https://feedstockdata.com/category/biogas/Biogasen-gbFri, 06 Nov 2026 08:00:00 +0000https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/slupsk-bioenergy-island-sewage-sludge-biogas-energy-storage/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/slupsk-bioenergy-island-sewage-sludge-biogas-energy-storage/Thu, 29 Oct 2026 08:00:00 +0000BiogasConstruction of the Słupsk Bioenergy Island (Słupska Wyspa Bioenergetyczna) is under way at the wastewater treatment plant in Słupsk: sludge hydrolysis, a 2,700 m³ biogas tank, 1 MW cogeneration, 1 MW/2.4 MWh energy storage and a heat pump. Cost PLN 62.1 million, of which about PLN 37.25 million from the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (KPO).https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/rybnik-niewiadom-municipal-biogas-plant-environmental-decision-upheld/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/rybnik-niewiadom-municipal-biogas-plant-environmental-decision-upheld/Tue, 29 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000BiogasThe Local Government Appeals Board in Katowice upheld the environmental decision for the municipal biogas plant in Rybnik-Niewiadom on a reclaimed spoil heap. A residents' association protested; the decision can be appealed to the Voivodeship Administrative Court (WSA).https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/chp-heat-or-biomethane-technical-criteria-for-choosing-a-biogas-route/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/chp-heat-or-biomethane-technical-criteria-for-choosing-a-biogas-route/Sun, 27 Sep 2026 08:00:00 +0000BiogasThree main routes: cogeneration, heat alone and upgrading to biomethane. A comparison of technical requirements, scale, off-takers, efficiency and risks, without rates and prices.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/biogas-composition-and-quantity-variability-ch4-co2-and-substrate-influence/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/biogas-composition-and-quantity-variability-ch4-co2-and-substrate-influence/Wed, 26 Aug 2026 08:00:00 +0000BiogasAgricultural biogas is usually 50–65% CH₄, the rest mainly CO₂. Where fluctuations over the day and the season come from, how the substrate affects composition, and how to measure gas flow and composition correctly.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/biogas-plant-mass-and-energy-balance-worked-example/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/biogas-plant-mass-and-energy-balance-worked-example/Sat, 25 Jul 2026 08:00:00 +0000BiogasStep by step: from the mass of substrates and their VS to methane production, energy in the fuel, and net electricity and heat. Explicit assumptions, tables and a sanity check of the result.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/acidogenesis-and-acetogenesis-acids-hydrogen-and-syntrophy/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/acidogenesis-and-acetogenesis-acids-hydrogen-and-syntrophy/Tue, 19 May 2026 08:00:00 +0000BiogasAcidogenesis and acetogenesis convert the products of hydrolysis into acids, hydrogen and acetate. We explain why these stages depend on cooperation with methanogens and what their disruption means for the operator.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/cibiogas-panorama-2025-1803-biogas-plants-brazil/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/cibiogas-panorama-2025-1803-biogas-plants-brazil/Fri, 24 Apr 2026 08:00:00 +0000BiogasAccording to the CIBiogás Biogas Panorama 2025, about 1,803 biogas installations operate in Brazil, and production is approaching 5 billion Nm³ a year; a 5% rise in number and 6% in volume.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/shikaoi-hokkaido-slurry-biogas-and-hydrogen-from-biomethane/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/shikaoi-hokkaido-slurry-biogas-and-hydrogen-from-biomethane/Tue, 01 Apr 2025 08:00:00 +0000BiogasThe Environmental Conservation Center in Shikaoi has operated since 2007 and processes slurry; since 2017 biogas has been upgraded with membranes and converted to hydrogen, and since 2022 a hydrogen station has operated there.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/eib-accepts-polish-high-efficiency-biogas-cogeneration-programme-pln-1-billion/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/eib-accepts-polish-high-efficiency-biogas-cogeneration-programme-pln-1-billion/Wed, 26 Mar 2025 08:00:00 +0000BiogasOn 26 March 2025 NFOŚiGW announced the acceptance by the European Investment Bank of the programme "High-efficiency cogeneration from biogas produced from biomass, including municipal waste": PLN 1 billion from the Modernisation Fund.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/adba-hundreds-of-small-uk-biogas-plants-to-close-by-2031/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/adba-hundreds-of-small-uk-biogas-plants-to-close-by-2031/Mon, 18 Nov 2024 08:00:00 +0000BiogasThe British Anaerobic Digestion and Bioresources Association (ADBA) has warned that after FiT and ROC support expires, hundreds of small biogas plants will cease operation by 2031. More than 160 installations will lose support within five years, and more than 400 in the following five.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/polska-grupa-biogazowa-launches-19th-agricultural-biogas-plant-in-bagdad/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/polska-grupa-biogazowa-launches-19th-agricultural-biogas-plant-in-bagdad/Tue, 01 Oct 2024 08:00:00 +0000BiogasThe company Polska Grupa Biogazowa (part of TotalEnergies) has launched in Bagdad in Greater Poland an agricultural biogas plant producing about 8.3 GWh of electricity and 8 GWh of heat a year. It is its 19th installation in Poland.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/nfosigw-consults-programme-cogeneration-from-municipal-biogas-pln-2-5-billion/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/nfosigw-consults-programme-cogeneration-from-municipal-biogas-pln-2-5-billion/Fri, 09 Aug 2024 08:00:00 +0000BiogasNFOŚiGW published for consultation (until 18 August 2024) a programme supporting high-efficiency cogeneration from municipal biogas: up to PLN 2.5 billion, including up to PLN 1 billion in grants and PLN 1.5 billion in loans.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/eon-builds-its-first-biogas-plant-in-poland-near-pultusk/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/eon-builds-its-first-biogas-plant-in-poland-near-pultusk/Mon, 01 Jul 2024 08:00:00 +0000BiogasE.ON Polska has advanced construction of its first own agricultural biogas plant near Pułtusk: 1 MWe, about 8 GWh of electricity a year, with commissioning planned for December 2024.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/korea-biogas-strategy-ministry-of-environment-500-million-nm3/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/korea-biogas-strategy-ministry-of-environment-500-million-nm3/Tue, 25 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0000BiogasThe environment ministry strategy aims at producing up to 500 million Nm³ of biogas a year by 2026, cutting emissions by 1 million t a year and processing 5.57 million t of organic waste.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/german-biogas-plants-after-eeg-expiry-tender-results-and-industry-concerns/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/german-biogas-plants-after-eeg-expiry-tender-results-and-industry-concerns/Tue, 25 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0000BiogasThe Bundesnetzagentur tender for continued support of biogas plants: 788 bids for 742 MW against a volume of 240 MW. The industry warns of closures of installations that heat schools and homes.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/epa-agstar-about-400-farm-biogas-plants-usa-2024/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/epa-agstar-about-400-farm-biogas-plants-usa-2024/Mon, 10 Jun 2024 08:00:00 +0000BiogasAccording to EPA AgSTAR, 343 commercial farm biogas plants (290 dairy) were operating in January 2023, and 400 as of June 2024; in 2023 emissions fell by 14.8 million t CO₂e.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/biogas-in-urban-agglomerations-berlin-and-oslo-examples-and-lessons-for-poland/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/biogas-in-urban-agglomerations-berlin-and-oslo-examples-and-lessons-for-poland/Sun, 25 Feb 2024 08:00:00 +0000BiogasBerlin processes biowaste at Ruhleben into biomethane for refuse trucks, and since 2012 Oslo has fuelled buses with biogas from food waste. What do these examples mean for Polish cities?https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/fenx-02-02-call-pln-300-million-for-biogas-and-biomethane-plants/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/fenx-02-02-call-pln-300-million-for-biogas-and-biomethane-plants/Mon, 12 Feb 2024 08:00:00 +0000BiogasNFOŚiGW announced the FENX.02.02 "Renewable energy development" call under the FEnIKS programme with a pool of PLN 300 million. Applications were to be accepted from 29 February to 13 May 2024.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/china-agricultural-biogas-household-digesters-to-large-plants/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/china-agricultural-biogas-household-digesters-to-large-plants/Mon, 12 Feb 2024 08:00:00 +0000BiogasFor decades China built small digesters at farms. Since the middle of the previous decade state support has been shifting towards large projects, and the number of active household installations is falling.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/korea-biogas-act-production-obligation-from-31-december-2023/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/korea-biogas-act-production-obligation-from-31-december-2023/Fri, 29 Dec 2023 08:00:00 +0000BiogasOn 28 December 2023 the Ministry of Environment announced that, from 31 December, an act has applied that obliges large producers of organic waste – pig farms, slurry treatment plants and food waste producers – to produce biogas (from 2025 for public entities, from 2026 for private ones).https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/eba-statistical-report-2023-biomethane-4-2-bcm-in-2022/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/eba-statistical-report-2023-biomethane-4-2-bcm-in-2022/Tue, 05 Dec 2023 08:00:00 +0000BiogasOn 5 December 2023 the European Biogas Association published a new statistical report: biomethane production in 2022 rose by 20% to 4.2 billion m³, and biogas and biomethane together supply 21 billion m³ of gas.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/substrate-list-agricultural-biogas-plants-regulation-october-2023/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/substrate-list-agricultural-biogas-plants-regulation-october-2023/Tue, 17 Oct 2023 08:00:00 +0000BiogasThe regulation of 12 October 2023 sets out the detailed list of substrates that may be used in an agricultural biogas plant: manure, straw, agricultural and food industry waste, by-products. It enters into force on 18 October.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/agricultural-biogas-plants-act-final-passage-july-2023-capacity-limits/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/agricultural-biogas-plants-act-final-passage-july-2023-capacity-limits/Thu, 13 Jul 2023 08:00:00 +0000BiogasOn 13 July 2023 the Sejm accepted the Senate's amendments to the act on facilitations for agricultural biogas plants. The act sets capacity limits (3.5 MW electrical), shortens land development decisions to 65 days and introduces a siting resolution.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/sweden-government-extends-support-for-slurry-biogas-q4-2023/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/sweden-government-extends-support-for-slurry-biogas-q4-2023/Wed, 12 Jul 2023 08:00:00 +0000BiogasOn 27 June 2023 the Swedish government announced support equivalent to gödselgasstöd also for Q4 2023. The pilot scheme from 2014 pays up to 40 öre per kWh of biogas from slurry.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/senate-amendments-agricultural-biogas-plants-act-june-2023/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/senate-amendments-agricultural-biogas-plants-act-june-2023/Thu, 22 Jun 2023 08:00:00 +0000BiogasOn 22 June 2023 the Senate adopted the act on facilitations for agricultural biogas plants with 28 amendments, mainly clarifying and editorial ones. The act now returns to the Sejm.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/sejm-passes-agricultural-biogas-plants-act-may-2023/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/sejm-passes-agricultural-biogas-plants-act-may-2023/Fri, 26 May 2023 08:00:00 +0000BiogasOn 26 May 2023 the Sejm passed the act on facilitating the preparation and implementation of investments in agricultural biogas plants. 449 MPs voted in favour. The act goes to the Senate.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/cattle-slurry-as-base-substrate-yield-buffering-dilution/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/cattle-slurry-as-base-substrate-yield-buffering-dilution/Wed, 29 Mar 2023 08:00:00 +0000BiogasSlurry gives a low methane yield per tonne, but it performs important functions: buffer, water, microorganisms, trace elements and lower emissions from storage. What is known about its role and limitations.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/japan-sewage-sludge-biogas-data-and-b-dash-programme/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/japan-sewage-sludge-biogas-data-and-b-dash-programme/Tue, 14 Mar 2023 08:00:00 +0000BiogasIn fiscal year 2004 Japanese wastewater treatment plants produced about 290 million m³ of biogas, of which only 20% was used to generate electricity. A review of data and of the B-DASH demonstration programme (since 2011).https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/co-digestion-how-to-plan-a-substrate-mix-without-overloading-the-digester/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/co-digestion-how-to-plan-a-substrate-mix-without-overloading-the-digester/Sat, 25 Feb 2023 08:00:00 +0000BiogasCo-digestion combines substrates with different properties. We show how to build a mix: dry matter balance, C/N, buffer, inhibition risk, logistics and the gradual introduction of changes.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/india-budget-2023-24-gobardhan-500-plants-10000-crore/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/india-budget-2023-24-gobardhan-500-plants-10000-crore/Wed, 08 Feb 2023 08:00:00 +0000BiogasIn the 2023–24 budget the finance minister announced 500 new "waste to wealth" plants: 200 CBG plants (including 75 municipal) and 300 cluster plants. Outlay: 10,000 crore rupees.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/eba-statistical-report-2022-biomethane-3-5-bcm-in-2021/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/eba-statistical-report-2022-biomethane-3-5-bcm-in-2021/Wed, 07 Dec 2022 08:00:00 +0000BiogasOn 7 December 2022 the European Biogas Association published its statistical report: biomethane production grew by 20% in 2021 to 3.5 billion m³, and biogas and biomethane together supply 18.4 billion m³ of renewable gas.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/ecogas-opens-reporoa-new-zealand-first-commercial-food-waste-digester/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/ecogas-opens-reporoa-new-zealand-first-commercial-food-waste-digester/Mon, 24 Oct 2022 08:00:00 +0000BiogasOn 20 October 2022 Ecogas officially opened the Reporoa plant – according to the company the country's first commercial-scale anaerobic digestion plant for food waste, with a throughput of 75,000 t per year.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/china-five-year-plans-biogas-biomethane-analysis/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/china-five-year-plans-biogas-biomethane-analysis/Tue, 05 Jul 2022 08:00:00 +0000BiogasHow Chinese biogas policy works: from the 13th bioenergy plan (2016) and the 2019 guidelines to the 14th renewable energy plan — and why declarations do not always equal production.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/extra-two-years-fit-fip-biogas-plants-declaration-deadline-2021/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/extra-two-years-fit-fip-biogas-plants-declaration-deadline-2021/Sat, 18 Dec 2021 08:00:00 +0000BiogasUnder the amendment to the Act on Renewable Energy Sources (Journal of Laws (Dz.U.) 2021, item 1873), biogas plants up to 1 MW can obtain an additional 24 months of support under FIT/FIP. The author of the analysis advised submitting the declaration in 2021.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/arena-bioenergy-roadmap-australia-2021/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/arena-bioenergy-roadmap-australia-2021/Fri, 26 Nov 2021 08:00:00 +0000BiogasIn November 2021 ARENA published the Bioenergy Roadmap: the sector could provide about 26,000 jobs, cut emissions by about 9% and relieve landfills of about 6% of waste.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/agreement-on-cooperation-biogas-and-biomethane-23-november-2021/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/agreement-on-cooperation-biogas-and-biomethane-23-november-2021/Tue, 23 Nov 2021 08:00:00 +0000BiogasOn 23 November 2021 the Minister of Climate and Environment and representatives of the government and industry signed a sector agreement for biogas and biomethane. The document contains no quantitative targets, but announces changes to the Act on Renewable Energy Sources and the Act on biocomponents.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/agroenergia-part-2-call-for-agricultural-biogas-plants-up-to-500-kw-nfosigw/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/agroenergia-part-2-call-for-agricultural-biogas-plants-up-to-500-kw-nfosigw/Tue, 20 Jul 2021 08:00:00 +0000BiogasThe National Fund for Environmental Protection and Water Management (NFOŚiGW) launched a call in part 2 of the Agroenergia programme: grants and loans for farmers for agricultural biogas plants and small hydropower plants up to 500 kW, with a budget of up to PLN 74.5 million.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/mexico-farm-biodigesters-firco-support-unam-assessment/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/mexico-farm-biodigesters-firco-support-unam-assessment/Mon, 14 Jun 2021 08:00:00 +0000BiogasAn overview of Mexican agricultural biodigesters based on an assessment prepared at UNAM (data from around 2010): 345 confirmed installations, and the role of the CDM and FIRCO support.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/africa-biogas-partnership-programme-kenya-east-africa-biodigesters/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/africa-biogas-partnership-programme-kenya-east-africa-biodigesters/Tue, 20 Apr 2021 08:00:00 +0000BiogasThe ABPP programme (SNV, Hivos and the Dutch Ministry of Foreign Affairs) covered Ethiopia, Kenya, Tanzania, Uganda and Burkina Faso. The figures given by the organisers differ; we explain what follows from them.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/orlen-takes-over-biogas-plant-in-szepietowo-chp-energia/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/orlen-takes-over-biogas-plant-in-szepietowo-chp-energia/Fri, 19 Mar 2021 08:00:00 +0000BiogasOrlen bought 70.15% of the shares in CHP Energia, the owner of a 1.2 MWe biogas plant in the Podlaskie region. The sale agreement was signed on 18 March 2021, after the purchase of the biogas plant in Konopnica.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/eba-statistical-report-2020-18943-biogas-plants-725-biomethane-plants/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/eba-statistical-report-2020-18943-biogas-plants-725-biomethane-plants/Mon, 25 Jan 2021 08:00:00 +0000BiogasThe European Biogas Association published on 25 January 2021 a report for 2019: 167 TWh of biogas and 26 TWh of biomethane, with data from 19 countries.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/malaysia-pome-biogas-palm-oil-mills-methane-industrial-effluent/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/malaysia-pome-biogas-palm-oil-mills-methane-industrial-effluent/Tue, 12 Jan 2021 08:00:00 +0000BiogasPalm oil mills produce POME effluent with a high organic matter content. Since 2014 new and expanded mills in Malaysia have had to have biogas capture or methane avoidance systems.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/germany-bundestag-passes-eeg-2021-biogas-biomass-framework/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/germany-bundestag-passes-eeg-2021-biogas-biomass-framework/Thu, 17 Dec 2020 08:00:00 +0000BiogasIn mid-December 2020 the Bundestag adopted an amendment to the Renewable Energy Sources Act (EEG 2021), applicable from 1 January 2021. For biogas, the southern quota in tenders and the bonuses for small slurry plants are important.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/orlen-poludnie-buys-agricultural-biogas-plant-konopnica-biomethane/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/orlen-poludnie-buys-agricultural-biogas-plant-konopnica-biomethane/Mon, 14 Dec 2020 08:00:00 +0000BiogasOrlen Południe has taken over a 1.99 MWe biogas plant in the Rawa Mazowiecka municipality. The installation is to be converted into a biomethane plant producing about 7 million m³ per year, with the change planned for 2022.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/trace-elements-in-biogas-plants-cobalt-nickel-selenium-molybdenum-iron/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/trace-elements-in-biogas-plants-cobalt-nickel-selenium-molybdenum-iron/Tue, 17 Nov 2020 08:00:00 +0000BiogasA deficiency of micronutrients can bring the process to a halt even with a correct mix. We explain the role of Co, Ni, Se, Mo, W and Fe, the symptoms of deficiency and the rules of safe supplementation.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/hydrogen-sulphide-in-the-digester-sources-inhibition-iron-dosing/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/hydrogen-sulphide-in-the-digester-sources-inhibition-iron-dosing/Fri, 16 Oct 2020 08:00:00 +0000BiogasWhere H₂S in biogas comes from, how it inhibits methanogenesis, what its concentration depends on and how iron binds sulphides in the digester. Indicative values and pitfalls.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/government-industry-letter-of-intent-biogas-biomethane-october-2020/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/government-industry-letter-of-intent-biogas-biomethane-october-2020/Tue, 13 Oct 2020 08:00:00 +0000BiogasOn 13 October 2020 the minister of climate and industry representatives signed a letter of intent on a partnership for the development of biogas and biomethane. It is the start of a process leading to a sector agreement.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/thailand-biogas-wastewater-manure-aedp-targets-development/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/thailand-biogas-wastewater-manure-aedp-targets-development/Tue, 15 Sep 2020 08:00:00 +0000BiogasThailand developed biogas mainly alongside agri-food industry and farms. In October 2016, 412 MW of installations were operating, and the 2015 AEDP plan envisaged 600 MW from wastewater and manure and 680 MW from energy crops by 2036.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/volatile-fatty-acids-vfa-in-a-biogas-plant-profile-thresholds-propionate/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/volatile-fatty-acids-vfa-in-a-biogas-plant-profile-thresholds-propionate/Mon, 14 Sep 2020 08:00:00 +0000BiogasAcetate, propionate, butyrate and valerate are the everyday picture of the state of the process. We explain how to measure them, how to read the propionate-to-acetate ratio and when to react.https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/ammonia-in-the-digester-inhibition-thresholds-and-remedies/https://feedstockdata.com/knowledge/ammonia-in-the-digester-inhibition-thresholds-and-remedies/Thu, 13 Aug 2020 08:00:00 +0000BiogasFree ammonia (NH₃) inhibits methanogenesis. We explain the dependence on pH and temperature, show the calculation step by step and set out the remedial options.