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House of Lords UK energy policy inquiry: help us show that AD is better than Hinkley Point C

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The House of Lords Economic Affairs Committee (EAC) inquiry into the economics of UK energy policy closes next week. You can download our draft response here. Comments are of course welcome. The Committee is considering recent policy interventions and current subsidies in the energy market. It will present a report…

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Tags: economic affairs committee, House of Lords, consultation, energy policy, renewable energy, renewable financial incentives, anaerobic digestion, biogas, biomethane, RHI, FIT, Renewables Obligation, crop operators, food waste operators, energy market design, efficiency, energy bill, hinkley point c, thom koller

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Devil in the detail – the programme for government

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Following last year’s Autumn Conservative Party conference I wrote that, regardless of the lack of green rhetoric, for the renewables industry the devil is in the detail. The Government has now set out its legislative stall in the Queen’s Speech but there is scant detail there…

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Tags: government, queen's speech, energy bill, onshore wind, paris conference, oil and gas authority, Ofgem, climate change, national grid, green agenda, Parliament, Derek Sivyer

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Food waste landfill ban: Government rejects Lords amendment

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Debates around banning sending food waste to landfill are certainly high on the agenda at the moment. Last week, an amendment to the Energy Bill was tabled in the House of Lords calling for a timetable towards banning organic waste to landfill to make it available for renewable energy generation. …

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Tags: energy bill, Jordan Marshall, landfill ban, Parliament, source segregation, Vision 2020

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2030 electricity decarbonisation target defeated in Lords

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An amendment which would have required the government to set a 2030 decarbonisation target for electricity generation in 2014 within the Energy Bill has been defeated by 14 votes in the House of Lords. The current draft of the Energy Bill is such that Government will not need to set a 2030 decarbonisation target…

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Tags: 2030 target, decarbonisation target, DECC, energy bill, House of Lords, Jordan Marshall

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News from the EBA: 2030 climate and energy report published

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The European Parliament has published its draft report on the 2030 framework for climate and energy policies. The report has been written jointly by the ENVI (Environment, Public Health and Food Safety) and ITRE (Industry, Research and Energy) committees which have traditionally had very different views on climate and energy policies. …

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Tags: 2030 target, EBA, energy bill, European Commission, Matt Hindle, Renewable Energy Targets

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Government quashes Lords' call for ban on organics to landfill

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Following our update that an amendment to the Energy Bill had been tabled in the Lords calling for government to move towards eliminating sending organic waste to landfill, we can now inform you that this amendment has disappointlingly been withdrawn although there was extensive discussion in the Lords of the…

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Tags: DECC, energy bill, food waste, Jordan Marshall, landfill ban, separate food waste collections, source segregation

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Lords propose ban on organic waste to landfill

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An amendment to the Energy Bill has been tabled in the Lords, urging government to take steps towards banning sending organic waste to landfill in order to release the resource for renewable energy generation. We strongly support this amendment, as it would mean that food waste could no longer be…

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Tags: Defra, energy bill, food waste, landfill ban, source segregation

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Labour's low-carbon agenda becomes (slightly) clearer

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One possible shape for the future of green investment became a little clearer last night, as shadow chancellor Ed Balls MP spoke at a Green Alliance event on the future of UK infrastructure. Balls reiterated Labour’s support for a 2030 power sector decarbonisation target in the Energy Bill which is…

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Tags: 2015, decarbonisation, Ed Balls, energy bill, green growth, Labour, Matt Hindle

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Renewable energy targets, bioenergy and the european debate

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As we build up to some of the debates at UK AD & Biogas – including on the future of farming, the challenge of sustainable intensification and AD’s place in the renewable energy roadmap – it is worth reflecting on some of the European debates around energy policy which will influence…

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Tags: AEBIOM, bioenergy, EBA, energy bill, Europe, Matt Hindle, Renewable Energy Targets

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The Spending Review and AD

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The Spending Round announcement (more commonly known as the Spending Review) is designed to give high-level detail on spending limits for government departments. It therefore doesn’t give masses of detail on individual policies, other than occasional headlines which the Chancellor has chosen to push. A statement in the DECC…

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Tags: Charlotte Morton, DCLG, DECC, Defra, DfT, energy bill, financial incentives, green growth, Matt Hindle, source segregation, transport, treasury

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Energy Bill passes to Lords without decarbonisation target

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The Energy Bill’s Report Stage and Third Reading took place on 3rd and 4th June. The Bill has now passed to the House of Lords, with the Second Reading (where the bill is debated in the upper house for the first time) on 18 June. During the Commons debates, the…

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Tags: DECC, Ed Davey, energy bill, FIT, House of Commons, House of Lords

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Dissecting the Energy Bill

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The publication of the Energy Bill was predictably overshadowed in the media by the Leveson Report, partly because there were few surprises left following last week’s announcement of the key agreements between the coalition parties. As ADBA said at the time, the best news for AD may well turn…

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Tags: CCC, decarbonisation, DECC, energy bill, Tim Yeo

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Energy Bill is the first step on the road to securing our energy future

ADBA PRESS RELEASE Reacting to the launch of the Energy Bill today [29 Nov] Charlotte Morton, ADBA, chief executive said: Agreement on funding for renewables in the Energy Bill could be used to provide much needed clarity to the sector, as it is only through clear long term policy that the…

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Tags: Charlotte Morton, DECC, energy bill

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AD is more than just an energy solution - Morton

ADBA PRESS RELEASE The debate on the Energy Bill, published on 29 November, risks isolating the energy debate from wider sustainability issues, according to the Chief Executive of the Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association (ADBA). Pointing to the announcement from DCLG on the Weekly Collection Support Scheme last week, Charlotte Morton…

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Tags: ADBA events, ADBA National Conference 2012, Charlotte Morton, DCLG, DECC, energy bill, National Conference, Tamar Energy, weekly collection support scheme

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DECC must use Energy Bill agreement to give certainty and prompt decarbonisation

ADBA PRESS RELEASE Reacting to Ed Davey’s announcement on energy policy this morning  [23 Nov] Charlotte Morton, ADBA, chief executive, said: The government’s decision to kick the 2030 decarbonisation target into the long grass is disappointing – as the CCC has said, Electricity Market Reform needs to…

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Tags: Charlotte Morton, DECC, EMR, energy bill

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