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Environment Agency enforcement position on when you can use a backup flare to burn biogas from exempt anaerobic digestion plants.
Standard rules to operate anaerobic digestion of waste and use the resultant biogas.
We want your comments on our proposed technical guidance for appropriate measures for permitted facilities that biologically treat waste.
Consultation on the generation tariffs for anaerobic digestion (AD) and micro-combined heat and power (mCHP) and sustainability criteria and feedstock restrictions for AD.
Standard rules about on-farm anaerobic digestion facilities that use farm wastes only, including use of the resultant biogas.
02 wastes are from agriculture, horticulture, aquaculture, forestry, hunting and fishing, food preparation and processing. Your permit lists the 02 waste codes you can use. You must follow the guidance given in the Before you start section.
For a facility with a treatment capacity of less than 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day accepting no more than 35,000 tonnes each year.
This project developed and tested a method to assess the leakage of methane from anaerobic digestion (biomethane) plants.
For a Part A installation with an anaerobic digestion capacity of over 100 tonnes of waste, or a combination of waste and non-waste each day and accepting no more than 100,000 tonnes per year.
Standard rules to operate an anaerobic digestion facility.
Part A installation: capacity over 100 tonnes of waste per day, including use of the resultant biogas.
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