ADBA’s Planning and Permitting Working Group met at Wardell Armstrong’s offices in Stoke on Trent on 27 March, and held a Permitting Workshop for members to discuss issues with the Environment Agency. Planning Issues The group discussed recent planning decisions…
In response to growing public interest in renewable energy in the province, the Northern Irish government has announced that they will publish monthly data on renewable energy planning applications. Figures broken down by local authority show that since April 2011…
As of 1 April, new Feed-in-Tariff (FIT) and Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) tariff rates are in place to reflect the rate of inflation during the last year. Support under the RHI for all biomethane injection projects and biogas combustion projects…
John Hayes MP has surprisingly left his post as DECC energy minister, to be replaced by Michael Fallon MP who will also remain a minister in the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS). This was a particularly unexpected announcement…
The Welsh Government is consulting on changes to their national planning policy which are aimed at delivering waste infrastructure. The most relevant change on first reading is the proposed introduction of a Waste Planning Assessment (WPA) which could allow AD…
In a report titled ‘Why we need landfill bans’ leading environmental think tank Green Alliance have demonstrated that UK organisations could save £508m in avoided landfill costs and £693m could be generated in the value recovered from sending our food…
Following on from their target of delivering 20% of European energy from renewable sources, the European Commission (EC) has published a Green Paper which is looking to set a target for 2030 by the end of the year, which it…
As we set out in our last update, WRAP has published recommendations from three technical projects to inform the consultation of PAS 110 which will follow in the summer. These projects examined the digestate stability (RBP) test, the near universal…
DECC announced on 26 March that the biomethane and biogas tariffs will be excluded from the review of RHI tariffs taking place this spring. We welcome this news, on the basis that there are a significant number of projects in…
The European Parliament’s ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) Committee report on indirect Land Use Change has been published. The report suggests removing the proposed cap on conventional biofuels and proposals for iLUC reporting, instead suggesting the following increasing sub-target for…