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Hydrogen fuel cells from biogas project

The European Commission Horizon 2020 programme has announced funding for a project to use biogas from a sewage treatment works in Italy to produce hydrogen fuel cells for electricity generation. See further details here.  Hydrogen fuel cells could offer potentially to store energy and generation high efficiency power on site…

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RHI sustainability criteria come into force on 5 October

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Sustainability criteria have today been introduced to the RHI. From today, all fuel (including biogas and biomethane produced from non-waste feedstocks) will have to meet new rules in order to be eligible for the RHI. The Ofgem website has all the details on how to comply, including updated guidance for…

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Tags: sustainability criteria, biomass sustainability criteria, crops, will bushby, Ollie More, biomethane, Renewable Heat Incentive, RHI

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New R&D funding available

The Bio-based Industries (BBI) Consortium, a public-private partnership led by the European Commission, has announced a further €106m of funding available for research and development in the bioeconomy sector. This is part of the €3.6bn euros to be made available up to 2020 (including €1bn…

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Tags: R&D, r&d funding, Ollie More, AD R&D

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ADBA market analysis page update

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We have updated our market analysis page. This includes the latest information we held in August on the plants moving through the planning process. This also includes our July market report.  If you have any queries on the page or are able to provide any market information which may…

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FIT deployment data published: 7.5 MWe uptake at 0.5-5 MWe scale in July

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July saw over 7.5 MWe of new capacity (not pre-accredited) receive full accreditation in the 0.5-5 MWe scale of the Feed-in Tariff (FIT) in July. This is a big increase in capacity for an individual month. This was across 12 fully-accredited plants, which indicates that the average capacity was 0.626 MWe. …

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Tags: Ollie More, Feed-in-Tariff, degression, FIT degression, fit deployment, FITs, biogas, anaerobic digestion, FIT

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New research on how farm-based digestate should be stored

New research by Rothamsted and the University of Milan has looked at ammonia emissions from farm-based digestate: these can increase by separating the liquid and solid fractions of digestate, depending on how the liquid fraction is then stored.  See more here. Ammonia emissions cause global warming and also reduce…

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Tags: r&d dissemination, R&D, Ollie More, digestate, biogas, anaerobic digestion

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Cacti for biogas? New research tackles a prickly issue

The New Scientist has published an article on using cacti for biogas. Mike Mason, an academic from Oxford University who attended ADBA's R&D Forum in April, suggests that the 300 million hectares of underused semi-arid land in the world could be used for the production of cacti, which…

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Tags: cacti, R&D, r&d dissemination, anaerobic digestion, Africa

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Three research projects on seaweed/macroalgae for AD

A research paper has just been published on using seaweed for biofuels, including for biomethane production. Professor Jerry D Murphy of University College Cork and others conducted the research "to assess the effect of ensiling of seaweed (5 species) on  biomethane production." The results can be found here. Much…

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Tags: R&D, r&d dissemination, Ollie More, innovate uk, seaweed, macroalgae, research

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Ofgem sustainability criteria biomethane potential tool

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Ofgem have provided us with a table of biogas yields that can potentially be used as part of the calculation for sustianability criteria measurement. See here.  Under the sustainability criteria it is often necessary to apportion the amount of biogas that is produced from one feedstock compared to other…

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Tags: Ollie More, Ofgem, biomethane, RHI, sustainability criteria, biomass sustainability criteria, crop operators

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New EU and UK funding available for energy R&D projects

We have been informed of new funding available from the European Commission and UK Government on energy research and development. See here for all the details. Anaerobic digestion and biogas projects can apply under the energy streams of the various funding calls, with the amount of funding available in the…

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Tags: R&D, r&d funding, EU Commission, EU, Horizon 2020

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New European Commission research on phosphorus recovery from sewage sludge

The European Union's research and innovation unit are conducting research on 10 new technologies that can extract phosphorus from sewage sludge. Currently only 2,000-3,000 tonnes of struvite (a phosphorus-rich mineral) are produced in the EU each year, while sewage sludge contains the potential to supply 20% of the EU's phosphorus…

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Tags: r&d dissemination, Ollie More, phosphate, phosphorous, phosphorus, R&D

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RHI degression update - future tariff reductions not clear

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DECC have released data on the RHI degression mechanism. We have put together the attached update for members.

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Tags: DECC, Ollie More, anaerobic digestion, biomethane to grid, renewable financial incentives, biomethane, RHI

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Anaerobic Digestion Network (ADNet) award proof of concept funding

The Anaerobic Digestion Network (ADNet) - a network of academic and industrial partners which ADBA is part of - has awarded three grants to researchers focussing on different aspects of the AD process. Each aspect is really exciting in themselves - but it is also of value to the industry…

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Tags: r&d dissemination, R&D, digestate, anaerobic digestion, biogas

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National Grid query to ADBA: how reliable is AD?

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We've been in discussion with National Grid about demonstrating the role that AD can play in supporting the electricity grid. As part of this, they are interested to find out more about the generation profiles/ load factors are for a number of technologies including AD.  Being a…

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Tags: national grid, baseload, grid connection, anaerobic digestion, Ollie More

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National Grid acknowledges AD 40 TWh potential figure

AD potential   In its Future Energy Scenarios planning document published today the National Grid uses ADBA’s figure of 40 TWh as the potential for biomethane. They say 4 billion cubic metres of biomethane could be produced. This equates to 40 TWh - the figure ADBA have been using for some…

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