Ed Davey has called 2013 a ‘record year’ for renewables, with renewable electricity generation increasing 30% on the previous year. This follows the release today of DECC’s latest Digest of UK Energy Statistics, which gives comprehensive statistics across the UK…
ADBA Member News Sunderland-based Purac Puregas Limited today announced the placement of a new contract to supply a CApure biogas upgrading plant. The plant in Wiltshire will upgrade up to 700Nm3/hr of raw biogas from the anaerobic digestion of agricultural…
The Environment Agency have published a paper for discussion on a revised standard rules permit for land spreading. These will be subject to formal consultation in the autumn, but this exercise allows us to see an early version of their…
The new version of the PAS 110 standard for digestate from source-segregated biowaste has been published, and comes into effect today (31 July 2014). It is available on the WRAP website here (you need to enter contact details) or to…
Earlier this month WRAP launched a video to help promote digestate as a renewable fertiliser, which is free for members to use. ‘Using digestate as a renewable fertiliser’ provides practical advice for farmers and agronomists on how to maximise…
We are seeking examples of the UK AD industry exporting technology, skills and materials as part of gathering evidence for a proposal to the UK Technology Strategy Board (TSB) to support research and development of the AD industry. The TSB…
The Technology Strategy Board have made £2.3m of funding available under a programme of support to the Agri-food supply chain industry. The funding is available to set up Knowledge Transfer Partnerships (KTPs). These involve the formation of a partnership between…
Feed-in tariff statistics for June were published yesterday, and can be accessed here. Total deployment now means that the following degression levels will apply to tariffs for new accreditations and pre-accreditations from 1 October 2014: <500kW tariffs will be degressed…
The Environmental Audit Committee has published a report entitled ‘Circular Economy: ending the throwaway society’. The Committee recommends several measures aimed at achieving a ‘circular economy’: A ban on food waste being sent to landfill That the government should support…
Together with the REA, we are working on a new system of data collection and ‘AD Safety Alerts’ for the biogas industry. This is designed to create clear information on incidents to help raise standards and reduce incidents and ‘near…