The biogas and biomethane market is shaped by EU rules (including the RED directives, the Methane Regulation and the EU ETS) and national ones (the Renewable Energy Sources Act, the Energy Law, the Waste Act).
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The top-up to the price of electricity from biogas in Slovakia lasts 15 years and expires for most installations in 2025–2028. The industry is fighting for changes in the amendment to Acts 251/2012 and 309/2009.
The RED III directive raises the renewables target for 2030, changes the sustainability criteria and creates an EU database of renewable fuels. We explain the effects for biogas plants and the state of implementation in Poland.
On 13 November 2025 lawmaker Jeong Heeyong submitted a bill that will remove livestock farmers from the group of obligatory biogas producers. Farms with at least 25,000 pigs were to be covered by the obligation from 1 January 2026.
Real Decreto 917/2025 of 15 October 2025 amends articles 11 and 21 of RD 413/2014: it adjusts the calculation of equivalent hours for hybrid installations with energy storage.
A summary of the most important changes to the Act on Renewable Energy Sources since 2022 that affect biogas and biomethane: the special act for agricultural biogas plants, registers, guarantees, biomethane support and new thresholds.
On 18 September 2025 the European Commission approved the German package for biomass and biogas, which increases support by €7.9 billion. The new rules apply from the tender of 1 October 2025.
The decree of 8 September 2025 amends and then repeals the BG16 tariff: new biogas power plants will no longer receive a purchase obligation, and producers have gained an easier route to biomethane injection.
According to reports of 19 September 2025, the Romanian government is preparing an emergency ordinance that will define the biomethane producer and its rights and obligations. The strategy target: 5% biomethane in the gas grid by 2030.
The September 2025 review did not change the Green Gas Support Scheme rates: Tier 1 6.86 p/kWh, Tier 2 4.26, Tier 3 3.98. Since 2022 the Tier 1 rate has risen from 5.51 to 6.86 p/kWh.
An analysis of Argentina's attempts to create a framework for hydrogen: the never-regulated Law 26.123 of 2006, the bills of 2019–2023 and the Fundar report of August 2025 calling for a law to be passed.
On 21 August 2025 President Karol Nawrocki vetoed an amendment to the Act on Renewable Energy Sources which contained auctions for biomethane and a change in the minimum distance of wind turbines from buildings (from 700 to 500 m).
How the Act on Renewable Energy Sources defines biomethane, who counts as a producer and which register you must enter: URE or KOWR. Deadlines, obligations and reports.
The Central Electricity Regulatory Commission (CERC) set generic tariffs for 1 July 2025 – 31 March 2026: biogas 10.88 Rs/kWh, biomass 9.43–10.63 Rs/kWh, bagasse cogeneration 7.33–9.18 Rs/kWh.
The One Big Beautiful Bill Act extended the 45Z credit to the end of 2029, tightened feedstock requirements and left an exception for manure-based fuels. For 45Y/48E the sources do not settle the fate of biogas.
On 25 June 2025 the European Commission adopted the Clean Industrial Deal State Aid Framework (CISAF). It is meant to make it easier to create support schemes for renewable energy and decarbonisation.
On 21 May 2025 the transposition deadline for most provisions of the RED III Directive passed. For biomass fuels the sustainability criteria now cover installations from 7.5 MW (biogas from 2 MW).
On 21 May 2025 the transposition deadline for the RED III Directive expired. Most Member States did not meet it.
On 29 April 2025 the Council of Ministers adopted amendments to the draft act on investments in wind power plants (Sejm print 1130): direct pipelines will also cover biomethane, and the President of the Energy Regulatory Office (URE) will not examine the conditions of consent.
On 23 April 2025 the NIK Board approved the results of the audit "Use of biogas for energy generation". NIK pointed out that the lack of actions in the Ministry of Climate and Environment's plans and of a chapter on biomethane in KPEiK hindered a coherent policy.
Regulation 2019/1009 allows digestate and compost to be placed on the EU market with the CE marking. We explain the PFC categories, the CMC 3, 4 and 5 components, conformity assessment and the relationship with the national digestate product.
On 18 February 2025 the Japanese government approved the 7th Strategic Energy Plan, the climate action plan and the GX2040 Vision: renewables 40–50%, nuclear about 20%, fossil fuels 30–40%.
Regulation (EU) 2024/1787 regulates methane emissions in the energy sector: oil, natural gas and coal. What it contains, who it applies to, and how it may affect biogas plants and the biomethane market.
A review of the draft amendment of 25 February 2025: auctions for biomethane plants above 1 MW in segments of <2 MW, 2–6 MW and >6 MW, imports of up to 5% of volume, about 53 installations by 2030 and up to 300 million m³ a year.
In February 2025 the Australian parliament passed the Hydrogen Production Tax Incentive: AUD 2 per kilogram of renewable hydrogen for up to 10 years for projects from 2027–28 to 2039–40.
