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Bioenergy sustainability: urgent feedback needed for carbon calculator

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Last week, we met E4tech to go through possible revisions to the carbon calculator which can be used to demonstrate compliance with sustainability criteria in the RO and RHI. This round of changes will be limited, but still covers some important issues – and they need some urgent input…

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Tags: DECC, RHI, crop operators, biomethane, bioenergy sustainability, bioenergy sustainability criteria, crop feedstocks, purpose grown crops, renewable financial, Matt Hindle

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Secondary containment: producing industry-led guidance

ADBA’s Training, Safety and Environmental Management group coordinated a meeting between industry representatives and the Environment Agency this week to discuss secondary containment. We have picked up increasing concerns about onerous requirements in some cases, while the Agency continues to express their concern about containment failure incidents and…

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Tags: EA, best practice, Environment Agency, Defra, Matt Hindle, secondary containment, guidance, crop operators, food waste operators

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Proposed R&D work on digestate as bedding material

As you may know, DairyCo is a levy-funded, not-for-profit organisation working on behalf of Britain's dairy farmers, as part of the Agriculture and Horticulture Development Board. Over the last 18 months, DairyCo has been working with the regulators (Defra, Scottish Government and Welsh Government) and industry stakeholders to help clarify…

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Tags: Defra, R&D, digestate, Matt Hindle, dairyco, r&d dissemination

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Farm Power report identifies potential of on-farm AD

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Forum for the Future have published a report looking at the potential for farm power, which identifies significant potential for farm-based renewable energy, including AD. You can download the report here: http://www.forumforthefuture.org/Farm_Power Forum have identified the potential for up to 1,000MW of AD capacity…

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Tags: FIT, farm AD, farming, on farm ad, crop operators, forum for the future, farm power coalition, Matt Hindle, Defra

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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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