Ofgem has set out proposals for a new regulatory framework from 2021. The changes are intended to result in savings for customers and lower returns for energy network companies. Savings of over £5 billion for household consumers are expected, or…
Mandy Stoker, Managing Director of environmental consultancy and ADBA member E4Environment, shares her love of cover crops and discusses how they can reduce soil degradation ahead of her presentation at the ADBA Research & Innovation Forum 2018, taking place on the 11th April at the University of Sheffield.
This week I have spent time updating the ADBA Pipeline, including adding the latest AD plants to have commissioned in the country. There are now 600 operational AD plants in the UK, across both the sewage and non-sewage sectors. The AD…
Hopefully all ADBA members will have received the latest issue of AD & Bioresources News in the post by now. This issue focuses on securing AD's future through good practice, with a feature piece on the new AD Certification Scheme. You…
As reported previously, Defra is consulting on a range of proposals relating primarily to waste crime but also to several topics more relevant to AD: Management Systems Technical Competence Financial Competence The proposals relating to these aspects generally involve increasing…
Last year the Department for Transport consulted on reform to the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation (RTFO) and Greenhouse Gas Emissions Reporting Regulations. The main developments of interest to AD are: Increasing the obligation level to 9.75% in 2020, rising to…
The Scottish Government has today published the Climate Change Plan: The Third Report on Proposals and Policies 2018-2032. The Plan sets out the Scottish Government’s action towards meeting emissions reduction targets under the Climate Change (Scotland) Act 2009. It includes…
AD hit the nation's TV screens last week when popular BBC series Escape To The Country included a feature on ADBA member Stephen Temple's Copys Green Farm AD plant. The feature explains what AD is, how it works, and looks…
My July blog last year showed how gate fees for food waste AD operators continued to fall in 2016, according to the latest WRAP gate fees report. We have extracted the WRAP data to show how gate fees, the charges levied…
The UK’s anaerobic digestion (AD) industry has welcomed the endorsement of EU ambassadors for the four legislative proposals of the European Union’s waste package, and called for the UK to sign up to the targets included in the proposals irrespective of its future relationship with the EU.