AD to benefit from “world first” heat incentive

LetsRecycle.com (UK)
Monday 01 February 2010 Legislation News

Anaerobic digestion looks set to benefit from two financial incentive schemes outlined today (February 1) by the Department of Energy and Climate Change (DECC) to increase the production of renewable energy.

The department today revealed exactly how much anaerobic digestion (AD) plant operators will receive under the Feed-in Tariffs (FiTs) system, which aims to encourage small-scale renewable electricity generation from April 2010.

And, AD was identified alongside energy-from-waste plants producing combined heat and power and those using technologies such as gasification in proposals for a Renewable Heat Incentive (RHI), which DECC hopes will increase the proportion of heat produced from renewable sources from just 1% to 12% by 2020.

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