This paper was presented by NNFCC's Head of Biomass and Biogas at a Rushlight Biobriefing on the 27th September 2012.

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Understanding the AD landscape: UK and
Europe
Lucy Hopwood
Head of Biomass & Biogas
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UK Policy Context
“…to deliver a huge
increase in energy from “…3 – 5TWh by 2020”
waste through AD”
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Current Status
Non-waste:
 29 operational plants
 12MWe installed
capacity
 63 planned plants
 59MWe consented
capacity
+ 146 water treatment plants
Waste:
 48 operational plants
 67MWe installed
capacity
 84 planned plants
 149MWe consented
capacity
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Landfill gas Sewage gas Other biogas
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Biogas Use
Biogas Biomethane
Power Transport
Heat Only CHP Gas Grid
Only Fuel
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Financial Incentives - Options
OR
Combined Heat & Power (CHP) Biomethane to Grid (BtG)
Generation Tariff
Feed-In-Tariff
Export Tariff
Electricity
Market Value for Gas
or Market Value
OR
Renewables Obligation
Certificates (ROCs)
Renewables
Obligation
Market Value
Biogas Combustion tariff
(<200kWth)
Heat
Renewable Heat
Biomethane Injection
Incentive
Market Value
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Feed-In-Tariff (FIT)
0 - 250kWe @ 14.7p/kWh
250 - 500kWe @ 13.6p/kWh
500 – 5MWe @ 8.96 p/kWh
Apr 2014:
0 - 250kWe @ 14.7p/kWh Degression
250 - 500kWe @ 13.6p/kWh commences
500 – 5MWe @ 9.9 p/kWh
Dec 2012:
Feb 2012: New tariffs
Sept 2011: Comprehensive apply
0 - 500kWe @ 11.5p/kWh
Tariff increase review
500 – 5MWe @ 9 p/kWh
March 2011:
Fast-Track
Review
April 2010:
Introduced
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Impact of Feed-In-Tariff (2010 – 2012)
Source: Ofgem – Feed in Tariff Newsletter, June 2012
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Renewables Obligation (RO) AD @ 0.1
ROC per
April 2015: year
Degression
commences
Anaerobic Digestion remains
@ 2 ROCs/MWh
March 2017:
RO closes
April 2014:
Anaerobic Digestion Sept 2012: EMR opens
@ 2 ROCs/MWh Sustainability
July 2012:
Banding consultation
Review Awaiting
April 2009: response consultation on
Banding minimum scale
Introduced
April 2002:
Introduced
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Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI)
Medium and large scale biogas combustion
(proposed @ 5.9p and 2.2p/kWh)
2014 & 2017:
Scheduled tariff
reviews
Biogas combustion (<200kWth) Summer 2013:
and Biomethane Injection Sept 2012: New tariffs
@ 7.1p/kWh
July 2012: Consultation enforced
Consultation on extension
cost control & & domestic
March 2012: sustainability
Heat Strategy
Nov 2011:
Introduced for
non-domestic
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Resource Availability
“…Government policy is to deliver an increase
 Food Waste ≈ 16 Mt/y in energy from waste through AD.”
≈ 8.3 Mt/y household
“We recognise that at farm-scale, some
≈ 6.3 Mt/y commercial & industrial
energy crops may be required…and that such
≈ 1.3 Mt/y food service & retail crops can be grown as part of the normal
agricultural rotation. Furthermore, there is
land available which is not suitable for the
 Agricultural Waste ≈ 90 Mt/y production of food crops but which may,
therefore, be used to supply energy-crop only
≈ 13 million cattle AD plants.”
≈ 33 million sheep
≈ 4 million pigs “It is not our policy…to encourage energy
crops-based AD, particularly where these are
≈ 166 million chickens
grown to the exclusion of food producing
crops.”
“...NFU vision for AD…1,000 farm-based anaerobic digestion plants by
2020, alongside 100 - 200 larger waste-linked facilities…”
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Biogas Potential
“...NFU vision for AD…1,000 farm-based
anaerobic digestion plants by 2020, alongside
100 - 200 larger waste-linked facilities…”
• c. 2billion m3 of biogas per year could
be captured, equivalent to 12TWh;
• Estimated c. 1,050 plants
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AD Potential – UK to 2030
“…AD could deliver
between 3–5 TWh of
=5.6TWh
electricity by 2020”
AD Strategy & Action Plan, 2011
=3.0TWh
=1.8TWh
Source: ARUP, 2011
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AD Strategy & Action Plan
1. Feedstock & 2. Confidence and 3. Education and
technology
CREATION security awareness
DELIVERY
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Official AD Information Portal:
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