ADBA News
AD MARKET REPORT SHOWS GREEN GAS DOUBLED IN 2016
ADBA’s December 2016 Market Report, published at our annual National Conference, revealed that the UK now has almost 90 plants injecting biomethane into the gas grid, double the number in December 2015. The report investigates and explores the growth, developments and market changes in the AD industry to date and shows that the total number of AD plants in operation has risen from 424 in late 2015 to 540 at the end of 2016. This gives the UK more capacity to recycle food waste, more sustainable farming and wastewater treatment options, more low carbon baseload electricity generation, and more green gas in our grid. AD has also already reduced UK greenhouse gas emissions by nearly one per cent annually.
This growth has come despite policy uncertainty around the future of low carbon energy support, which is stifling future growth. With the right support, the biogas industry could deliver 250 MW of new generation capacity over the next two years – enough to add 10 per cent to our tight winter 2018 capacity margin and bring benefits to farming, recycling and the economy.
Members can download a copy of the report from the members’ area at
adbioresources.org. Non-members can purchase the report by contacting
alex.monks@
adbioresources.org
ADBA RESPONDS TO RTFO CONSULTATION
In January, we submitted written evidence to the Department for Transport’s (DfT’s) consultation on changes to the Renewable Transport Fuels Obligation (RTFO), a key policy for the decarbonisation of transport and for the development of waste-based and advanced fuels. Transport accounts for around a quarter of domestic greenhouse gas emissions, so there are huge carbon savings to be made in this sector and great contributions to come from AD if DfT takes our policy recommendations on board in its reforms.
Our response centred around three key recommendations: • Increasing the overall obligation and the 2030 trajectory. Our response supports an increase in the obligation of renewable volume of fuels to 9.75 per cent by 2020, and beyond this we call for even greater ambition, increasing the obligation incrementally to 2030.
• Creating a development fuel sub-target. We support this proposal and call for biomethane to be one of the specified fuels in this category. However, we believe there is a strong case to support all varieties of well managed feedstocks sent to AD, where the sustainability and low carbon credentials can be established – not just wastes and residues.
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• Introducing a cap on crops used for biofuels. Our response encourages DfT to set a crop cap of seven per cent (as opposed to other suggestions of two or zero per cent) to ensure that the UK biofuel industry can continue to grow. We argue that the UK level of crops used in transport is only around 1.5 per cent on an energy basis, but that maintaining a higher ceiling of seven per cent (though not necessarily reaching that) provides flexibility and ensures the UK can meet its Carbon Budgets, whilst adhering to sustainability priorities and indirect land use change obligations.
Thank you to everyone who got in touch to share suggestions and views, and special thanks to those who took part in the RTFO consultation workshop. To discuss the RTFO or our response, contact
thom.koller@adbioresources.org
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