DRAFT IrBEA Submission To CER On Future Of Grid Connection Policy

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CER Review of Connection and Grid Access Policy. As per the Weekly Noticeboard 16th January, the CER has published a Consultation Paper on theReview of Connection and Grid Access Policy. It initiates a review of existing connection policy and requests views on the CER’s proposals for the enduring connection policy regime which will be developed over the course of 2016 and on proposals for transitional arrangements to be decided upon in early 2016. IrBEA has asked Tom Bruton/BioXL to lead and coordinate the work on the written consultation process.
* Draft document prepared for member circulation by 20th January – here.

IrBEA is agreeing that the system is no longer fit for purpose and is making a number of significant recommendations, the most substantial being to recommend a threshold for processing small-scale bioenergy projects of 1 MW or less outside of the GPA. It includes an executive summary which should make it easier to respond. Please provide any feedback from IrBEA members directly to Tom at tom.bruton@bioxl.ie strictly on or before 26th January.

Biogas Equipment Handbook available online

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Under the Biogas3 project (www.biogas3.eu) a Biogas Equipment Handbook was designed specifically for smaller scale anaerobic digestion plants (circa under 100KWe or equivalent). The handbook is distributed across the 7 partner countries in the project and beyond. IrBEA and its project partners in Spain, France, Germany, Italy, Poland and Sweden will be promoting smaller scale Biogas concepts to the agri-food industry right across these countries, and the handbook that will contain data on equipment collected from this email shot will be central to this promotion. View the handbook here

 

Funding opportunities for researchers 

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Two separate funding opportunities have been announced for Irish researchers to participate in European Research Area Network (ERA-NET) Cofund Calls (Closing date is 29 March 2016):

1.       Sustainable Animal Production Systems – SusAn

2.       Monitoring & Mitigation of Greenhouse gases from Agri- and Silvi-culture – ERA-GAS