Our annual Forum for the research and innovation (R&I) community in the AD sector is shaping up to be unmissable. The event will bring together the academic, industrial and public sectors to debate the latest research on subjects like maximising…
In July, BEIS published statistics on the use of natural gas in the UK[1]. Of note is the decline in the use of gas for electricity generation since 2011, from 309 TWh to 212 TWh in 2015. This trend may…
In response to today’s announcement regarding Hinkley, ADBA's Chief Executive, Charlotte Morton, commented: It is remarkable that the government has proposed a subsidy of £0 / MWhe for new baseload waste AD whilst offering a subsidy of £55 / MWhe…
SuperBIO is an innovation project supported through the EU Horizon2020 funding programme. The €3.8 million project supports the development of promising industrial value chains in the bioeconomy. It therefore engages with the EU bio-based business community. The project provides 10 different…
Day 2 of our UK AD & Biogas R&I Hub features a challenge to academia and industry on digestate: how to maximise the use of nutrients. WRAP have assessed the proportion of digestate nutrients are not taken up by plants…
Our industry magazine, published this week, has highlighted how AD plants should be optimised, with tips from the experts. Areas mentioned included: Metering of feedstock input volume and measurement of dry matter Metering and analysis of gas pH monitors Temperature…
Day two of this year's R&I Hub at UK AD & Biogas will have a big focus on indigestible material in food waste. Why is this important? Food waste AD has developed dramatically in the last three years: the volume…
The news for future developments in on-farm AD seems pretty gloomy at the moment: no extra support coming through FITs, caps to the levels of deployment, and long waits between the time you apply for and receive pre-accreditation. On top…
As you may well be aware, DECC have today released their consultation on the future of the Feed-in Tariff for AD. See our briefing on this here. Our public reaction can be found here. We had expected this consultation would…
We are currently writing up our Market Report for UK AD & Biogas 2016. We're going to include a chapter on innovation in the AD sector, focussing on any announcements that have been made in the last six months (since…
