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…
Biogen’s GwyriAD food waste anaerobic digestion (AD) plant near Caernarfon has become the first in Wales to achieve the Publicly Available Specification PAS 110 status for its biofertiliser. The 11,500 tonne anaerobic digestion (AD) plant at Llwyn Isaf completed commissioning…
We have been liaising with Ofgem on the eligibility of biogas plants for RHI heat. Scenarios in which existing digesters serving existing CHPs (built before December 2013) have added additional CHPs were expected to be eligible for the scheme following…
Senior industry representatives have called on the political parties to set a robust policy framework to support the use of biomethane in transport ahead of next May’s General Election. Speakers at ADBA’s second UK Biomethane & Gas Vehicle Conference hosted…
We held our latest meeting with DECC on biomethane sustainability criteria yesterday, following discussions over the past few weeks. Notes from this meeting are below. Meeting with DECC, 11 September 2014 DECC: Andy Davey, Pete Burnill (RHI team); Philip Sargent…
I am delighted to announce that we will again be producing an annual Members’ Directory for 2014/15. This ‘Who’s Who’ of the anaerobic digestion sector will be sent out for free to every ADBA member, distributed to more than 3000…
Following pressure from operators, the EA have provided clarity on their approach to ‘crop residues’ used in AD plants. The new briefing note can be downloaded here. This clarifies their definition of crop residues as follows:We are referring here to…
AHVLA is in the process of migrating the contents of its web based guidance on complying with animal byproducts regulations to the Gov.uk platform. The intention of this migration is to place all Government information on a single web platform…
SEaB Energy submitted their ground-breaking idea after RBS called on innovators and small businesses (SMEs) to come forward with new eco-ideas for the bank’s 2,500 buildings around the UK. SEaB Energy, with offices in Southampton and a prototyping facility in…
It is extremely disappointing to receive this Reply from Amber Rudd MP which says that Government does not intend to extend the FiTs pre-accreditation period. This was a reasonable request, not least in the light of the unexpected changes and…