| Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association | |
|---|---|
| Abbreviation | ADBA |
| Formation | 2009 |
| Purpose/focus | Promotion of Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas in the United Kingdom |
| Location | The Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association, Room 318, Canterbury Court, Kennington Park, 1-3 Brixton Road, London, SW9 6DE |
| Region served | UK |
| Chairman | Rupert, Lord Redesdale |
| Website | ADBA Homepage |
The Anaerobic Digestion and Biogas Association (ADBA) is a United Kingdom based trade association for the anaerobic digestion and biogas industries.
ADBA was founded in September 2009 by its chairman Lord Redesdale and 10 founder member companies to represent businesses involved in the anaerobic digestion and biogas industries. Its objective is to help remove the barriers to anaerobic digestion that are faced and to support its members to grow their businesses. Its principal aim is to enable and facilitate the development of a mature anaerobic digestion industry in the UK within 10 years. Recognising there was no industry group that exclusively represented the emerging anaerobic digestion industry in the UK (previously the Renewable Energy Association [1] and the Association for Organics Recycling [2] had break out groups related to anaerobic digestion) ADBA was formed by a number of UK-based companies which specialise in anaerobic digestion technologies[3] including Clarke Energy, Entec,[4] Kirk Environmental[5] and Monsal.
During its relatively short time in existence ADBA has made a number of significant contributions to the development of legislation including promoting higher levels of feed in tariffs[6] for digestion plants and a biomethane carbon credit trading platform.[7]