DECC are looking to hold the series of workshops workshops/events across different parts of the country such as Scotland, the Midlands/Manchester and/or the SW/Wales during June and July. These will offer the opportunity to discuss tariff certainty proposals. If you…
We have made an initial review of the RHI non-domestic regulations currently before Parliament. The regulations are not clear on two vital questions for existing plants: Where a plant had an existing digester pre-December 2013 serving one CHP, and now…
Researchers from ADBA member Lancaster Environment Centre (LEC) and Engineering, in collaboration with Stopford Energy and Environment, the James Hutton Institute and Aqua Enviro (also an ADBA member), have just been awarded funding from NERC under the Resource Recovery from…
We have today published on our Market Analysis page a draft of our database on operational and forthcoming AD plants, including information on capacity, commissioning dates, planning status, feedstocks and location. We hope that this will help members with their…
The Environment Agency have notified us that they are writing to over 1000 holders of waste operation permits that may need to prepare for changes driven by the IED. A full briefing was released on this last month, and although…
At our recent members meeting, several members expressed concern about the length of time it is taking Ofgem to process applications to the Feed-In Tariff (FIT) scheme. We would like to gather more information on the length of time taken…
At the end of last week we held preliminary discussions on the issues we will want to take up with ministers at June’s roundtable meeting with Greg Barker and Owen Paterson. Following the issues raised at our members’ meeting on…
Earlier this week I was in Brussels at a European Biogas Association event on the future of sustainability criteria. Although the development and implementation of criteria for the RO and RHI are of more immediate concern to the UK industry,…
DECC have released data showing that biomethane payments under the RHI are taking off. Estimated payments now exceed £4m from March, a significant increase on February data, although currently some time off from the biomethane triggers being reached. Biomethane has…
Welcome news has arrived for the transport sector this week, with £4m committed to delivering gas refuelling infrastructure and a change to the Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation (RTFO) which will lead to better incentivisation of the direct use of biomethane…