ADBA's second regulator day on Thursday 16 October, hosted by Walker Morris in Leeds, featured a packed agenda of environmental and health and safety regulatory issues. Our notes of the key issues discussed are provided below. BREF EA updated…
The Environment Agency have reported that they have now received 24 questionnaires out of an expected 71 for the UK. These questionnaires will provide the information which the Commission will use to set new permitting rules for large waste plants. The…
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…
On Monday I attended a workshop held by Ofgem on sustainability criteria for the RHI. I was pleased that Ofgem had gone to the effort of organising a workshop specific to the biogas and biomethane sector and it allowed our…
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…
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…
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…
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…