Crops for AD: latest figures

Posted on 22 Dec, 2015 by Matt Hindle

Defra's latest statistics on land used for bioenergy were published earlier in December, and are available to download here.

It contains a number of useful statistics, including the relative increases in different feedstocks from 2012-2013 (p 25):

This shows that the industry continues to be waste-dominated, with the support of crop feedstocks for certain projects. 

Defra also presents more up-to-date information from the June agricultural survey, on the intended use of maize grown in the UK. This shows a very small increase in the proportion of maize used for AD:

 

Defra reports that this

equates to 19% of the total maize area in 2015 and 0.7% of the total arable area.

Clearly, in the context of UK agriculture the area of land used for AD crops remains tiny.

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