AD plants to waste a tenth of FiT capacity due to quarterly cap rules, warns industry

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AD plants to waste a tenth of FiT capacity due to quarterly cap rules, warns industry

ADBA analysis shows a failure to carry through unused capacity from one quarter to another will result in 2.4MW of the 20MW of subsidy allocated to the anaerobic digestion sector being lost

The amount of Feed-in Tariff (FiT) subsidy available for new anaerobic digestion (AD) plants could be more heavily restricted than previously thought, the Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association...

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