Biogas News

Hungarian oil and gas company MOL Group has inaugurated its first biomethane plant in Szarvas, southern Hungary, following an investment of more than 2.7 billion forints (approximately 7 million euros). The facility upgrades an existing biogas plant, which MOL acquired in 2023, with purification technology supplied by Italy's Gruppo AB. The new unit removes carbon dioxide and other compounds…
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EU Energy Commissioner Dan Jorgensen has described biomethane as a strategic European asset for energy security, telling the European Biomethane Week conference in Brussels that the continent "will still need molecules" and that biogas and biomethane are part of the solution. "There is nothing more relevant than security," Jorgensen said. "Renewables play a big part to transition away from…
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Dutch biomethanol developer Perpetual Next has signed a licence and engineering agreement with Air Liquide Engineering and Technologies for the supply of syngas-to-methanol technology, with an option to extend the arrangement across multiple future production sites. The deal covers Air Liquide's Rectisol and Lurgi Methanol technologies, which will be deployed at Perpetual Next's first…
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French investment manager Epopee Gestion and energy company Enervivo have created a financing platform dedicated to biomethane injection projects in France, with €10 million in initial funding primarily provided by Epopee Gestion. The platform, developed alongside project developer Urbeez, aims to finance approximately ten biomethane projects over the next three to four years. It will focus…
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Lincolnshire County Council has granted planning permission for a £115 million anaerobic digestion facility in the village of Anwick, near Sleaford, that will process up to 120,000 tonnes of chicken waste and other material each year to produce biogas. The developer, Stream BioEnergy UK, received approval in principle from the council's planning committee last month, with final planning…
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Swedish green hydrogen technology company Metacon has secured EU funding to participate in a project that aims to produce high-purity hydrogen from biogas at existing anaerobic digestion facilities in Greece. The PUREHY2+ project will develop an add-on system for biogas plants that refines biogas into hydrogen with a purity exceeding 99.97% while capturing the resulting CO2. The approach is…
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When AD Fuels completed the UK's first virtual pipeline operation in 2014, the concept of trucking compressed or liquefied biomethane from anaerobic digestion plants to gas grid injection points was largely untested. More than a decade on, the West Sussex-based haulier has watched the sector grow — but not, its managing director concedes, as fast as he had hoped. "The industry has grown, but…
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Nopetro Energy has broken ground on a $50 million renewable natural gas production facility at the Lena Road Landfill in Manatee County, Florida, the first project of its kind on the state's west coast. The facility will capture methane generated by decomposing waste at the landfill, purify it into pipeline-quality RNG and inject it into existing gas infrastructure. The fuel will be used…
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Swedish clean energy technology company Metacon has secured EU project funding for a pilot plant that will produce hydrogen from biomethane at an existing industrial biogas facility on the Greek island of Crete. The project, known as BIOH2VAP, will see Metacon's fully owned Greek subsidiary Metacon SA construct a pilot plant at a biogas site in Ierapetra covering biogas upgrading, biomethane…
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Lundsby Renewable Solutions, a Danish biogas plant developer and constructor, has been declared bankrupt after a project in Finland left the company facing losses running into millions of kroner. The bankruptcy was filed at Viborg District Court on 8 October and recorded in Statstidende, the official Danish government gazette. Attorney Henrik Steen Jensen has been appointed as…
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A former waste pre-treatment site in Northwich, Cheshire, is to be converted into a dedicated biomethane production facility after planners voted unanimously to approve the scheme. Cheshire West and Chester Council's planning committee gave its backing to the project on 6 October. The application was submitted by Northwich Biogas, a subsidiary of Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners, which…
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The European Biogas Association (EBA) has published a new policy leaflet setting out what it describes as the key regulatory and administrative bottlenecks preventing the biogas and biomethane sector from scaling across Europe, alongside targeted recommendations for policymakers. The document organises the barriers into five dimensions: permitting and planning, investment and market certainty,…
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The Anaerobic Digestion & Bioresources Association (ADBA) has criticised the UK government's newly announced Great British Grid, arguing that its sole focus on electricity infrastructure leaves out green gas as a way of cutting the cost of the energy transition. The plan, announced by the Prime Minister on 29 September, centres on building and connecting new electricity infrastructure,…
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Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners (CIP) has made a final investment decision on Via Verde, an Italian biomethane platform, marking its first move into the country's biomethane sector. The investment is made through CIP's Advanced Bioenergy Fund II (ABF II), which focuses on developing, building and operating biogas plants across Europe that convert agricultural waste and other sustainable…
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