UK AD industry to call for game-changing research centre at ADBA R&I Forum
The UK AD industry will lay out plans for a Centre for Anaerobic Biotechnology and Bioresources Research at the 7th annual ADBA Research & Innovation (R&I) Forum 2017. The proposed Centre would act as a centre of global excellence and…
Research and Innovation Forum – closing for bookings Monday
Bookings for our sixth Research and Innovation (R&I) Forum will be closing on Monday 4 April at 6pm. We have an excellent line-up of speakers with over 80 peer-reviewed journal articles published between them. We're also delighted that so many…
Reducing the cost to biomethane producers of connecting to the National Transmission System
National Grid have been succesful in winning Ofgem funding to research how to "minimise the cost and time of connections to the National Transmission System (NTS), with particular focus on unconventional gas connections". The £5m project, called "Project CLoCC - Customer…
Energy Game Changer and UK-India and UK-China funding opportunities
Innovate UK, the UK government's innovation branch, is providing funding to support innovation in a number of fields: The Energy Game Changer provides funding of up to £1.5 million in technical feasibility studies to encourage new entrants to the energy sector…
Anaerobic gut fungi and tiny red crystals – the glamour of increasing biogas yields
Two research papers have been published this week on how to improve biogas production. The first considers the glamourous world of herbivore anaerobic gut fungi. Harper Adams and the University of California have been studying the fungi with a view to…
Falling income and increasing regulatory scrutiny: attend the R&I Forum
The AD industry is coming under pressure from multiple fronts: Feed-In Tariffs have halved and biomethane in the Renewable Heat Incentive could do the same over the next year; Levy Exemption Certificates have been scrapped altogether; Wholesale energy prices are…
Research & innovation (R&I) Forum 2016 – are you innovating?
We at ADBA want to hear from all the innovators in the sector. What technologies will change the sector? As an industry, we now need to innovate to continue to grow. Your industry needs you! And we want to showcase…