The Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) has welcomed the publication today of the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy’s response to its consultation on the Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI). Commenting on the announcement, ADBA Chief Executive Charlotte Morton…
The UK now has almost 90 plants injecting green biomethane into the gas grid, double the number this time last year, according to a new report published by the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) yesterday [8th December]. ADBA’s December…
In our response to the RHI consultation this summer we pushed for the biogas heat tariffs to be reviewed alongside those for biomethane. Following the announcement from BEIS on degressions to biomethane injection and biogas heat last week we have…
BEIS released an update of the RHI scheme degression, taking effect on the 1st January 2017. In this degression biomethane will see a degression of 10% and biogas will see a 25% degression. We are still waiting for the government response to the…
The Chancellor's first autumn statement was long on doomsday economic forecasting and short on white rabbits, dividing lines or really and kind of serviceable metaphor. While there may be plenty of changes the AD sector would like to see in government…
Government has today released a consultation on the future of heat in non-domestic buildings, wherein it acknowledges that “new policies on heat and energy efficiency will be crucial to meeting the fourth and fifth Carbon Budgets.” You can access the…
The AD industry gathered in London for ADBA’s Members’ Meeting on Monday, for discussions on a range of industry, policy and political discussions. Political context After an introduction from Charlotte, ADBA Strategic Adviser Chris Huhne shared his thoughts on the…
Last November, government announced over £300m of funding for heat networks over the next five years, expected to leverage £2billlion of additional capital investment and lead to the construction of hundreds of heat networks in urban and rural areas of…
Last week I represented ADBA at the Renewable Heat Industry Advisory Group, which meets to work with government on the development of renewable heat policy – and in the past week the policy team has also held one-to-one meetings with…
BEIS have released the latest RHI degression mechanism data. The scheme still remains above expenditure and in the past month both biogas and biomethane remain over the forecast expenditure. At the end of October BEIS will be announcing the next tariff…