Green Gas: ready to go, ready to scale, ready to deliver Net Zero
This is the decisive decade of decarbonisation and AD is ready to deliver today. The UK generates millions of tonnes of organic wastes (sewage, manures, slurries and other agricultural wastes, food and food & drink processing wastes), most of which goes to landfill: 70% of all wastes worldwide are dumped in the open atmosphere, resulting in serious GHG and public health issues. AD can play a key role in processing these wastes safely, capturing the resultant methane, and recycling them into useful green products. The technology is mature, proven, ready to go, ready to scale, ready to deliver Net Zero. The sector is also futureproofed, compatible with hydrogen infrastructure and well advanced in developing its biorefining capabilities.
The ADBA National Conference will address the hardest to decarbonise sectors of transport, heat and agriculture, as well as look at the financial structures that can best support AD in the Green post-Covid Recovery.
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09:30 Registration and networking
10:00 Welcome and introduction
Charlotte Morton, Chief Executive, Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association
Hosting COP26 without a comprehensive biogas strategy will undermine any strategies for action proposed by the UK – there is no Net Zero without biogas. At ADBA’s 12th National Conference, Charlotte will outline how ADBA is working with the COP26 team to ensure organic waste management is a central theme for Glasgow in 2021.
10:10 Opening keynote speaker: David Hurren, UK CEO, Air Liquide Biogas Solutions Europe
10:30 Panel 1: Realising the potential of biomethane in transport
Speakers include:
Richard Gueterbock, Senior Consultant, Food Chains
Rob Wood, Chief Executive, Gasrec
Moderator:
Thomas Minter, Managing Director, Malaby Biogas
This session will include updates on LEFT (Low Emission Freight Trial) reporting and the consultation on RTFO. The panel will address questions on the viability of biomethane as a transport fuel for shipping or air travel, AD plant-to-pump technologies for road transport fuels, and much more.
10:50 Group discussion
11:20 Comfort break and networking
11:30 Keynote speaker: Alan Whitehead, MP and Shadow Minister, Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy
Labour’s vision of BEIS strategy under a Labour government.
11:50 One-to-one chat, with Matt Hindle and Alan Whitehead.
12:00 Panel 2: The role of AD and Green Gas in decarbonising heat
Speakers include:
Jane Lumb, BEIS
Keith Warburton, Decarbonisation Development Manager, Wales & West Utilities
Sandra Esteves, Director, WCEAD
Moderator:
Matt Hindle, Head of Gas, ENA
This session will look at the contribution needed from biomethane to meet the Government’s commitment to a 68% reduction in emissions by 2030, including the latest updates and developments on the Green Gas Levy and Green Gas Support scheme, and the relationship between biomethane and hydrogen pre and post 2030. The panel will address questions about the role of AD in decarbonising heat and should the government support a transition of CHP to biomethane, among other issues.
12:20 Group Discussion
12:50 Audience Q&A
13:10 Section one concludes
13:10 Networking and Meet the speakers: a breakout networking session where delegates can discuss the issues raised today and meet some of the speakers for informal discussions
13:25 Lunch Break
14:00 Introduction to section two:
Charlotte Morton, Chief Executive, Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association
14:10 Keynote: Jem Woods, Imperial College London
14:25 Panel 3: Agriculture and AD- working together for Net Zero
Speakers include:
Nigel Lee, Business Development Director, Amur (Chair)
Dr Jonathan Scurlock, NFU
Graham Kerslake, Owner, Kerslake Farming
Dr Jem Woods, Imperial College
This session will look at some of the technologies available to on-farm AD, to diversify incomes and help expand the use of AD in the agricultural sector. The NFU recognises the value of AD in capturing and storing CO2 and combatting GHGs in general. We will hear from Biogas Done Right and consider how this project can be adapted for use in the UK. The panel will address questions from ADBA and the audience.
14:45 Group discussion
15:15 Audience Q&A
15:35 Comfort break
15:45 Keynote speaker: Emma Greenwood-George, Business Development Manager, Dorset Biosolutions
16:00 Panel 4: Digestate – How AD impacts clean air
Speakers include:
Tom Gill, Head of Sustainability, Promar International
Stephen Temple, Director, JF Temple & Son
Emma Greenwood-George, Business Development Manager, Dorset Biosolutions
Moderator:
Angie Bywater, Environmental Biotechnology Network Co-Manager at Southampton University, funded by UKRI
Loosing ammonia to the atmosphere can lead to pollution issues and reduces the nutritional value going to the soil. This session will consider ammonia in digestate: will an expanded AD sector lead to greater problems achieving UK reduction targets; how low-emissions spreading techniques and covering digestate stores can reduce ammonia loss to the atmosphere; what is the best support DEFRA can provide. The panel will answer questions from ADBA and set by delegates on the day.
16:20 Group discussion
16:50 Q&A
17:10 Section two concludes and networking
17 February, Section Three: Financing the Sustainable Future, and AD’s role in processing Food Waste
09:30 Registration and networking
10:00 Welcome and introduction to section three:
Charlotte Morton, Chief Executive, Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association
10:10 Panel 5: The impact of new Food Waste regulations for AD in the UK
Introduction, Leanne Williams, Policy Analyst, ADBA
10:15 Speakers:
Sam Hare, Waste & Recycling Policy Advisor, Defra
Mark Richmond, Technical Director, WRM
John Coates, Vice Chair, LARAC
Lee Dobinson, BioteCH4
Moderator:
Leanne Williams, Policy Analyst, ADBA
This session will include speakers from policy, local government, and AD plant operators. They will be looking at potential quantities of food waste available to AD, and some of the challenges and advances involved in food waste collection roll-out, dealing with contamination, and digestate processing.
10:50 Group discussion
11:20 Q&A
11:40 Meet the speakers: a breakout networking session where delegates can discuss the issues raised today and meet some of the speakers for informal chats.
12:00 Panel 6: Financing AD in the Green Recovery
Speakers include:
James Alexander, CEO, UKSIF
Nick Ross, CEO, Iona Capital
Ankur Ajmera, Director, Ancala Partners
Moderator:
Tasneem Mayet, Head of Policy, ADBA
This session will be looking at various aspects of financing AD in the post-Brexit, post-Covid situation. This will include looking at potential new rules, thoughts on the RHI replacement, digestate management as well as Green Bonds and other add-ons that could help make existing AD plants more efficient and/or profitable.
12:25 Group discussion
12:55 Q&A
13:15 Networking
13:30 ADBA National Conference 2021 concludes
