We Are Biogas

Alexandra Arndt

Weekly breakdowns of biogas headlines with additional commentary. Also, get the inside scoops from exclusive interviews we conduct with professionals from around the world making an impact in biogas.

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Thursday · 27 min
A World First in Carbon Removal, Germany Opens a 300 MW Biomethane Auction, and Lagos Turns a Public Toilet Into a Power Plant #14
This week on We Are Biogas, Norway just issued the world's first verified carbon removal credits from a biogas-based BECCS project. Waga Energy signed a €128 million green loan to accelerate across Europe. Germany opened a 300 MW biomethane auction. A public toilet in Lagos is now powering food stalls. And Brazil turned 40,000 tonnes of supermarket-rejected sweet potatoes into biogas, protein, and alcohol. Thirteen headlines, five continents, and one exclusive article that every market trying to scale biomethane needs to read. In this episode, we cover: Germany launches a 300 MW biomethane auction alongside a 475 MW innovation tender, as the country's bioenergy sector simultaneously criticises the draft EEG 2027 for falling short on the capacity commitments needed to protect existing operators France proposes extending its renewable gas support mechanism to pyrolysis for the first time, widening the definition of supported production pathways in one of Europe's largest gas markets Waga Energy signs a €128 million, 10-year structured Green Loan arranged with Crédit Agricole CIB, Société Générale, BNP Paribas, and ING Bank to refinance its European WAGABOX portfolio and finance projects under construction in France, Spain, and Italy Springfield, Missouri becomes the latest US city to seek a private sector partner for a wastewater-to-RNG project, using an asset-light public-private model that keeps municipal capital off the table Puro.earth certifies the world's first verified CO2 Removal Certificates from a biogas-based BECCS project at Norway's VEAS wastewater treatment plant, developed by Inherit Carbon Solutions with HoopCO2 and Northern Lights JV providing capture, transport, and permanent geological storage beneath the North Sea Flogas and College Group sign a 26 GWh annual biomethane offtake agreement from an AD facility in Nobber, Co. Meath, delivering an estimated 6,637 tonnes of CO2 savings per year and decarbonising Irish transport SUEZ confirms a contractor for its £35 million, 50,000-tonne-per-year AD facility at Ellington in Northumberland, a direct downstream consequence of England's mandatory food waste collection mandate, with operations expected by end of 2027 Lagos's "Pee-Po-to-Power" pilot opens a 30-cubic-metre anaerobic biodigester at a Ojota Bus Stop public toilet, converting human waste from 350 daily users into biogas supplied free to nearby women food vendors as a clean cooking alternative to charcoal Gasunie completes a new network connection between Zeeland and Noord-Brabant by repurposing a redundant fossil gas pipeline, expanding Dutch biomethane transport capacity as domestic production grows 14% year-on-year toward a 2 billion cubic metre national target Kyoto Network deploys the first tranche of its COP30-launched KTAF Fund in Kenya's Kaptagat region, launching the KyoGreen 10,000 Schools Biogas Initiative to replace firewood and charcoal in boarding school kitchens and create livelihoods for 10,000 young social entrepreneurs Northern Gas Networks and Northumbrian Water publish a clear public account of how biomethane from sewage sludge at Howdon, Wallsend is heating 59,000 homes across Tyneside, with plans to double output over the next five years Brazil's Better Beef converts 40,000 tonnes per year of retail-rejected sweet potatoes into cattle protein, industrial alcohol, and biogas through a closed-loop processing model, creating three revenue streams from a supply chain inefficiency France's exclusive: why 2.2 BCM of biomethane injected, a farmer-led market built over a decade, and a support scheme now shifting to competitive tendering makes France both the blueprint and the cautionary tale for every market trying to scale If you work in renewable gas, waste management, infrastructure investment, agricultural energy, circular economy, climate policy, carbon markets, or you just want to understand where the energy transition is actually happening right now, this one is for you. 🌍 Explore more stories, insights, and media from across the global biogas industry: https://wearebiogas.com 📩 Want your story told, or have a topic you want us to cover next? Reach out directly: alexandra@wearebiogas.com 🔗 Let’s connect and keep the conversation going: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrarng/
July 15 · 27 min
US Landfill Gas Hits $14.9B in Investment, Ukraine Plans $51M in New Biomethane Plants, and Pig Slurry Is Powering AI Servers #13
This week on We Are Biogas, we're back after another week away — this time at the World Biogas Expo in Birmingham. Alexandra gives you the full run down of those two days at the end of the episode, including the IEA's launch of BioGRAM, a live visit to a CNG Fuels refueling station, the AD & Biogas Industry Awards Gala, and the one line from Simona Amerio's session that hasn't left her head since. But first, fourteen headlines from across the global biogas, biomethane, and RNG sector. In this episode, we cover: One year after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 45Z Clean Fuel Production Tax Credit remains largely out of reach for manure-derived RNG producers — the DOE's June GREET update moved things forward on several fronts, but the manure emissions calculations that are make-or-break for dairy and swine projects are still unresolved, and the American Biogas Council is calling for the remaining updates to land Ukraine announces plans for four new biomethane plants worth over $51 million, as two agribusinesses move to capitalize on parliamentary legislation enabling biomethane exports to Europe and the first commercial gas flows to Germany The US Department of Energy awards $6.9 million to nine waste-to-energy projects across six states, supporting communities at different stages of planning to develop local waste-to-transportation-fuel solutions from food waste, wastewater sludge, solid waste, and manure Nordion Energi breaks ground on a liquefied biogas facility at the Port of Gothenburg — Scandinavia's largest port — targeting the maritime sector as a new demand channel for Swedish biogas, with completion expected in early 2027 Elevion Group agrees to acquire Italian biogas specialist BTS Biogas, including 51% stakes in nine biomethane plants in northern Italy, adding approximately 30 million standard cubic metres of annual biomethane capacity to its portfolio once fully operational Brazil signs its first commercial biomethane injection contract in Santa Catarina, as H2A Bioenergia's ANP-certified swine waste facility enters the regulated market — the reference project for a sector backed by a mandatory blending framework rising from 1% in 2026 to 10% by 2034 The Linden Renewable Energy facility in New Jersey, a $440 million food waste-to-RNG project set to process 1,475 tonnes of organic waste per day and deliver pipeline-quality RNG into Elizabethtown Gas's distribution system, hits a significant safety milestone on its path to full commercial operations A pig farm in north-west England is running high-performance AI servers on electricity generated from slurry-fed anaerobic digestion, under Easy Compute's Green Compute model — with claims of up to ten times the revenue of grid export and a payback period reduction from 12 to 15 years down to around four Anaergia signs a contract to deliver proprietary AD technology and equipment for the Goodness Grown facility in Tongala, Victoria, marking the company's first major reference project in the Australian market A CABEI and EU-backed study identifies Costa Rica's heavy transport sector, responsible for 37.6% of national emissions, as a primary target for biomethane adoption, outlining a Technological Roadmap running from 2025 to 2040 to validate the fuel across the country's logistics corridors New American Biogas Council data confirms landfill gas now drives 64% of all US RNG production, with 598 capture systems, nearly $14.9 billion in total investment, and approximately 705 additional landfills still suitable for development representing up to 455 billion cubic feet of untapped annual biogas capacity North American RNG passes 600 operational facilities as the RNG Coalition marks 15 years — a continent-wide infrastructure network built from a standing start, still compounding World Biogas Expo 2026 field report: Alexandra breaks down two days in Birmingham, from the IEA's BioGRAM launch and Charlotte Morton OBE's macro frame on global biogas potential, to Cécile Frédéricq's instructive look at France's shift from feed-in tariffs to competitive tendering, a live visit to a CNG Fuels refueling station serving some of the UK's largest logistics fleets, and the AD & Biogas Industry Awards Gala recognizing work from Zambia, Kenya, India, and beyond. Plus the one line from Simona Amerio that captures exactly what We Are Biogas is here to do. If you work in renewable gas, waste management, infrastructure investment, agricultural energy, circular economy, climate policy, or you just want to understand where the energy transition is actually happening right now, this one is for you. 🌍 Explore more stories, insights, and media from across the global biogas industry: https://wearebiogas.com 📩 Want your story told, or have a topic you want us to cover next? Reach out directly: alexandra@wearebiogas.com 🔗 Let’s connect and keep the conversation going: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrarng/
July 1 · 21 min
The Time for Delivery Is Now: Ireland, Denmark, India, and a Week That Delivered. #12
This week on We Are Biogas, we're back after a week away — and it was worth every minute of the silence. Alexandra spent last week at Biomethane Day Ireland, hosted by Gruppo AB and Nephin Energy in Dublin, and the experience of being in that room among the people physically building Ireland's biomethane sector is what this episode is built around. The field report is live on the platform. The details are in the episode. Stick around for it. But first — fourteen headlines. Five continents. A head-of-government MOU between Japan and India that puts biogas into the formal architecture of bilateral geopolitical cooperation. Biogenic CO₂ leaving a Danish farm on a truck bound for the bottom of the North Sea. Mumbai planning to turn 350 tonnes of restaurant and market waste into compressed fuel every single day. And Scotland with a documented £10 billion opportunity sitting at 2.5% utilisation, waiting for a national target to unlock it. This is one of the strongest editions we've published. Here's everything in it. In this episode, we cover: Japan and India sign a bilateral MOU to establish a framework for biogas-powered vehicles, targeting 1,000 methane production plants across India — with Suzuki Motor cooperating on implementation in a market where CNG already accounts for over 20% of new vehicle sales Poland's state development bank BGK commits €25 million to SWEN Capital Partners' pan-European SWIFT 3 biomethane infrastructure fund — Central and Eastern European institutional capital entering the European biomethane buildout Mumbai signs a concession agreement with Mahanagar Gas Limited to develop a 350-tonne-per-day compressed biogas facility at Mankhurd, drawing on food waste from hotels, vegetable markets, and commercial kitchens across India's largest city A 75,000-tonne-per-year AD project in Wiltshire receives planning consent, adding to England's growing pipeline of permitted infrastructure as mandatory food waste collection creates feedstock streams that didn't exist before April 2026 BioCirc's Vesthimmerland BECCS facility — the world's largest biogas-integrated carbon capture and storage plant — ships its first truck of captured biogenic CO₂ to the port of Esbjerg for permanent injection beneath the North Sea under Project Greensand, backed by a 650,000-tonne carbon removal agreement with Microsoft Estonia officially opens the Halinga biomethane plant in Pärnu County — one of the country's largest biomethane facilities — with Infortar's chairman noting that restoring Estonia's dairy herd to 1990s levels could theoretically meet the country's entire gas demand from biogas alone Archaea Energy and Republic Services celebrate the first RNG plant in their Lightning Renewables joint venture in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with commercial production expected this summer — the opening facility in a partnership that has no intention of stopping at one Canada's Blenheim, Ontario RNG plant is now fully operational — one of the country's first renewable natural gas facilities, adding to a market building its reference infrastructure plant by plant The EU's Horizon Europe TITAN project validates a microwave-based process that converts raw biogas directly into hydrogen and solid carbon in a single system — fewer steps, dual output, and a potential negative emissions pathway for small and remote biogas plants Researchers at Brazil's Federal University of Paraíba release an open-source software tool for calculating the thermophysical and energetic properties of biogas across variable compositions — lowering the barrier to precise project modeling for operators without access to expensive proprietary software A Chinese Academy of Sciences research team identifies how melanoidins — compounds formed during hydrothermal food waste treatment — accumulate in AD systems and inhibit methane production, opening a pathway to process design changes that recover biogas currently being lost without operators knowing why Polytechnic University of Madrid researchers propose a decentralised biomethane model that pools biogas production across multiple small livestock farms with shared centralised upgrading infrastructure — making grid injection commercially viable for farm sizes that couldn't justify it individually Scotland's Green Gas Taskforce publishes a report estimating £10 billion in economic value and 8,000 jobs from scaling biomethane to 19 TWh by 2050 — with the sector currently utilising just 2.5% of available organic farm waste and calling directly on government for a national target Alexandra's field report from Biomethane Day Ireland — what the room felt like, what Richard Kennedy said that stopped the conversation, what Ireland's biomethane sector looks like from the inside, and why she's already planning to be back next year to measure how far the momentum traveled Alexandra will also be at the World Biogas Expo in Birmingham on July 8th and 9th. If you're going to be there, reach out — she would love to grab a coffee and talk all things biogas in person. If you work in renewable gas, waste management, infrastructure investment, agricultural energy, circular economy, climate policy, or you're just someone who wants to understand where the energy transition is actually happening right now — this one is for you. 🌍 Explore more stories, insights, and media from across the global biogas industry: https://wearebiogas.com 📩 Want your story told, or have a topic you want us to cover next? Reach out directly: alexandra@wearebiogas.com 🔗 Let’s connect and keep the conversation going: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrarng/
June 16 · 24 min
Cow Manure to Jet Fuel, AI Wins a National Prize, and the Week US Dairy Biogas Went Mainstream
This week on We Are Biogas, we're doing something a little different. Before the headlines, Alexandra takes you inside Willen Biogas in Enfield, London — her first-ever visit to a full-scale anaerobic digestion facility — alongside Flávio Ascenco of ABEC, who walks her through every stage of the process from intake bay to digestate output. It's the conversation and the site visit that changed the way she sees everything we cover on this show every week. The full video is below. 🎥 https://youtu.be/f_g0lpFTE7A?is=U_5EV4ABdAvHWyyW Willen Biogas processes close to 30,000 tonnes of London's food waste every year — from restaurants, canteens, and local authority collections — converting it into renewable electricity for approximately 4,000 homes, recovered heat used on site, and PAS 110-certified digestate that leaves the facility as a spreading-ready organic fertiliser for farmland. Three outputs. One input. And the input is something every city on earth is producing more of every single year. Then we get into the headlines — thirteen stories this week spanning five continents, two world firsts, a national AI prize, and data that confirms what the US dairy sector has quietly been building toward for the last five years. In this episode, we cover: Mexico's SENER develops a binding Official Mexican Standard to operationalize the country's biomethane market and enable gas grid injection — moving from roadmap to regulatory infrastructure South Korea invests $27.5 million to localise biogas power generation technology, reducing dependence on imported generators and components as the domestic market expands Malaysia and South Korea formalize bilateral cooperation on biogas development and carbon neutrality through Korea Environment Corporation and the South Korean Embassy in Kuala Lumpur The US Department of Energy releases an updated 45ZCF-GREET model, delivering long-awaited regulatory certainty on emissions scoring for the 45Z clean fuel production credit — including RNG producers Anaergia's SoCal Biomethane facility in Victorville, California becomes the first project to deliver RNG under California's SB 1440 Biomethane Procurement Program, co-digesting up to 104,000 tonnes of organic waste annually and delivering gas directly into Southwest Gas Corporation's distribution system Polska Grupa Biogazowa completes a significant expansion of its Dzierżki biogas facility in Poland — quiet, incremental capacity growth that reflects how Central and Eastern European biogas actually scales Bahiagás signs a biomethane protocol with CIBiogás and Captar to produce biomethane from agroindustrial residues in the Oeste Baiano region, as Brazil's domestic gas utilities begin treating biomethane as a genuine supply source Circularity Fuels completes the world's first end-to-end pilot converting raw dairy biogas directly into sustainable aviation fuel — 65% methane, 35% CO₂, no intermediate upgrading step, ASTM D7566 certified jet fuel at the end of it BiofuelAi, a University of Surrey spinout, wins the UK government's £1 million Manchester Prize for its AI-powered decision support platform that builds digital twins of AD plants — early pilots showed 6–10% revenue improvements and 28% carbon emissions reductions Generate Upcycle strengthens its engineering and compliance infrastructure ahead of tightening US organics recycling mandates — building the position before the policy bites, not after New data from the American Biogas Council confirms US dairy biogas capacity has nearly tripled since 2020 — 496 farms now operational, processing manure from approximately 2.5 million cows A first-of-its-kind RNG facility breaks ground in central Nebraska to convert cattle manure into pipeline-quality natural gas, continuing the story of the US Great Plains as an emerging agricultural RNG geography If you work in renewable gas, waste management, infrastructure investment, agricultural energy, circular economy, food and beverage, aviation, or climate policy — this one is for you. 🌍 Explore more stories, insights, and media from across the global biogas industry: https://wearebiogas.com 📩 Want your story told, or have a topic you want us to cover next? Reach out directly: alexandra@wearebiogas.com 🔗 Let’s connect and keep the conversation going: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrarng/
June 9 · 29 min
Cross-Border Deals, A 40% Production Breakthrough, and the Week Biogas Made History Three Times
This week on We Are Biogas, the headlines span five continents, three industry firsts, and every scale of the sector — from a €26 million EBRD-backed biomethane conversion in Latvia to a sewage treatment plant in Seoul that is now producing hydrogen for city buses, to a dairy farm in Jerome, Idaho processing more than 5 million gallons of manure a day into one of North America's largest single-site RNG facilities. We're also watching Mexico write the regulatory foundations that will finally allow biomethane into its gas grid, industrial manufacturing in Italy sign one of the country's first long-term biomethane supply agreements, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries verify a technology that could boost biogas output by 40% on existing infrastructure — without any additional feedstock. In this episode, we cover: India and Japan open high-level talks on cooperative-led compressed biogas development through dairy cooperatives — routing international expertise through rural agricultural institutions rather than industrial players Mexico develops a roadmap for biomethane grid injection, building the regulatory foundation that transforms domestic organic waste into a networked energy commodity The EBRD approves a €26 million InvestEU-backed loan to HoSt Group's Next Biogas to convert Latvia's Lēdurga plant into one of the Baltic's largest biomethane facilities — 80,070 MWh annually, with biogenic CO₂ capture as a co-product Pure Data Centres Group completes Europe's first large-scale cross-border biomethane deal for a data centre — 9GWh of certified German biomethane transferred to the Irish gas network in a single transaction Fedrigoni Group signs one of Italy's first long-term biomethane supply agreements in manufacturing — covering 40% of its Italian plants' gas requirements and cutting cradle-to-gate emissions by up to 50% Vanguard Renewables breaks ground on a 300-tonne-per-day anaerobic digestion facility in Minnesota, producing 270,000 MMBtu of RNG annually and creating 100 jobs for the region Royal HaskoningDHV deploys Anglian Water's Helea® technology at one of the world's largest wastewater treatment plant upgrades in Brazil — a retrofit model with implications for underutilized digestion infrastructure globally Mitsubishi Heavy Industries achieves verification of a zeolite-based purification system capable of boosting biogas production by up to 40% on existing infrastructure — no additional feedstock required EcoSimplex begins commercial operation of Seoul's first biogas-to-hydrogen station in Magok — processing 4,000 Nm³ of sewage biogas daily into 500kg of hydrogen for buses, police vehicles and fuel-cell cars, with an 85% emissions reduction versus grey hydrogen AURI and Swedish firm BPC Instruments partner to develop biogas market opportunities from agricultural residues at Minnesota's Bio-industrial Innovation Center Clean Energy Fuels starts up the East Valley Cattle RNG plant in Jerome, Idaho — its eighth dairy facility and one of the largest single-site dairies and RNG operations in North America Exclusive: We Are Biogas sits down with Lidija Zelić, head of the Serbian Biogas Association, for a conversation that goes well beyond sector development and regulatory progress. This is a story about villages trying to survive, farmers building new futures from their land, women holding rural communities together, and young people being given a reason to stay. Sixteen years of trust built one farm visit, one difficult conversation, and one community at a time. Full article read-through included. If you work in renewable gas, waste management, infrastructure investment, agricultural energy, circular economy, or climate policy — this one is for you. 📩 We Are Biogas subscribers have exclusive access to a 5% discount on the Global NRG Advisory Project Finance Masterclass. Six live modules on how you actually fund a biogas project, led by Chris Negus and Andrew Rice. Cohorts are capped at 15 seats and they are going fast. Use code WEAREBIO at checkout, or DM Chris Negus directly and tell him We Are Biogas sent you. 🌍 Explore more stories, insights, and media from across the global biogas industry: https://wearebiogas.com 📩 Want your story told, or have a topic you want us to cover next? Reach out directly: alexandra@wearebiogas.com 🔗 Let’s connect and keep the conversation going: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrarng/
June 3 · 30 min
€1.7 Billion In. A Nature Study Drops a Bombshell. And Cork Just Got Ireland's Biggest Food Waste Plant. # 9
I was supposed to be on a two-week break. Then this week's headlines landed. Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners drops a €1.7 billion bioenergy fund with a €200 million European Investment Fund anchor. Nature Sustainability publishes a methane leakage study with findings that every wastewater biogas operator needs to read — and not all of them are going to like it. Ireland signs its seventh biomethane grid connection in three years. The Netherlands stacks €150 million in long-term operating subsidies behind a single waste-wood-to-biomethane project. And Budweiser installs a biogas recovery system at its Lancashire brewery and cuts gas consumption by up to 8%. The break is cancelled. Let's go. In this episode, we cover: Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners launches Advanced Bioenergy Fund II targeting €1.5 billion — anchored by a €200 million European Investment Fund commitment backed by InvestEU and REPowerEU South Carolina signs a landfill gas-to-RNG tax credit into law as US federal policy uncertainty pushes biogas support further toward state-level architecture Stream BioEnergy signs its seventh biomethane grid connection in three years — this time an €80 million food and garden waste plant in Little Island, Co. Cork The Netherlands' EemsGas project secures €149.8 million in SDE++ operating subsidies covering 15 years of production — the kind of long-term revenue certainty most markets still can't offer ReFuels breaks ground on a new UK biomethane refuelling station on the M4 corridor, targeting 800 trucks a day and forming a dedicated low-carbon freight corridor with its Magor site in South Wales Oklahoma State University signs a 10-year RNG partnership with Love's Alternative Energy to power its 27-bus campus transit fleet — a demand-side story the sector doesn't tell often enough SUEZ breaks ground on a new 50,000 tpa anaerobic digestion plant in Northumberland, explicitly connected to England's mandatory food waste collection mandate that came into force in April 2026 Nature Sustainability publishes a US national-scale assessment finding methane leakage rates ranging from 0.4% to 65% at wastewater biogas facilities — with a large fraction of current systems potentially exceeding the net-zero emission threshold Budweiser's Samlesbury brewery cuts gas consumption by up to 8% after installing a biogas recovery system that captures energy from its own wastewater treatment process Italy's Malya concept vehicle integrates a biomethane range extender into a compact urban EV — positioning biomethane as a solution for range anxiety, not just heavy transport Ukraine's Poroshenko-linked agricultural group files plans for a 200,000 tpa biomethane complex in Vinnytsia Oblast, as Ukrainian producers begin shipping gas to Germany McDonald's confirms anaerobic digestion is part of how it keeps edible food waste below 1% — and what that gap between US and UK operations tells us about policy-driven feedstock behaviour India's REnergy Dynamics wins two compressed biogas contracts from Refex Renewables as India's CBG value chain begins to specialise into distinct roles Exclusive: Alexandra reads through this month's We Are Biogas essay — The Gap Is the Story: What May 2026 Told Us About Where Biogas Is Today. Four gaps. Four places where the distance between what biogas can do and what the conditions currently allow is most visible. And in each case, someone is closing one. The floor-building phase isn't over. It's just become more precise about which section needs laying next. "The sector is waiting for itself to close the implementation distance." If you work in renewable gas, waste management, project finance, infrastructure investment, circular economy, agricultural energy, or climate policy — this episode covers a lot of ground and doesn't let you look away. 📩 We Are Biogas subscribers get an exclusive 5% discount on the NRG Global Advisory Project Finance Masterclass — six live modules on how you actually fund a biogas project. September cohort, 15 seats, and they are going fast. Use code WEAREBIO at checkout or DM Chris Negus directly and tell him We Are Biogas sent you. We Are Biogas is your weekly breakdown of biogas, biomethane, RNG & anaerobic digestion — from farms and wastewater plants to the policy rooms and capital markets where this industry is being built. New episodes every week. Subscribe to the newsletter at wearebiogas.substack.com 🌍 Explore more stories, insights, and media from across the global biogas industry: https://wearebiogas.com 📩 Want your story told, or have a topic you want us to cover next? Reach out directly: alexandra@wearebiogas.com 🔗 Let’s connect and keep the conversation going: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrarng/
May 19 · 33 min
Biogas From Bento Boxes, Sugarcane Trucks & The Methane Nobody's Counting #8
This week on We Are Biogas, the headlines span four continents and every scale of the industry. From a 74-tonne biomethane truck hauling sugar to the Port of Santos on fuel made from the same cane it's carrying, to homes across Wrexham being heated by sewage collected from all of North Wales, to Osaka Gas converting used bento boxes into biogas at a municipal sewage plant in Japan. We're also watching the equipment supply chain consolidate in real time, institutional capital arriving in new markets, and England's mandatory food waste collection rollout delivering 95 tonnes to anaerobic digestion in its first week. In this episode, we cover: MOL Group brings Hungary's third biomethane plant online at Szarvas — 7 million cubic metres of annual output, grid-injected, and a blueprint for Central and Eastern European expansion Lithuania restructures domestic biomethane pricing as the sector records 2.4x growth in guarantees of origin year-on-year and joins the European ERGaR cross-border certificate trading hub Burckhardt Compression acquires Fornovo Gas — a 57-year-old Italian biogas compressor specialist — signalling that the industrial supply chain is being priced in ahead of a scaling wave Greenlane Renewables and Panasonic do Brasil formalize local manufacturing of biogas upgrading technology, targeting Brazil's forecast sevenfold output growth by 2035 Egypt's first PPP wastewater plant gets a biogas power generation unit — a retrofit model with implications for hundreds of flaring facilities across the African continent Brazil's Biorrota project deploys a nine-axle, 74-tonne biomethane truck on the sugar route to the Port of Santos, fuelled by vinasse from the sugarcane ethanol process Seaweed-derived cobalt hydrochar boosts methane production from antibiotic-contaminated chicken manure by 25% while cutting resistance genes by 65% in a new study from Shenyang Agricultural University Spain's Turn2X plant claims a European first — synthetic methane from green hydrogen and biogenic CO₂ injected directly into the gas distribution network Osaka Gas converts used bioplastic bento containers into biogas via anaerobic digestion, pointing toward sewage treatment facilities as multi-stream organic waste receivers Welsh Water's Wrexham AD facility quietly heats homes across the region using biogas from sewage collected across all of North Wales — and most people had no idea 44,000 households in Cannock Chase recycle 95 tonnes of food waste in week one of England's mandatory collection rollout — all of it going straight to anaerobic digestion Exclusive: We Are Biogas sits down with Ben Martin, Founder and Director of Redrock Bioenergy, for a conversation that covers the living biology at the heart of every AD plant, the feedstock insight that doubled gas output from a 25% increase in volume, the structural dysfunction inside Ireland's regulatory architecture, and — the part that changes everything — the methane the entire global industry isn't counting. The emissions avoided from landfills, manure lagoons, and uncovered slurry stores that never appear in the support mechanisms, the carbon accounting, or the public case for biogas. Full article read-through included. If you work in renewable gas, waste management, infrastructure investment, circular economy, agricultural energy, or climate policy — this one is for you. 📩 We Are Biogas subscribers have exclusive access to a 5% discount on the NRG Global Advisory Project Finance Masterclass. Six live modules on how you actually fund a biogas project. Cohorts are capped at 15 seats, and they are going fast. DM Chris Negus and tell him We Are Biogas sent you. 🌍 Explore more stories, insights, and media from across the global biogas industry: https://wearebiogas.com 📩 Want your story told, or have a topic you want us to cover next? Reach out directly: alexandra@wearebiogas.com 🔗 Let’s connect and keep the conversation going: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrarng/
May 12 · 22 min
Açaí Biogas, Donut Feedstock, Latvia's Grid Revolution & Unlocking 17,000 US Projects With Kevin Gross #7
This week on We Are Biogas, we're watching the biogas world move in every direction at once — from a novel feedstock certification in the Amazon, to a grid access breakthrough in the Baltics, to a research lab in Washington State quietly tripling what we thought was possible from sewage sludge. The story this week is scale, speed, and the very specific problem standing between 2,600 operating projects and 17,000 potential ones. In this episode, we cover: Greater Anglia diverts 104,000 kg of food waste from its UK rail network into anaerobic digestion — a fourfold increase in a single year Hungary's Budapest Biogas Summit delivers a candid verdict: the ambition is real, the targets are set, and the regulatory framework still hasn't caught up Latvia approves €4.7M to let small biomethane producers access the national gas grid without individual connections — and the support programme was already oversubscribed three times over Indian villages running on cow dung digesters are cooking through an LPG supply crisis that's generating queues across the country Sosteneo and Generali Investments move into Italian biomethane project portfolios as infrastructure-grade capital arrives to consolidate Europe's most active development market HAM Group completes biomethane rollout across 140+ European refuelling stations — the network is built, now it's waiting on fleets WSU researchers triple biogas yields from sewage sludge with a two-stage system and a patented bacterial strain — and cut disposal costs in half in the same process The EU-funded CARMA-H2 project converts biogas directly into hydrogen through a ceramic membrane in a single step, with capture-ready biogenic CO₂ as a by-product Researchers in Amapá, Brazil receive viability certification for a biogas pathway from açaí seeds that doesn't exist anywhere else in the world Krispy Kreme's UK operations send 25% of unsold doughnuts to anaerobic digestion — and the gap between their UK and US waste behaviour tells you exactly what policy pressure does to feedstock supply Exclusive: We Are Biogas sits down with Kevin Gross, founder of Gross & Co., for a deep dive into the $450 billion engineering frontier sitting largely dormant across the United States. With room for 17,000 more biogas projects and only a quarter of total potential captured, Kevin breaks down why most projects die before they're built — and how his firm's assumptions-first methodology and six-week sprint to a Class 2 estimate is changing the development calculus entirely. Full article read-through included. If you work in renewable gas, waste management, infrastructure investment, circular economy, or sustainable agriculture — this one covers a lot of ground. Stay for all of it. 📩 Interested in connecting with the biogas investment and advisory community? Email Chris Negus at NRG Global Advisory to secure your discounted seat today. chris@globalnrgadvisory.co.uk 🌍 Explore more stories, insights, and media from across the global biogas industry: https://wearebiogas.com 📩 Want your story told, or have a topic you want us to cover next? Reach out directly: alexandra@wearebiogas.com 🔗 Let’s connect and keep the conversation going: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrarng/
May 5 · 33 min
The Floor Builders: How Certifications, Contracts, and Community Digesters Are Constructing the Global Biogas Market #6
This week on We Are Biogas, we unpack a defining moment for the global biogas industry — one where the technology is proven, the capital is moving, and the real work is building the systems that make it all last. From the EU blocking biomethane support mechanisms in two countries in the same week, to India opening its gas grid to compressed biogas for the first time, to a billion-dollar valuation landing in food waste-to-RNG — the floor is being built in real time. In this episode, we cover: The EU targets France after blocking Ireland's domestic biomethane multiplier — a pattern every member state needs to watch India's PNGRB approves landmark grid injection guidelines for compressed biogas Mobius Renewables acquires Air Liquide's entire global biogas portfolio across the US and Europe Ireland's RHO design flaw and why it may trigger biomethane imports instead of domestic production Divert opens its Longview, Washington facility and hits a billion-dollar valuation backed by Mitsubishi Gaia EnviroTech contracted for biogas system at Victoria's largest mutton abattoir Twenty pig farmers in rural Brazil eliminate their gas bills with swine waste biodigesters Biogas-to-hydrogen could halve production costs versus electrolysis Syzygy Plasmonics begins design on the world's first electrified biogas-to-SAF plant in Uruguay Anaerobic digestion confirmed as the top-performing end-of-life pathway for bio-based plastics DOE commits $20.2M to advance algae and wet waste feedstock conversion Biogas meets the US data center boom under new federal tax credits Zambia's community biogas model powering homes, irrigation, and food production Brazil's pipeline infrastructure gap identified as the primary biomethane growth constraint Evonik brings European membrane upgrading technology to Southeast Asia Exclusive: Alexandra does a full read-through of this week's We Are Biogas essay — "Before the Market Can Move, We Have to Build the Floor" — a month-in-the-making analysis drawing on four conversations with practitioners across four continents on why biogas is no longer waiting on technology. It's waiting on the systems around it. If you work in renewable gas, energy transition, circular economy, sustainable agriculture, climate tech, or infrastructure investment — this one's for you. 🌍 Explore more stories, insights, and media from across the global biogas industry: https://wearebiogas.com 📩 Want your story told, or have a topic you want us to cover next? Reach out directly: alexandra@wearebiogas.com 🔗 Let’s connect and keep the conversation going: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrarng/