MEMBER’S PRESS RELEASE: Third biomethane-to-grid contract for Chesterfield BioGas in Scotland
- farm-based feedstocks once again provide the energy resource - partners work together again on a second project
MEMBER’S PRESS RELEASE: Leicestershire signs food waste recycling deal with Biogen
Leicestershire County Council will be the first local authority to send food waste to Biogen’s £10M Warwickshire anaerobic digestion plant (AD) for conversion into green energy as part of Oadby and Wigston’s successful food waste collection pilot scheme.
MEMBER’S PRESS RELEASE: Local gas from local people, Birmingham homes heated with ‘poo power’
For the first time in the UK, Severn Trent Water has injected the largest quantity of green gas produced from around 2.5 million people’s ‘processed poo’ into gas pipes serving homes in the Birmingham area. Thanks to an innovative treatment…
MEMBER’S PRESS RELEASE: Swedish Cleantech company Malmberg supply the “silver towers” at Minworth
Malmberg are the global market and technology leader in the field of upgrading biogas to biomethane. Minworth is one of four UK plants so far where Malmberg is involved. To date, more than 80 Malmberg COMPACT® upgrading machines have been installed…
Edina completes Coast to Coast charity cycle
In early September, 9 members of staff from Edina completed the Coast to Coast to raise funds for CLIC SARGENT. Currently standing at over £5,200 we are overwhelmed by the response we have had and are delighted to have been involved. A…
From Biogas to Bioresources, why ADBA has widened its remit
ADBA has today announced that it is changing its name with immediate effect to the Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association in response to a rapidly changing political and economic landscape. Central to this decision is the recognition that, as new…
FITs degression statistics – latest on 500 kW – 5 MW degression
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…
Update on Defra and WRAP activity
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…
Update on permitting, regulation and end of waste
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…
DECC Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) Industry Advisory Group (IAG)
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…