Developing Biogas in Wales

15 Jul 2009
All Nations Centre, Cardiff

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Developing Biogas in Wales

15 July 2009

08.45
Registration
09.15
Welcome
Tom Freyberg
Editor, Recycling and Waste World Magazine
09.20
Introduction of Minister
Richard Gueterbock
Director, Clearfleau Limited, Conference Chairman
09.25
Minister for Environment, Sustainability and Housing, Welsh Assembly Government
Jane Davidson
09.45
Questions to the Minister
Policy, planning and finance
09.55
AD – Opportunities for Wales
  • Overview of the AD process
  • Potential for AD in Wales
  • Model Plant
Edmund Bailey,
Partner, Carter Jonas LLP
10.15
Shaping the future for AD in Wales
  • What does AD have to offer? Which targets will this technology help us meet and what do we need to do to overcome any remaining barriers
  • What does AD have to offer?
  • Funding for AD – in Wales and in the rest of the UK
  • Securing markets for AD – Quality standards and making them work
Nina Sweet
WRAP
10.35
Successful Delivery of Waste Procurement
  • Planning for success
  • The importance of a Business Case
  • Procurement – strategy and delivery
  • Resources and stakeholder support
  • Long term management
Hazel Nickless
Partnerships UK
10.55
Question and answer session
11.10
Refreshment Break and Exhibition Viewing
11.40
Planning
Speaker TBA
12.00
Local Authority food collection - Case Study (Rhondda Cynon Taf)
Nigel Wheeler
Service Director, Street Division, Rhondda Cynon Taf CBC
12.20
Barriers to Developing Commercial Biogas Plants
  • How securing long term volumes of waste is a key enabler to unlocking commercial AD development
  • The importance of markets for liquid and solid digestate
  • How policy makers and stakeholders could assist in overcoming this barrier
John Scott
Managing Director of InSource Energy Ltd
12.40
Question and answer session and open debate
13.00
Lunch and Exhibition Viewing
13.45
Challenging communications
  • Why effective communication is key to managing any opposition, or misconceptions about the introduction of new waste facilities
  • What elements of a communications plan should be developed and when
  • Case Study – how a communications plan was drqwn up and implemented as part of the pathfinder procurement project with Rhondda Cynon Taf and Merthyr Tydfil Councils
Brian Mayne
Hyder
14.05
Muck to Magic – achieving the best returns for AD
  • What are the options for energy sales; gas, electricity, heat?
  • ROCs or Feed in Tariff – what’s best for AD
  • Economic rules of thumb – current financial returns for AD
Tim Foster
SmartestEnergy
14.25
Engaging farmers in Anaerobic Digestion
  • The co-operative approach
  • The creation of Energy Farms
  • Economic impacts on farmers
Keith Richardson
Chair, Community Renewable Energy
14.55
Question and answer session
15.10
Refreshments and Exhibition Viewing
15.25
Bio-methane – a practical alternative to fossil fuel?
  • Biogas upgrading - basic principles
  • Biomethane - fuel tank or grid?
  • Transport opportunities, incentives and barriers
Mike Woollacott,Managing Director, Greenwatt Technology
David Martin,Greenwatt Technology
15.55
The Westwood food waste digester in Northamptonshire
  • Anaerobic digestion – the process
  • The input – food waste
  • The outputs – energy & digestate
  • Government policy
Michael Chesshire
BiogenGreenfinch
16.25
Chairman close

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