Friends of biogas, for those interested in and promoting biogas in the UK
Anaerobic Digestion Storyline on The Archers (BBC Radio 4)
I am only a casual listener, but I have been impressed by the certainty displayed in the script that their proposed Anaerobic Digestion Plant will make a profit, over the past weekend.
All the discussion last week was how to make MORE profit by enlarging the plant to take Municipal Solid Waste.
As far as I know in the UK, Michael Cheshire of Greenfinch, Ludlow is the only person who has so far gone into print, publically saying that the economics are now right for profit from AD.
Now, I imagine that with a tightly run operation and a focussed successful business plan, profits must be being made by the present UK AD Plant operators.
It did seem to me that during the Autumn of 2006 quoted prices for revenue from power (plus CHP), based AD Plants, from a number of research sources, seemed to have positively passed the profit threshold, when compared with fossil fuel alternatives. Since then the price of oil must have risen at least 50%. So, the story should be better now, and with the ROCs rise also coming, things must be looking pretty good?
Nevertheless, uncertainties of the market for digestate remain pretty daunting...
Please, can anyone chip-in here and through relating direct or indirect experience give the group some ideas on this?
All the discussion last week was how to make MORE profit by enlarging the plant to take Municipal Solid Waste.
As far as I know in the UK, Michael Cheshire of Greenfinch, Ludlow is the only person who has so far gone into print, publically saying that the economics are now right for profit from AD.
Now, I imagine that with a tightly run operation and a focussed successful business plan, profits must be being made by the present UK AD Plant operators.
It did seem to me that during the Autumn of 2006 quoted prices for revenue from power (plus CHP), based AD Plants, from a number of research sources, seemed to have positively passed the profit threshold, when compared with fossil fuel alternatives. Since then the price of oil must have risen at least 50%. So, the story should be better now, and with the ROCs rise also coming, things must be looking pretty good?
Nevertheless, uncertainties of the market for digestate remain pretty daunting...
Please, can anyone chip-in here and through relating direct or indirect experience give the group some ideas on this?
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