This week IEA Bioenergy Task 37 held a free webinar on an interesting piece of research on methane emissions from AD plants; this is a topic which is becoming of interest to policy-makers in the UK as methane is a…
The Future Billing Methodology is an Ofgem funding 'proof of concept' project looking into the Flow Weighted Average Calorific Value (FWACV) billing regime to investigate the impact of the injection of volumes of gas with calorific values (CV) that are significantly higher or…
ADBA has been asked to invite its members to exhibit at a forthcoming display of green energy technology in Parliament. Hosted by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Renewable and Sustainable Energy, parliamentarians will be invited to come and meet those…
On 1 April 2016, new budget caps were introduced to the RHI scheme which "allow the Government to close the scheme to new applications at short notice, where the Government determines that there is a risk of the scheme overspending in…
Last year ADBA's Policy Manager Thom Koller spoke at a farming event hosted by crop breeder and ADBA member KWS UK. The event was covered by Farming Sunday, a half-hour TV magazine programme for farmers and agribusiness, broadcast on Sky Digital channel…
Last week, Charlotte Morton (Chief Executive) and I headed to Edinburgh for a packed day of meetings with contacts in the Scottish AD sector. We look forward to continuing these discussions with others at our upcoming Scottish National Conference, which…
Last month, the Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA) launched its pioneering AD Certification Scheme (ADCS) – a forward-thinking initiative that aims to drive operational best practice across the co- and tri-generation industries. Duncan McPherson, finance director at CooperOstlund, believes…
If your accreditation application is for a generating station that is off grid or has zero export capacity, please be aware that there is an additional requirement for an Independent Technical Assurance Report (ITAR). Ofgem have notified to us that…
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) has today published its independent assessment of the UK’s Clean Growth Strategy, the Government’s recent announcement of around 100 policies, proposals and plans. This report, available to download here, assesses the Government’s latest set…
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) is conducting a review of bioenergy, which will review work undertaken in 2011 into the potential role of bioenergy in meeting UK carbon budgets through to 2050. You can read the full terms of…