AD market update
I've updated our market analysis page with details of the latest developments in the AD market. The presentations on the page show that we now have 157 plants outside of the water sector, of which 8 are biomethane. We have…
Lots happening on ADBA Research and Development (R&D)
Our new website now contains an R&D page in the library section which details all the latest R&D funding opportunities potentially available to the sector, as well as a database of academics and their areas of expertise we are developing…
Just £2m of forecast expenditure away from RHI biomethane degression
DECC have just released data indicating that if just £2m more of biomethane preliminary applications are made to Ofgem over September and October, we could see a 5% biomethane degression in the RHI as early as the 1 January 2015. On…
Biomethane campaign: options for deregulation
Yesterday I attended a meeting of the Biomethane Campaign Group, which we set up with the Energy Networks Association and others to tackle the disproportionately high cost of connecting biomethane plants to the grid. See information on the last meeting…
FITs degression statistics – latest on 500 kW – 5 MW degression
DECC have published their monthly figures on FIT deployment. For the sub-500 kWe scale, ‘deployment’ (including pre-accreditations) was already over the amount required to cause a 10% October degression (followed by a further degression in April 2015 to take the…
DECC Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) Industry Advisory Group (IAG)
Today I attended DECC’s Industry Advisory Group (IAG) meeting, at which DECC update industry participants on progress on the RHI and we feed back comments. Some key points were: The biomethane tariff review is scheduled to include a Government response…
Confusion over biogas RHI eligibility
We have been liaising with Ofgem on the eligibility of biogas plants for RHI heat. Scenarios in which existing digesters serving existing CHPs (built before December 2013) have added additional CHPs were expected to be eligible for the scheme following…
Disappointing letter from DECC Minister Amber Rudd on Feed-In Tariff
It is extremely disappointing to receive this Reply from Amber Rudd MP which says that Government does not intend to extend the FiTs pre-accreditation period. This was a reasonable request, not least in the light of the unexpected changes and…
Invite to sustainability criteria RHI workshop – a must-attend event for RHI
We have been lobbying Ofgem to hold a workshop for the anaerobic digestion industry on meeting the sustainability requirements for the RHI. These will be mandatory from Spring for all plants hoping to claim the RHI: biogas and biomethane. They…
Large jump in pre-registration applications pushes RHI biomethane closer to degression
A large jump in the number of preliminary applications to the RHI for biomethane in July has pushed biomethane closer to the “Anticipated expenditure” which, if aligned with deployment across the scheme, could cause a degression trigger on 31 October,…
