New research by Rothamsted and the University of Milan has looked at ammonia emissions from farm-based digestate: these can increase by separating the liquid and solid fractions of digestate, depending on how the liquid fraction is then stored. See more…
Following on from last week's meeting with DECC on the proposed removal of the pre-accreditation from the Feed-in Tariff, DECC have published the slides which were presented to the group. The department has also released a few clarifications to some…
Yesterday DECC held a workshop on the proposed removal of the pre-accreditation from the FIT scheme. Officials outlined the reasoning behind the proposals, which they put down to the recent release of the Office for Budget Responsibility data on the…
DECC will be holding a second consultation event to discuss the proposed removal of pre-accreditation from the Feed-in Tariff. This will be held from 13.30-16.00 on Thursday 13 August 2015, at the COSLA Conference Centre, Verity House, 19 Haymarket Yards,…
On Wednesday, we met with DECC officials to discuss the FIT pre-accreditation consultation. For those that are not aware, DECC has launched a consultation which proposes to remove pre-accreditation for Feed-in Tariff technologies including anaerobic digestion. The first item on…
The Anaerobic Digestion Network (ADNet) - a network of academic and industrial partners which ADBA is part of - has awarded three grants to researchers focussing on different aspects of the AD process. Each aspect is really exciting in themselves…
Do you use waste exemptions? ADBA has been contacted by the Environment Agency (EA) requesting feedback specifically on the waste exemptions regime, which is being reviewed in the wider context of the ‘Cutting Red Tape Review’ (more info here). The…
This week DECC released its monthly deployment data for June. Following on from the previous two months we saw very little uptake. Looking to the degression implications, you may already know we have already hit the 20% annual trigger for plants…
Following on from Matt’s blog on the scrapping of FIT pre-accreditation we have put together the following timetable in which to build a strong response to the consultation as to why we believe FIT pre-accreditation should remain in place. Date…
