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EU End of Waste position paper: comments needed

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As you will have seen in recent updates, European End of Waste proposals are back in focus.  ADBA, ESA and REA have produced a draft joint position paper for consultation with our members, which you can download here. This has already been circulated to our Food Waste Operators…

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Tags: Defra, Wrap, digestate, food waste, End of waste, PAS 110, Matt Hindle, food waste operators

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RHI sustainability criteria: further details

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As our announcement on Tuesday said, DECC have now confirmed the greenhouse gas target which RHI projects will have to meet. Producers will be required to meet the regulations from autumn 2015, which is six months later than planned. This delay is very useful, not least because a number of important…

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Tags: DECC, Matt Hindle, RHI, biomethane, financial incentives, biomethane to grid, sustainability criteria, crop operators

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Crop operators and developers – opportunity to contribute to carbon calculator

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As we come closer to the implementation of sustainability criteria for RO and RHI facilities, work is underway on revisions to the ‘B2C2’ carbon calculator. The B2C2 was developed by DECC to help operators of biomass and biogas sites calculate the carbon footprint of energy they…

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Tags: DECC, biomethane, Matt Hindle, RHI, financial incentives, renewable financial incentives, sustainability criteria, RO, Ofgem, crop operators, crops

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New FIT statistics published: no confirmation of above 500kW degression

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DECC's latest FIT deployment statistics have been published today, and are available here. These show a further 1.3MW of accreditations were approved for sub 500kW projects in September, of which 1MW was pre-accredited. Above 500kW no new capacity was accredited in September, which means total 2014 deployment for 500kW-5MW…

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Tags: DECC, FIT, Matt Hindle, Feed-in-Tariff, renewable financial incentives

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Members’ Meeting discusses FIT, RHI and more

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ADBA members gathered at MMS' offices in central London yesterday for our Members' Meeting, with a number of important subjects on the agenda. Presentations and the policy document will be available soon, but for now please see our notes on the FIT and RHI discussions below.  FIT and small…

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Tags: DECC, FIT, Matt Hindle, RHI, biomethane, Feed-in-Tariff, financial incentives, Ofgem

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Ofgem update on RHI sustainability criteria

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A couple of weeks ago Ollie attended an Ofgem workshop on the implementation of sustainability criteria in the RHI. Ofgem have now provided there own update and conclusions from the meeting, which are reproduced below for information. As I said at our members' meeting yesterday, once RHI sustainability regulations are…

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Tags: DECC, RHI, biomethane, Ofgem, sustainability criteria, Matt Hindle, biomethane to grid, biogas heat

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Regulator Day discusses key environmental issues

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ADBA's second regulator day on Thursday 16 October, hosted by Walker Morris in Leeds, featured a packed agenda of environmental and health and safety regulatory issues. Our notes of the key issues discussed are provided below.   BREF EA updated the meeting on progress towards a Europe-wide 'Best Available Technique'…

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Tags: Matt Hindle, regulator day, permitting, COMAH, digestate, EA, HSE, Environment Agency, food waste operators, crop operators

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Waste plants: are you having a say in the future of permitting?

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The Environment Agency have reported that they have now received 24 questionnaires out of an expected 71 for the UK. These questionnaires will provide the information which the Commission will use to set new permitting rules for large waste plants. The deadline for checking and posting on to the Bureau&rsquo…

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Tags: permitting, BREF, EA, Environment Agency, Matt Hindle

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End of Waste: update from Europe

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Yesterday I attended a European Biogas Association workshop on digestate, focussing on the prospect of end of waste proposals. Along with REA, we spent the morning going through the current UK position in some detail with EBA board members. In the afternoon we had presentations from various commission officials on…

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Tags: Matt Hindle, European Commission, End of waste, digestate, food waste operators

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New ADBA Policy Officer starting on Monday

ADBA's new Policy Officer, Will Bushby, starts on Monday (13 October). Will has joined us from the Chartered Management Institute, a membership organisation where he had a similar role responsible for policy development, government relations, and running working groups.  He will be the main point of contact for you…

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Tags: Matt Hindle, will bushby, working groups, RHI, Feed-in-Tariff, FIT

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European policy update: renewable energy, end of waste and more

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Last week we spent two days at the European Biogas Association conference. We represented the UK industry in a number of discussions, and our notes on the sessions we attended are below.  (A quick note on terminology for those less familiar with Brussels - the European Commission is divided…

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Tags: Matt Hindle, European Commission, renewable financial incentives, digestate, End of waste, european biogas association, transport, biomethane, sustainability, crop operators, food waste operators

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Lib Dems bullish on green achievements, but what’s next?

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This week I spent a couple of days at Lib Dem conference talking to ministers, parliamentarians and other groups about energy and environment policy. Overall, the party is feeling bullish on energy and the environment. The impression that ministers, MPs and peers wanted to give at their conference was that…

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Tags: Matt Hindle, Feed-in-Tariff, biomethane, RHI, financial incentives, FIT, renewable financial incentives, Lib Dems, 2015 election

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Update on Defra and WRAP activity

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In the second half of a day spent largely in Defra, I took part in a AD Steering Group meeting on Monday afternoon. A final report on the AD Strategy and Action Plan is to be published this autumn/winter, and we will be feeding in key achievements and issues…

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Tags: DC-Agri, Defra, digestate, FIT, Matt Hindle, on-farm AD, RHI, RO, small scale AD, Wrap

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Update on permitting, regulation and end of waste

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Earlier today I attended a meeting in Defra on biowaste regulation. Below are some notes and updates for members. For food waste operators, the update below on the development of fertilizer regulations - which builds on European End of Waste Work - is particularly important. Sector Performance The Environment Agency…

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Tags: Defra, EA, End of waste, Environment Agency, environmental permitting, Europe, European Commission, fertilizer directive, Matt Hindle, permitting, regulation, Waste

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Update on biomethane sustainability criteria

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We held our latest meeting with DECC on biomethane sustainability criteria yesterday, following discussions over the past few weeks. Notes from this meeting are below. Meeting with DECC, 11 September 2014 DECC: Andy Davey, Pete Burnill (RHI team); Philip Sargent (Engineer, Strategy and Evidence Group) Trade Associations: Matt Hindle, Ollie More (ADBA);…

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Tags: biomethane, crop, crop feedstocks, DECC, Matt Hindle, RHI, sustainability, sustainability criteria

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