As we reported earlier this week, the Green Investment Bank has published its first market report on the AD sector. Most of the headlines generated concentrated on the statement that “GIB is actively investigating the opportunity to directly participate in…
At our members’ meeting in April, one of the key topics we discussed was the impact of Feed in Tariff degression, especially at the smaller scale market. You can also read more about our response to this in the latest…
The European Commission this week launched a review of key targets in the Waste Framework Directive, the Landfill Directive and the Packaging and Packaging Waste Directive. The review is scheduled by the provisions of the directives, and aims to bring…
The Energy Bill’s Report Stage and Third Reading took place on 3rd and 4th June. The Bill has now passed to the House of Lords, with the Second Reading (where the bill is debated in the upper house for the…
My week started with two major meetings on end of waste development: the kick-off of the BSI Steering Group for the revision of PAS 110 on Monday, and a European Biogas Association workshop on the development of European End of…
The European Parliament’s ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) Committee report on indirect Land Use Change has been published. The report suggests removing the proposed cap on conventional biofuels and proposals for iLUC reporting, instead suggesting the following increasing sub-target for…
At least it doesn’t take long to make it through all of the green (and not so green) measures in today’s budget. The Chancellor’s statement that “creating a low-carbon economy should be done in a way that creates jobs –…
WRAP has published a series of documents on possible revisions to PAS110, on which they have asked for comments by 5pm on Monday 26 March. This is not a consultation on a revised PAS110, but on the recommendations from three…
On 7 March the UK’s Supreme Court will hear a case against the Defra brought by NGO ClientEarth on the UK’s failure to meet legally-binding standards for nitrogen dioxide (NO2) in 35 of 43 zones across the country. The poor…
Entrants to the growing anaerobic digestion (AD) and biogas sector will greatly benefit from the wealth of information in The Practical Guide to AD produced by the industry association ADBA and launched today [21 Dec]. The first guide of its…
