Exclusive: Increases to anaerobic digestion feed-in tariff rates delayed

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Higher feed-in tariff rates will not come into effect today as planned after delay to European Commission state aid approval

The government's plan to raise the level of financial support available to anaerobic digestion (AD) plants from today has been delayed after it failed to secure state aid approval from the European Commission...

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