Yesterday I attended a European Biogas Association workshop on digestate, focussing on the prospect of end of waste proposals. Along with REA, we spent the morning going through the current UK position in some detail with EBA board members. In…
ADBA's new Policy Officer, Will Bushby, starts on Monday (13 October). Will has joined us from the Chartered Management Institute, a membership organisation where he had a similar role responsible for policy development, government relations, and running working groups. He…
ADBA’s new website features an individual login system for members. This allows employees of member organisations to set up their own login details so they can access the extra content in the members’ area and throughout the site. The new system has…
Last week we spent two days at the European Biogas Association conference. We represented the UK industry in a number of discussions, and our notes on the sessions we attended are below. (A quick note on terminology for those less…
This week I spent a couple of days at Lib Dem conference talking to ministers, parliamentarians and other groups about energy and environment policy. Overall, the party is feeling bullish on energy and the environment. The impression that ministers, MPs…
For the first time in the UK, Severn Trent Water has injected the largest quantity of green gas produced from around 2.5 million people’s ‘processed poo’ into gas pipes serving homes in the Birmingham area. Thanks to an innovative treatment…
Malmberg are the global market and technology leader in the field of upgrading biogas to biomethane. Minworth is one of four UK plants so far where Malmberg is involved. To date, more than 80 Malmberg COMPACT® upgrading machines have been installed…
The Conservative party conference offered only deafening silence when it came to the subject of green policies. With keynote conference speeches devoid of any meaningful references to renewable energy policy and with senior Conservative representation at green energy fringe debates…
Government has today announced that the Contracts for Difference (CfD) budget for low-carbon electricity projects including anaerobic digestion, will increase by £95 million to total £235 million. The CfD is designed to replace the Renewables Obligation but only supports AD projects…
ADBA has today announced that it is changing its name with immediate effect to the Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association in response to a rapidly changing political and economic landscape. Central to this decision is the recognition that, as new…