Find out what is included under exemption T24 - Anaerobic digestion at premises used for agriculture and burning of resultant biogas.
Summary of exemption
This web page contains a brief summary of the exemption so you can see if it is applicable to you. There is a link to the full guidance document at the bottom of this page.
What exemption does this replace?
Paragraph 12.
What is the purpose of this exemption?
To allow farmers to anaerobically digest manures, slurries and vegetation on their farms to produce digestate that can be used as a fertiliser or soil conditioner. This reduces the need to use inorganic fertilisers.
The anaerobic digestion (AD) process also produces biogas, which can be burnt to generate energy, either for use on the farm or for export to the national grid.
What types of farming activities can I do?
You can:
- anaerobically digest manure and plant tissue waste in a dedicated AD plant to produce a digestate;
- burn the biogas produced by the AD process to produce energy to provide power on your farm or export to the national grid;
- sort, screen, cut, shred, pulverise and chip the waste to aid the AD process.
A full list of the waste types you can use under this exemption are listed in the 'What wastes can I treat under this exemption?' section in the full guidance document. There is a link to this document at the bottom of the page.
Related exemptions
If you are producing vegetation and manure and slurry in your AD plant you will need to regiser exemption U10:
You can also register exemption U11:
Registration of this exemption
Once you have read and understood the full guidance, please go to the following page to register:
Exemptions are registered for a 'place'. When you are registering exemptions for activities on your farm, 'place' is taken to include:
- the farm in question,
- outlying land, and
- discrete farmyards that are being managed as a single farm unit or form one business location.
Yards and land parcels with different addresses and correspondence addresses are considered separate units. Each should be registered as a separate 'place':
Read the full guidance for this exemption
Please read the document below for the full guidance on this exemption:
