Hot Didely Dogs is going 100% sustainable biofuel powered

As founding members of the Australian Biofuels and Energy Security Initiative, the management team at Hot Didely Dogs are taking a proactive stance against rising input costs for operators in the food industry.

Hot dog trailer and container sized generator with hot didely dogs staff and other supporting members posing for the camera in a factory — Jay, Danny and Wally - Members of the ABESI circular economy program

Hot Didely Dogs’ management team are co-founders of ABESI, the Australian Biofuels and Energy Security Initiative, a wholly private sector R&D and advocacy think tank aimed at facilitating healthy development of Australia’s sustainable fuel logistics industry.

Liquid fuels, as the critical dependency in every one of our industrial and agricultural supply chains, including all so-called “renewables”, have been completely overlooked by government and industry at large in the discussion about sustainability.

From Transport to Energy

Hot Didely Dogs has operated all our fleet vehicles on B100 (100%) biodiesel produced solely from waste cooking oil since December 2022. We have now teamed up with Renewable Baseload Generators, Pro-Green Biofuels and Staunch Machinery Australia to cooperate in a pilot circular economy program for Australia’s first ever range of 100% biodiesel-ready generators.

Head of Renewable baseload generators and industry representatives enjoying drinks while talking in front of the new biodiesel generator — Danny Williams of Renewable Baseload Generators is a keen Didely supporter

The Unacknowledged Threat - Contracting Energy Supply

Liquid fuels, as the critical dependency in all our industrial and agricultural supply chains, including all so-called “renewables”, have been completely overlooked by government and industry at large in the discussion about sustainability. This leaves Australia heavily exposed to volatile international supply and pricing forces with consequential downstream impacts on food and energy security for all Australians. As a food service business, we at Hot Didely Dogs know only too well the difficulties faced by hospitality business owners due to ever increasing food and energy prices. All this is in addition to the health and environmental effects of our continued dependence on fossil fuels.

Two men in work clothes in a factory posing in front of a 20 foot container generator — Wally Younan (left) of Staunch Machinery Australia with Danny Williams (right) of Renewable Baseload Generators at the public showcase of their new 330kVA Scania-powered 100% biodiesel-ready generator in Victoria, Australia

From Waste to Worth - Closing the Loop

Waste cooking oil is problematic for food truck operators who must take their oil back to home base and then find a means of ecologically disposing of it. Hot Didely Dogs provides a free collection point at festivals and events, where we can aggregate used oil for refining into fuel-grade biodiesel to advance ABESI’s lobbying activities. We are planning a calendar of carbon neutral touring dates with Biodiesel Generator's biggest 330kVA Scania-powered unit that will be fuelled by 100% sustainable biodiesel. Our goal is simple, turn the unwanted waste outputs from public events back into clean, productive inputs and “close the loop” at the local level to achieve carbon neutrality and energy supply chain efficiency.

Further down the track we have plans to acquire a series of smaller biodiesel generators for private functions and smaller events. Feel free to come and meet us at any of our public appearances (details on the Calendar tab) for more info about this exciting program – nothing gives us the warm fuzzies more than pointing out that the yummy barbecue smell coming from our rig is in fact the exhaust from the gennie!

Information about ABESI and their contributing partners can be found at the following sites: