Green Gas Support Scheme Annual Report - April 2023 to March 2024
Reports, plans and updates
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- GGSS
The Green Gas Support Scheme (GGSS) opened to applicants in England, Scotland and Wales on 30 November 2021 and provides financial support to eligible new anaerobic digestion biomethane plants for the injection of lower carbon ‘green gas’ into the gas grid. In addition to decarbonisation, the GGSS also helps promote a circular economy by making use of organic wastes, such as our domestic and industrial food waste, to heat British homes and businesses. The GGSS is funded by a levy placed on all licensed fossil fuel gas suppliers in Great Britain, known as the Green Gas Levy (GGL).
As part of our statutory responsibilities administering the GGSS and associated GGL we have produced this report to provide an update on scheme activity between 1 April 2023 and 31 March 2024 (Scheme Year 3).
Applications for registration
Since the start of the scheme to the end of March 2024, we have received 37 initial applications for registration. Of these, 16 have been issued with a tariff guarantee and one has then successfully completed the registration process.
Registered scheme participants
Since the start of the scheme support payments of £1.09 million have been made to the one registered participant, based on 18,847,157 kWhth of eligible green gas injected into the grid. This quantity of green gas is sufficient to heat approximately 1,639 typical UK homes for a year or 6.9 million hot baths.
The Green Gas Levy
A total of £21.32 million of levy payments were collected from fossil fuel gas suppliers during Scheme Year 3.
There were 19 incidents of statutory non-compliance recorded in Scheme Year 3. Seven of these were for missed levy payments, two related to a failure to put in place the appropriate credit cover provision, and one for failing to make levy interest payments. It should be noted that any missed payments were subsequently made shortly after the deadline, or in two cases there was a draw down from credit cover. This meant that there was no shortfall in collection of the levy fund during Scheme Year 3. The remaining instances of statutory non-compliance related to suppliers failing to submit meter point data confirmation by the deadline.