RHI Tariff Guarantees Consultation
As you may know, DECC have recently been looking into the idea on how a tariff guarantee for the RHI could work, should the Government decide to make a guarantee available from April 2016. The main aim of a tariff…
Sub-100 kWe Feed-In Tariff ADBA cost exercise
We believe that cost evidence is likely to support the case to introduce a new tariff for AD electricity plants of 100 kWe and under. We are working to establish what a tariff would be for this level, as well…
RHI biomethane degression clarified
Following the RHI biomethane tariff announcement in December, several members have contacted us for clarification on the way in which the first degression of new tariffs will be calculated for July 2015. Our understanding, as explained in our (now updated)…
Biomethane campaign: consultation on reducing CV measurement regulation nears
Last week I represented ADBA at a meeting of the biomethane campaign we founded with ENA to break down regulatory barriers to the biomethane to grid market. The main focus of the meeting was to discuss an upcoming consultation on…
Gate Fees: gathering better industry information
Accurate information about gate fees is vital to AD policy development. At present the annual WRAP gate fees report is the best public source of information available, but it has previously been based on a very limited set of sources,…
Biogas and biomethane sustainability: calculator changes and policy development
As we mentioned several times on these blogs towards the end of last year, we spent a large amount of time with some members contributing to the development of the biomass and biogas carbon calculator. Thank you to those members…
DECC RHI degression data published – large biomethane uptake continues
DECC have released data on their RHI 'Estimated commitments' page showing that the large uptake of biomethane in the RHI continued in November. The forecast expenditure for biomethane is now way above the level forming part of the calculation for…
Boost in small scale AD before tariff cut
DECC has released Feed-in Tariff (FIT) deployment data for November 2014 which highlights that many developers made pre-accreditation applications in September in order to avoid the full force of Feed-in Tariff cuts, which are brought about by the degression policy. …
RHI sustainability criteria regulations published
Earlier this week, the government laid new RHI regulations covering sustainability criteria. These are available in full here, for those who enjoy reading Statutory Instruments in full. The regulations are now passing through Parliament, and assuming no problems in that…
Feed-in tariff data published – surge in pre-accreditation applications in September
DECC have released Feed-in Tariff (FIT) deployment data for November 2014. We already knew about the expected further 10% cut to the Feed-In Tariff in April 2015 for sub-500 kWe plants and the extra 5% cut to the 500kWe -…