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…
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…
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…
Labour leader, Ed Miliband, has used the Party’s last conference before next May’s general election to highlight the green credentials at the heart of Labour policy. In his speech, Mr Miliband confirmed that green growth would form part of his…
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…
In the second half of a day spent largely in Defra, I took part in a AD Steering Group meeting on Monday afternoon. A final report on the AD Strategy and Action Plan is to be published this autumn/winter, and…
Earlier today I attended a meeting in Defra on biowaste regulation. Below are some notes and updates for members. For food waste operators, the update below on the development of fertilizer regulations - which builds on European End of Waste…
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…
Biogen’s GwyriAD food waste anaerobic digestion (AD) plant near Caernarfon has become the first in Wales to achieve the Publicly Available Specification PAS 110 status for its biofertiliser. The 11,500 tonne anaerobic digestion (AD) plant at Llwyn Isaf completed commissioning…
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…