INDUSTRY NEWS The 27 January 2014 marked the day of the official launch of the Scientific Advisory Council (SAC) under the aegis of the European Biogas Association. With seven members on board, the SAC work will be dedicated to the…
ADBA MEMBER NEWS Purac Puregas Ltd are delighted to announce that we can now provide our customers with free assistance in securing Swedish Export Credit funding. Our partnership with ReCap allows our customers free access to their entire range of…
Following new Ofgem statistical releases on FIT deployment, we have updated the FIT Deployment & Degression page of our website. With two months of data now available for 2014, we can start to assess deployment against the degression triggers. For…
12,100 skilled jobs could be created if food waste was banned from landfill, according to recent figures from the think-tank Green Alliance. The publication cites an AD plant manager, with skills in SCADA training and HNC engineering as an example…
INDUSTRY NEWS Biomethane can replace 3% of the European natural gas consumption by 2030 – this is one of the results presented by three biomethane projects: BIOMASTER, GreenGasGrids and Urban Biogas during their final workshop in March in Brussels. For…
ADBA MEMBER NEWS Prism Planning and JFS & Associates are celebrating after getting planning permission for a 1.5MW anaerobic digester to process food waste from nearby Leeming Bar. The consent was granted by North Yorkshire County Council at their planning…
The European Parliament and the Council last week agreed an infrastructure plan for alternative fuels requiring Member States to establish publicly available CNG and LNG stations within certain distances. The compromise agreement does not live up to the Commission’s initial…
The European Commission has published an updated draft of its state aid guidelines, which had originally proposed to limit support available to Feed-in Tariff projects to below 1MW. While the latest draft disappointingly proposes to further limit support available under…
ADBA PRESS RELEASE Welcoming the opportunity to address the AD industry at the sector’s largest dedicated event, UK AD & Biogas 2014 (2-3 July), Partha Vasudev, Vice President Waste & Bioenergy, Green Investment Bank (GIB), has been confirmed a key…
A parliamentary committee is undertaking an inquiry into growing the circular economy, presenting an excellent opportunity to make the case for the economic and environmental benefits that anaerobic digestion (AD) and separate food waste collections can deliver. The Environmental Audit…