AD Strategy & Action Plan Services
The Government made a commitment to work towards a ‘zero waste’ economy in the Coalition Programme for Government of May 2010, and to introduce measures to increase energy from waste through anaerobic digestion ( AD). Defra published a Framework Document on 30th November 2010 which aimed to set out the necessary steps to achieve this.
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Government and industry have since worked closely together to identify barriers to development of AD and the actions needed to overcome them; resulting in theAD Strategy and Action Plan.
A significant number of actions are aimed at improving the dissemination of information and other actions related to developing best practice, providing an agreed framework for skills and training, and further work to deal with specific technical or regulatory barriers. Delivery and implementation of the Action Plan is monitored and reported by Defra.
It is not possible to give a definitive growth potential for AD. However, based on current information and assuming that real and perceived barriers are overcome through the actions undertaken, an estimated potential for AD deployment for heat and electricity could reach 3 – 5TWh by 2020.
The AD Strategy & Action Plan for England was published in conjunction with the Waste Review. Wales, Northern Ireland and Scotland, while working within the same legislative framework, are responsible for their own waste and energy from waste policies and delivery.
Delivery
An update on the progress made in the first year since the AD Strategy and Action Plan was launched can be found on the Defra website here. The second annual progress report is now also available on the Defra wedsite here.
Actions fall broadly into three categories;
- Improving our knowledge and understanding
- Smarter working models
- Regulation and finance
The actions were summarised in Table 2 of the main document and explained in more detail in Supporting Document 1. Summaries of the action updates and outputs are provided below, grouped by workstream for ease.
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