Biomass Suppliers List - Scheme Changes

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

So it now seems we'll have to pay for registration on the BSL producer / supplier list. Received this from BSL help desk today:

 

Dear BSL supplier,

 

Following a competitive tender process by the Department for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy (BEIS; formerly DECC), the ongoing administration of the Biomass Suppliers List (BSL) will continue to be undertaken by Gemserv, in partnership with HETAS and Woodsure.

 

This new phase of the BSL will see some changes to how the scheme operates. The three main changes are:

1. System improvements – following feedback from users, changes will be made to the applications portal, the supplier area and the website to make the system more user friendly for suppliers. The first changes will be made in September. These include:

· the introduction of a “supplier master account” to allow a company with multiple BSL supplier accounts (e.g. Producer-Trader and Trader accounts) to see all their fuels in one place;

· ability to change the email address of the primary contact;

· ability for Traders to be able to select other Traders’ BSL numbers in their application, in the same way that Traders can currently select the BSL numbers of Producers and Producer-Traders;

· alignment of quarterly reporting periods across all fuels; and

· clearer guidance on how to submit an application.

 

2. Introduction of supplier fees for the BSL – since its launch in April 2014, the administration of the BSL has been fully funded by BEIS (formerly DECC), with the intention that it would eventually transition to become funded by those who register on the BSL. This transition will take effect from January 2017, meaning the cost of running the BSL will be recovered from users of the scheme (i.e. the biomass suppliers and self-suppliers). The consultation is available here to gather views from BSL users on the most appropriate charging structure for all BSL registered suppliers. Please read the BSL fee overview document and the Consultation Supporting Document before submitting your consultation response.

3. Set up of a BSL Advisory Panel – an advisory panel will be introduced, comprised of various industry and self-supplier representatives, to ensure that the users of the BSL are able to input to the running of the scheme. Suppliers are invited to nominate themselves to be part of the Panel. This Panel will be encouraged to make recommendations about improvements to the scheme to BEIS, however BEIS will still have overall responsibility for all decisions regarding the scheme. For more information, please read the BSL Advisory Panel overview document and the Panel Terms of Reference and if you wish to nominate yourself, please complete the attached BSL Advisory Panel nomination form.

 

Once the responses to the consultation have been reviewed and the nominations for the Advisory Panel have been assessed, we will provides further updates. In the meantime, if you have any questions after you have read the attached documents, please contact the BSL Helpdesk.

 

Kind regards,

Louise

 

Biomass Suppliers List (BSL)

Gemserv Limited

8 Fenchurch Place, London, EC3M 4AJ

Helpdesk: +44 (0)20 7090 7769

Email: [email protected]

Website: http://www.gov.uk/register-biomass-supplier

Guidance Documents: IIS7

 

 

 

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[youcallthatbig]

as a supplier (own use) of slabwood, of approx 20m3 pa I am kind of hoping I don't have to pay the same as the commercial pellet suppliers.........

 

but I think I could swallow the £60.00 pa mentioned.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

as a supplier (own use) of slabwood, of approx 20m3 pa I am kind of hoping I don't have to pay the same as the commercial pellet suppliers.........

 

but I think I could swallow the £60.00 pa mentioned.

 

It's a farcical administrative merry-go-round!

 

RHI payments are available to incentivise folks into alternative energy production, then charges are applied to cover the cost of administering it....

 

The only gain is a job for a shiny assed civil servant to sit in an office looking at a computer screen and adding no value.

 

Phefff!

[youcallthatbig]

nice to see they are taking the consultation/blue sky thinking meeting to the suppliers themselves by holding it in central London......hhhmmm let me see if I can be arsed to travel down to that....well that will be a no then.

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

nice to see they are taking the consultation/blue sky thinking meeting to the suppliers themselves by holding it in central London......hhhmmm let me see if I can be arsed to travel down to that....well that will be a no then.

 

:lol:

[MonsterMonster]

The Bull $h1t List is really living up to its name. I've posted here on the BSL before and I'm not a fan. I'm an end user RHI recipient that wishes to buy in raw material and use it for my own purposes and not sell to anyone. For this ball ache I have to be a Producer-Trader so whoopydoo I now get clobbered with commercial fees. Most of the BSL log traders I've met can count on one hand how many bags of fuel they've sold to RHI recipients in total since being registered from 2014. I and they see no reason to be on the BSL before any fees were mentioned.

 

Call me cynical but I feel this whole BSL is designed to put people off RHI.

Edited August 10, 2016 by MonsterMonster

[kevinjohnsonmbe]

The Bull $h1t List is really living up to its name. I've posted here on the BSL before and I'm not a fan. I'm an end user RHI recipient that wishes to buy in raw material and use it for my own purposes and not sell to anyone. For this ball ache I have to be a Producer-Trader so whoopydoo I now get clobbered with commercial fees. Most of the BSL log traders I've met can count on one hand how many bags of fuel they've sold to RHI recipients in total since being registered from 2014. I and they see no reason to be on the BSL before any fees were mentioned.

 

Call me cynical but I feel this whole BSL is designed to put people off RHI.

 

 

If not designed that way, it's certainly having that effect!

[MonsterMonster]

It would be interesting to know just how many members on here are registered as BSL for logs and what quantities they've sold to RHI recipients. I think the figures will be rather low and these fees will help them to decide to come off the BSL.