The Weekly Digest

Your weekly intelligence across the world of Anaerobic Digestion, covering feedstock, technology, design, finance, off-take and UK government policy.

6 editions published

21 August 2026TIFT Services Ltd

The Weekly Digest: Issue #6: 10-16 August 2026

Issue #6 of The Weekly Digest covers Ireland's landmark first grid-injected biomethane plant by Bia Energy (€90m, 120 GWh/yr), the £282 million Deeside Clean Energy Plant's CO₂ capture approval by TCED, Ofgem's UIOLI flexible funding consultation, and ADBA's letter to Prime Minister Andy Burnham and Chancellor John Healey, while internationally India's GOBARdhan scheme flags a pipeline connectivity hurdle and US farm biogas pushes ahead. The wider renewables spotlight features Europe's largest operational battery storage system, Coalburn 1 (500MW/1GWh, CIP/AXA), going live in South Lanarkshire alongside Statkraft securing Section 36 consent for an additional 100MW at Coylton, as NESO sets a 30 TWh sustainable biomethane ceiling and the "waste-first" policy direction firmly establishes itself as the framework for UK sector development.

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13 August 2026TIFT Services Ltd

The Weekly Digest: Issue #5: 3 - 9 August 2026

Issue #5 (3-9 August 2026) is dominated by two seismic moves: BP's decision to sell its $4.1bn biogas subsidiary Archaea Energy, signalling a corporate portfolio correction rather than a technology retreat, and India's Cabinet approval of the $2.5bn GOBARdhan scheme, creating the world's most comprehensive single-country biogas support framework with mandatory blending targets. Closer to home, NESO's landmark report confirmed the UK can sustainably scale biomethane fivefold to 30 TWh/year, Gas Networks Ireland connected its first direct biomethane producer, and the Deeside AD plant was approved to become the UK's largest waste-to-energy facility.

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04 August 2026TIFT Services Ltd

The Weekly Digest: Issue #4: 27 July – 2 August 2026

Issue #4 (27 July – 2 August 2026) covers a week of physical infrastructure delivery, headlined by SUEZ breaking ground on its £35m food waste AD facility in Northumberland and Gasunie completing a cross-provincial biomethane pipeline in the Netherlands, alongside a flurry of policy and finance activity including Miatta Fahnbulleh's appointment as Energy Secretary, a Parliamentary POST briefing confirming the UK must grow biomethane tenfold to 64 TWh by 2050, and EnviTec's €100m strategic pivot to biomethane. The issue also features two exclusive technology spotlights: the emerging AD-pyrolysis biorefinery model and real-time metagenomic souring early-warning systems that shift site management from reactive chemistry to predictive biology.

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30 July 2026TIFT Services Ltd

The Weekly Digest: Issue #3: 18-26 July 2026

Issue #3 covers a landmark week for the sector: over €450 million in commercial capital committed across Europe, the appointment of a UK Energy Secretary with direct biomethane experience, and VIDA Wormslade going live alongside the world's first certified permanent carbon removal from a biogas plant. The message is simple; the sector has moved from subsidy-dependent to genuinely investable, and the political window in the UK is now open.

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17 July 2026TIFT Services Ltd

The Weekly Digest: Issue #2: 11–17 July 2026

Parliament told the UK must scale AD tenfold by 2050, House of Lords scrutiny of fugitive methane, the feedstock battlefield intensifies, the regulatory ratchet tightens, and post-subsidy infrastructure is being built now.

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10 July 2026TIFT Services Ltd

The Weekly Digest: Issue #1: 3–10 July 2026

Inaugural edition covering the World Biogas Expo, a €1.5B European bioenergy fund, GGSS budget tightening past 68%, negative gate fees, and the irreversible shift to multi-commodity biorefining.

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