Global Biogas News Round-Up | January 2026
Curated by the World Biogas Association, the Global Biogas News Round-Up brings you the latest and most important stories from the world of biogas.
Biogas news in a nutshell
A not so quiet January for the biogas sector. A €1.5 billion investment fund announces targeted biomethane expansion across Europe. Poland and Estonia launch schemes to champion grid injection and energy security. Six 60GWh biomethane plants to be built in Spain on back of a gas purchase agreement with the utilities. Meanwhile, innovative biogas-2-SAF producer lands long-term deal for future output. South Africa backs community biogas to deliver rural resilience for farmers and in Brazil micro-AD plants installed on schools as a practical example of the circular economy in action. Finally, INEOS signs carbon removals deal with Swiss biomethane producer.
Links to top stories
California state biogas incentives make it a more cost-effective energy source for powering electrolysis than solar, says green hydrogen producer H2B2 Electrolysis Technologies. Read more >
Work starts on the first biomethane plant in Tunisia, supported by the national government, UN development programme and governments of Japan and Italy. Read more >
South African studies support the deployment of communal biogas systems to insulate small-scale farmers power outages and rising fuel costs disrupting irrigation, cold storage and on-farm processing. Read more >
The government of Estonia funds a central gas injection point for biomethane producers, to promote its use in decarbonising the gas network instead of as transport fuel. Read more >
Innovative Biogas-2-SAF producer Syzygy Plasmonics signs a binding 6-year deal to supply the total output from its Uruguay plant to global commodities supplier Trafigura – with an extension clause covering other production centres. Read more >
A joint initiative between São José dos Campos City Hall in Brazil and Home Biogas will see 100 microdigesters installed in schools, to educate children on the circular economy, integrating waste management, production of renewable energy and environmental education in a single project. Read more >
Moeve (formerly Cepsa) signs agreement with biogas specialist Pretium Renovables to build up to six biomethane plants in Spain, each with an estimated production capacity of 60 GWh per year. Read more >
Germany’s EnviTec to build three biomethane plants in Lithuania, citing policy uncertainty in Germany as part of its decision to expand operations. Read more >
A 20-year RNG offtake agreement signed last June between Canadian companies EverGen and FortisBC is now in effect, supplying 160,000 gigajoules (~44GWh) annually to British Columbia’s natural gas system. Read more >
The Polish Green Fund has signed a 59 million złoty ($16.2 million) investment agreement with Green Gas Energy for nine new on-farm biomethane plants – a pilot scheme to consider “biomethane as a real pillar of the country’s energy security”. Read more >
Spain’s Naturgy and Enagás, via their subsidiary Scale Green Energy, will promote greener shipping in the Iberian Peninsula by building and operating a new ‘Mistral LNG’ vessel to supply LNG and bioLNG to all types of shipping. Read more >
Spanish investment group Asterion Industrial Partners plans to invest €1.5 billion ($1.75 billion) to expand its biomethane production platform in multiple European countries, targeting 20 operational facilities by the end of 2026. Read more >
SoCalGas connects its first landfill-based renewable natural gas project to the California grid – with Waste Management’s Simi Valley landfill facility expected to supply 2.2 million MMBtu per year. Read more >
A Swiss BECCS project has secured a long-term deal with INEOS to store biogenic CO₂ captured from biomethane production in the Danish North Sea from 2026, marking a key step in proving cross-border CO₂ transport and permanent storage in Europe. Read more >
Government decree in Colombia establishes the basis for renewable gas injection, quality standards and commercial access, enabling biogas and upgraded biomethane to compete alongside fossil gas. Read more >
Modelling undertaken by Brazilian consulting firm ITC, simulating operations controlled by AI and advanced sensors on a sugar-energy plant (milling, fermentation, biogas, sugar factory), generates direct gains in the industrial process of R$ 9 million per year. Read more >