The New Year is well and truly underway now and there are a handful of consultations deadlines throughout January. The consultations to acknowledge and provide ADBA with feedback on are outlined below. By feeding into ADBA you have your say…
Shortly before Christmas, the government’s department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) released their much anticipated ‘Energy White Paper: Powering our net zero future’. White papers serve to outline a government’s proposals for future legislation. This paper, as its…
The Climate Change Committee (CCC) last week released its monumental report “The Sixth Carbon Budget: The UK’s Path to Net Zero”, which explores five different scenarios that could successfully deliver the government’s carbon neutrality target by 2050. The report’s favoured…
Last week, ADBA’s policy and market analyst, Nick Primmer, and Privilege Finance’s Chief Commercial Officer & CTO, Chris Winward, were invited to present at the UK Sustainable Investment and Finance association’s (UKSIF) annual conference. As the name suggests, the UKSIF…
Since the outbreak of the Covid 19 crisis, Prime Minister Boris Johnson has been a vocal supporter of a green recovery. Both Johnson and Chancellor Rishi Sunak have repeatedly pledged that the rescue packages were going to be green “with…
As the UK Government has stressed the need for increasing low carbon gases in the conventional gas grids we need to consider the importance of biomethane. As an industry we need to ensure biomethane will be quality assured and we…
ABDA recently responded to HM Treasury’s Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR). Carried out once every three years, the review presents an opportunity for representative bodies to propose new or improved policies capable of delivering the government’s various targets. These policy suggestions…
This week, the Department for Transport (DfT) confirmed that it will increase the Renewable Transport Fuel Obligation’s (RTFO) buy-out price from 30p/litre to 50p/litre, to help protect the scheme’s annual carbon savings and support producers of biomethane and other low carbon fuels.…
This week, the department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) released the pivotal “Consultation on a Green Gas Levy”. This seeks to gain feedback regarding the government’s proposed levy on licensed gas suppliers to fund biomethane injection into the…
Last week, ADBA responded to the Treasury Committee’s Parliamentary Inquiry, “Decarbonisation and green finance”, emphasising the need for the government to better allocate funds according to the sustainability of all companies’ operations. For the government to deliver net zero by…
