The Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) degression mechanism for both biomethane and biogas depends on four factors, which are calculated quarterly: The forecast spend for each individual technology (e.g. biogas, biomethane) for the following 12 months, based on pre-accreditations, deployment and…
Last year Greg Barker MP, the then Minister for Energy, challenged the AD industry to innovate and cut the costs of generating renewable energy. This was following his decisions not to consider reviewing the small scale FITs tariff. Since then it's…
Two years ago DECC awarded £1m funding to a project that aimed to use waste reeds and rushes from wetland nature reserves for bioenergy: either through AD or direct biomass combustion. The results of that are starting to come through. The…
Yesterday I attended, on behalf of ADBA, the UK AGM of the International Energy Agency (IEA) Task 37 on Biogas. It was useful to see how the Task is bringing together researchers from across Europe to disseminate what research has…
The AD Network has opened its Proof of Concept funding stream to applications, with a closing date of 27 February. Up to £60,000 can be applied for to demonstrate concepts in one of the "focus areas" the AD Network supports -…
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…
Horizon 2020 is the main European Commission funding programme supporting research and development in the EU. It is aimed not just as academia but also industry. Although significant amounts of funding are available, it can be a dauntingly-complex area to…
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…
The Guardian reported this weekend on using waste co2 from biogas plants to produce additional methane, in combination with hydrogen produced from waste electricity generation. This kind of project will become increasingly important as the intermittancy of the electricity grid…
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 -…
