ADBA, REA and a small industry delegation met DECC officials two weeks ago to discuss the Feed-in Tariff review, and particularly issues related to smaller scale AD. A meeting note has now been agreed with DECC, and is available to…
ADBA’s Food Waste Operators Group met in Birmingham on 25 February. Full minutes are being prepared for the group, who finalised the remit following initial discussions in the inaugural meeting in November. In particular, the group is keen to act…
There has been fairly widespread coverage of a refused permit application for a large pig farm in Derbyshire today. Most of the media reports have focussed on the potential odour and pollution from the general operation of the pig farm,…
As I posted in January, the Energy Networks Association (ENA) is planning to consult on options to reduce costs of CV measurement at biomethane sites. This week, the biomethane campaign group we established with ENA met to discuss the consultation…
Earlier this week, Business Secretary Vince Cable announced a new £60m investment by the Green Investment Bank and the Strathclyde Pension Fund (SPF) in community-scale renewable energy projects, through Albion Community Power. According to the announcement GIB has committed to provide up…
As we reported earlier this week, the updated carbon calculator has now been published. Operators or developers who are expecting to use the calculator to demonstrate compliance with sustainability criteria now have the opportunity to start using the new version,…
Ofgem have today released an updated version of the Biomass and Biogas Carbon Calculator, which is available to download (along with an updated user guide) here. The calculator can be used to demonstrate the greenhouse gases emitted by crop-based anaerobic…
The final Feed-in Tariff statistics for applications in 2014 were published this morning. You can download the official statistics here, and we will update details on the members' area as soon as possible. There are no surprises in the final…
The latest edition of WRAP's DC-Agri project bulletin is now available here. This bulletin quantifies a number of the benefits of compost use, and also links to a short video for farmers and agronomists on how to use digestate as a…
Following the RHI biomethane tariff announcement in December, several members have contacted us for clarification on the way in which the first degression of new tariffs will be calculated for July 2015. Our understanding, as explained in our (now updated)…