bioresources market development - ofwat
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Bioresources market development
Review of progress and findings to date
15th January 2021
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Joining time
Setting the scene (Ofwat)
Environmental update (EA)
Constraints and stakeholder responses (Jacobs)
Break
Breakout session (all)
Next steps (Ofwat)
End of update
(Stay on the call for Q&A on the bioresources data request)
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Setting the scene
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Background to our review
• Bioresources is important in terms of: • affordability;• resilience and the environment; • innovation and customers.
• We will continue to face challenges on all these fronts in the years ahead.
• Markets could help address these issues, along with other measures.
• Ofwat introduced a number of measures to facilitate the bioresources markets in recent years.
• Our market monitoring report highlighted potential concerns.
Environment Agency strategy for safe and sustainable sludge use
Mat Davis, Clive Humphreys,
Environment Agency
Ofwat Bioresources market review meeting:
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Regulation of Sludge Digestion
The reason sewage sludge digesters also require permits
Closing the codigestion gap?
In England
130 sludge digestion facilities require installation permits
Only 20 of these currently have the correct permits
First tranche of applications due by April
Permit for codigestion costs the same as other AD permits
Similar regulatory standards
Water companies can already apply for codigestion permits if they choose to use their sludge treatment assets in this way
Waste water treatment plant
Waste management facility
Sludge (Use in
Agriculture)
Regulations
Environmental
Permitting
Regulations
Recovery to agricultural land
Recovery to land
Waste water.
Other waste water.
Waste in a liquid form.
Sludge (various).
Solid waste.
INPUT TREATMENT USE
The Environment Agency Sludge Strategy
Modernise, clarify and address regulatory inconsistency:
Sludge from septic tank
Waste from producer
Stakeholder responses and market constraints
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Types of market activity in scope
Jacobs’ taskIdentifying the constraints
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Constraining factors
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Regulatory and knowledge
Environmental factors
Industrial Emissions Directive
Biosolids to land
Scientific uncertainty
Farming Rules for Water
Sludge strategy Permitting
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Regulatory and knowledge
Economic factors
Bioresources price control
Type of control
Overheads and shared assets
Long-term contracts/ protection of revenue
Boundary
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Technical and physical
Transportability of sludge
Measurement and control of sludge quality
Transfer of duty of care
Technological uncertainty
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Cultural and organisational
Public perceptionof sludge trades
Synchronisation of investment cycles
Break
Breakout sessions
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Next steps
• We will consider your views
• Water companies to complete their data request by 21 January 2021
• We will publish our report in the spring, consulting on our proposals
• We may organise future stakeholder events
Thanks for joining us
Please contact the project team this month with further comments:
[email protected] / 07716 651836
Stay on the call if you would like to discuss the data request.
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