Defra’s launch of their response to the consultation on the Waste Prevention Programme for England was launched this week. Food waste remains a major focus, although there are few new measures as the government commits to continuing to support voluntary…
Those AD plants considered “waste operations” under the Environmental Permitting Regulations (EPR) will no longer need to obtain planning permission before applying for an environmental permit. This announcement has come in Defra’s response to a consultation making a number of…
Proposals for renewable energy in today’s Autumn Statement had largely been trailed in yesterday’s announcements by DECC. There is one interesting line for the biomethane transport sector, however, on page 49 of the document published by HM Treasury:To incentivise a…
DECC’s response document to last year’s consultation on ‘Non-Domestic Renewable Heat Incentive: Improving support, increasing uptake’, has been published, setting out a number of changes including support for biogas combustion above 200kWth. The full document is available to download here,…
The British Standards Institution is expected to release a draft of the new PAS 110 standard for public consultation this week. Along with the consultation will be a PDF document which provides information on the changes to requirements on PTEs,…
As expected, the kick-off meeting for the European BREF process - which could see major changes to permitting for AD plants - took place in Seville last week. The EA’s Howard Leberman has sent us some initial notes on the…
New Feed in Tariff statistics were published on Friday, and the FIT deployment and degression section of the members’ area has now been updated. During October three 499kW AD plants were accredited to receive FITs, with no deployment above 500kW.…
ADBA’s Training and Safety Working group meeting this week was kindly hosted at Bore Hill Digester by Malaby Biogas, and concluded with a tour of the plant from director Thomas Minter. The meeting started with an update on the policy…
The kick-off meeting for the BREF process takes place in Seville next week. From this point we will start to have a clearer idea of what the Commission is likely to propose, and where we will need to concentrate our…
Our work on addressing Feed in Tariff degression is continuing. As DECC have not yet started a process to put in place the mechanisms that the industry groups have proposed, it is now likely to be too late for these…
