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…
UWE Bristol has just launched two funding schemes for businesses across the South West: Innovation 4 Growth (Round 2): Funds up to 35% of R&D project costs with grants of between £25k and £150k USW Innovation Vouchers: Provide 40% ‘cashback’…
Today I attended an Energy Networks Association Biomethane Working Group meeting, which is a group we met up with the Energy Networks Association to bring together the gas distribution networks, ourselves and the REA and to work on making regulation…
Concerns over energy supply and climate change are becoming ever more important issues in the public’s eyes, with 53% identifying these two areas as one of the top three challenges the UK is facing – up by 10% since respondents…
WRAP’s £3m small scale on-farm AD fund has today been expanded to allow farmers to apply for a loan of up to £400,000 to build plants up to 250kW treating farm manures and slurries. This follows the launch of the…