Farmers say feed-in tariff will not encourage anaerobic digestion

摘要

The government has jeopardised its ambition to become a "world leader" in anaerobic digestion (AD) because the support offered for on-farm systems is too low, the National Farmers Union says.rnIn February, the government announced details of feed-in tariffs to promote renewable electricity generation.rnThese will pay owners of renewables a tariff per kilowatt hour of electricity generated. For AD systems up to 500kW peak capacity, the tariff is 11.5p/kWh.