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Local communities to be offered a stake in new renewable energy projects

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Earlier this week the UK’s renewable energy industry launched a new initiative, supported by the Energy Secretary Ed Davey, to give local communities the opportunity to invest in local renewable energy projects. When Mr Davey published the Community Energy Strategy in January, he asked the renewables industry and…

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Tags: DECC, renewable uk, Ed Davey, shared ownership, finance, will bushby

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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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Government Agrees RHI Sustainability Criteria

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The government has published further details on sustainability criteria for biomethane, which had been due to commence from April but will now be implemented in autumn 2015.  The criteria will require plants receiving RHI support to demonstrate the carbon savings they are making. ADBA and REA have been working closely…

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Tags: sustainability criteria, biomethane, Derek Sivyer, DECC, GHG emissions, ghg calculator

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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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Government announces £235 million fund for renewable electricity projects

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Government has today announced that the Contracts for Difference (CfD) budget for low-carbon electricity projects including anaerobic digestion, will increase by £95 million to total £235 million. The CfD is designed to replace the Renewables Obligation but only supports AD projects above 5MW. The Secretary of State for Energy …

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Tags: DECC, CfD, Derek Sivyer

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Just £2m of forecast expenditure away from RHI biomethane degression

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DECC have just released data indicating that if just £2m more of biomethane preliminary applications are made to Ofgem over September and October, we could see a 5% biomethane degression in the RHI as early as the 1 January 2015. On its estimated commitments calculation, DECC estimates the amount of expenditure…

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Tags: DECC, RHI, biomethane, Ollie More

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DECC Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI) Industry Advisory Group (IAG)

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Today I attended DECC’s Industry Advisory Group (IAG) meeting, at which DECC update industry participants on progress on the RHI and we feed back comments. Some key points were: The biomethane tariff review is scheduled to include a Government response and Parliamentary process over Winter. The tariff guarantee…

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Tags: DECC, IAG, industry advisory group, RHI

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Confusion over biogas RHI eligibility

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We have been liaising with Ofgem on the eligibility of biogas plants for RHI heat. Scenarios in which existing digesters serving existing CHPs (built before December 2013) have added additional CHPs were expected to be eligible for the scheme following DECC’s ‘clarification note’ some months back. However, Ofgem have now…

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Tags: DECC, eligibility, Ofgem, Ollie More, Renewable Heat Incentive, RHI

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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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New concerns on DECC RHI sustainability criteria

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Since attending a workshop on the RHI sustainability criteria last week we’ve been receiving some worrying signals from DECC over the criteria. We’re concerned about the stage at which the emission saving against the fossil fuel comparator needs to be made for biomethane (i.e. the 125 kg co…

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Tags: DECC, Ofgem, Ollie More, Renewable Heat Incentive, RHI, sustainability, sustainability criteria

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Support for renewables remains strong, DECC survey indicates

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DECC have released a summary of its most recent Public Attitudes Survey (quarterly round 10). This indicates that over three quarters of adults (79%) supported the use of renewable energy sources to generate electricity. This compares to 36% for nuclear. Solar was the most popular form of renewable electricity generation with 82% support, compared…

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Tags: DECC, public attitudes, renewable energy

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Feed-in Tariff guidance for accrediting and commissioning

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As we come closer to the end of the year, we are aware that a relatively large number of projects will be commissioning, accrediting and pre-accrediting to the Feed-in Tariff. In response to some enquiries from members, we have received some additional clarification from Ofgem on a couple of points,…

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Tags: accreditation, commissioning, DECC, degression, Feed-in-Tariff, FIT, Matt Hindle, Ofgem, on-farm AD

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