenous fuel alternatives.

Photo: Gráinne O’Keefe with GNI’s Sean Crowley. (Pic: Orla Murray/Coalesce)