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Farmers’ appetite for AD on the rise

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The use of anaerobic digestion (AD) by English farmers to treat their wastes is firmly on the rise, shows a latest report from the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (DEFRA). Results from DEFRA’s Farm Practices Survey 2017, which focused on practices relating to greenhouse gas mitigation, shows…

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Tags: anaerobic digestion, biogas, farm AD, Defra, farm slurry, crop feedstocks, UK AD & Biogas, emiliano lewis

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RHI consultation: government response published

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The Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS) has today released its much anticipated response to the RHI consultation. The release of the intentions for the scheme going forward brings a degree of certainty to the AD industry, with many projects on hold awaiting this crucial decision. The consultation…

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Tags: anaerobic digestion, biogas, biomethane, DECC, beis, consultation, RHI, renewable financial incentives, biogas heat, CHP, digestate, crop operators, food waste operators, thom koller, degression mechanism, crop feedstocks, rhi tariff guarantees

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RHI consultation: response submitted

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Yesterday we submitted our response to DECC’s consultation on the RHI. You can download our full response here. Thank you to all our members who participated in the process, took part in our webinars and shared views, data and evidence. Our response makes a number of important arguments,…

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Tags: DECC, RHI, biomethane, biomethane to grid, crop operators, crop feedstocks, food waste operators, biogas heat, biogas, digestate, rhi tariff guarantees, thom koller, Matt Hindle

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RHI consultation response: last chance to comment

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Yesterday we discussed our RHI consultation response with many of you at our members’ meeting, and you can now download our draft responses on the key issues by clicking here. Our summary of the consultation proposals is still available here, and the consultation documents themselves are on DECC's…

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Tags: DECC, RHI, biomethane, biomethane to grid, crop operators, crop feedstocks, food waste operators, biogas, biogas heat, digestate, Matt Hindle, thom koller

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RHI consultation: webinar on tariffs, tariff guarantees and the budget cap - call for your evidence

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Earlier today we held the third webinar in our series on the RHI consultation. This session focused on tariff levels, tariff guarantees and the application process for these, future tariff triggers and the budget cap. For those of you who were unable to take part the session can be watched…

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Tags: DECC, Ofgem, RHI, renewable financial incentives, financial incentives, thom koller, Ollie More, consultation, tariff levels, RHI degression, rhi tariff guarantees, tariff triggers, rhi deployment capping, budget cap, crop feedstocks, crop operators, food waste operators, heat use, members' meeting

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Help shape our view on the future of the RHI

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Following the announcement of the 2016-21 RHI budget in the Spending Review, work within DECC is continuing on the two packages which will dictate the short and longer-term future of the scheme. These are first some immediate regulatory changes to extend the scheme rules in 2016-17, and second preparing for…

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Tags: DECC, RHI, renewable heat, biomethane, financial incentives, renewable financial incentives, Matt Hindle, food waste, crop operators, bioenergy, bioenergy sustainability, bioenergy sustainability criteria, crop feedstocks

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Crops for AD: latest figures

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…

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Tags: Defra, DECC, crop feedstocks, crop operators, crop best practice, anaerobic digestion, biogas, Matt Hindle

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Get involved in our new ‘case for crop feedstocks’

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In 2011, we published a Case for Crop Feedstocks in AD with CLA, NFU, NNFCC and REA. That document was designed to demonstrate the role that crops for AD can play to support discussion around the AD Strategy and Action Plan, and government policy in general. From this autumn, sustainability criteria…

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Tags: case for crop feedstocks, crop operators, DECC, Defra, renewable financial incentives, Matt Hindle, biogas, anaerobic digestion, arable farming, farming, crop feedstocks

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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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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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