Search results: biomethane
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Record Biomethane Capacity in Europe – Just Five Countries Produce 95%
According to the latest map from EBA and GIE, the continent's biomethane production grew by 17% in a year, but 95% of capacity is still concentrated in just five countries.
Europe's Biomethane Turning Point: Strategy or Falling Behind?
Two new industry documents – the IGU's 2026 assessment and the Joint Biomethane Declaration – agree: biomethane is Europe's only immediate, scalable domestic alternative to imported gas.
Germany Plans Green Gas Quota for Home Heating
…sector, and discussed them with associations for the first time on 16 October 2026. For biomethane producers, the plan could create a large new market. Whether it does depends on details that the industry is already contesting. What the key points…
Biogas Is Getting Cooler in Europe
Four important pieces of news about the European biogas and biomethane market have emerged in recent weeks. Each is noteworthy on its own – together they signal that the process is accelerating. Denmark: a record, but not enough Denmark has long been…
Europe's First Cross-Border BECCS Chain Launches
…spanning several countries and transport modes went into commercial operation: the biomethane plant in Niederwil, Switzerland, now continuously collects, liquefies and exports biogenic carbon dioxide, which is finally stored permanently beneath the…
Pricing Avoided Methane: What 45Z Teaches Europe
A model update in the United States quadrupled the tax credit for dairy-farm biomethane overnight, because the US credit pays for carbon intensity, while the European Union mostly measures the same performance as a pass or a fail.
Biogas Clusters Could Cut Injection Costs by 55%
…a shared upgrading unit and injection point, investment falls by up to 55% and the biomethane injected rises by 16% compared with connecting plants one by one.
Gas Prices Climb as a Biogas Builder Fails
In the first full week of October, European gas passed €80/MWh, new biomethane supply chains took shape from Sumatra to Mazovia, and a Danish contractor with 52 plants to its name went bankrupt.
Five Regulatory Barriers Holding Back European Biogas
The European Biogas Association has mapped what is slowing the growth of biogas and biomethane across five areas, and points to national examples that show how each barrier can be overcome.
Brussels Visibly Boosts the Biogas Industry in Some Older Member States
Within a single week, the European Investment Fund launched one of Europe's largest biomethane infrastructure funds with a €200 million investment, while the EU's Fertiliser Action Plan declared digestate a key resource for circular agriculture.