Global Biogas News Round-Up | July and August 2025
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
August
From passenger ferries to large container shipping, the use and bunkering of bio-LNG as maritime fuel accelerates. States across India launch support packages to incentivise biogas development. Advanced biofuels’ projects utilise biogas in processes to produce green ethanol and syngas. Biogas deal inked to power a data centre in Singapore.
July
Greece acts to secure over €2 billion for biomethane development from the EU’s Recovery and Resilience Fund. Chad receives the backing of the African Development Bank for its circular economy action plan. The Nordic Investment Bank backs carbon capture from AD with over €30 million funding. The French Senate challenges the government to set more ambitious biomethane targets, Espirito Santos in Brazil reduces taxes by 85% to stimulate the market, and influential political bloc in Jordan calls for a national waste strategy for biogas. India celebrates the first plant to inject biomethane into the grid. Finally, in Australia, brickworks switches to biogas to fire its kilns.
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August
The Bihar state government in India has updated its “Biofuels Production Promotion Policy 2025” to encourage more investment in compressed biogas, including capital subsidy, loan interest discount and additional tax breaks. READ STORY
Swiss based Axpo Group successfully completes Spain‘s first ship-to-ship bio-LNG bunkering operation in the large container shipping industry at the Port of Algeciras, building on recent bunkering successes in key ports, including Málaga and Sines. READ STORY
TUI Cruises has bunkered its first ship-to-ship supplies of ISCC-certified bio-LNG at the port of Barcelona, supplied by Spanish gas operator Enagas, as the cruise line eyes a full decarbonisation of its operational fleet through diversified biofuels. READ STORY
Egypt partners with UNIDO and Eni to develop a biogas plant with a capacity of 5,000m3 per day – part of a wider initiative to expand biogas deployment across the country. READ STORY
Indonesian state-owned gas company Perusahaan Gas Negara (PGN) has signed an MoU with Neutra DC Singapore, a subsidiary of PT Telkom Data Ekosistem, to supply biomethane to power data centre operations in Singapore. READ STORY
Finnish passenger ferry Viking Line will boost its biogas purchasing by sixfold this year and will offer passengers the option of fossil-free maritime transport for the first time on all of its routes. READ STORY
South Korea’s Biofriends and Cheongmyeong have agreed to build and operate a methanol plant using biogas as feedstock, which will initially be supplied domestically to methanol-fuelled ships. READ STORY
UK investment firm VisionEdgeOne (VE1) is set to take a 50% stake in Italy’s RE2Sources, forecasting the country’s biomethane market will grow rapidly at c.30% CAGR towards 2030, thanks to “excellent feedstock availability and policy support”. READ STORY
Consumer goods producer Unilever has begun using biomethane from palm oil waste instead of natural gas at its Indonesian oleochemicals plant in North Sumatra. READ STORY
China’s Furui Energy Service has begun work on Brazil’s first biogas-based bio-LNG project, part of its planned expansion in South America, offering LNG production and logistics services. READ STORY
The Himachal Pradesh state government in India has announced a 40% subsidy for biogas plants – with the agro-state having the feedstock potential to generate about 3.8 million cubic meters of biogas per day. READ STORY
America’s Vanguard Renewables enters deal with with the CMA CGM Group – a global leader in sea, land, air and logistics solutions – to supply RNG as shipping fuel. READ STORY
America’s Circularity Fuels has announced a biogas breakthrough – converting biogas to liquefied syngas, a precursor for SAF production, using a compact electric processing unit that can be retrofitted to biogas plants, including on-farm. READ STORY
Dutch global shipping company Van Oord has completed its first bunkering of bio-LNG onto a dredger on the Elbe River in Germany. READ STORY
UK-based Quercus Real Assets and Elionia close €76 million financing for the construction of three biomethane plants in Italy. READ STORY
The Indian state of Goa has drafted a policy to promote bioenergy production with a strong focus on biogas, offering a range of incentives including financial support and fast-tracking clearances, and easing regulatory procedures. READ STORY
July
Greenfields Indonesia opens the largest biogas reactor for the dairy sector in East Java. READ STORY
Greece’s energy regulator, gas grid operator and distribution network operators collaborate on removing barriers to biomethane production in the country, to unlock €2.1 billion euros in EU grants under the Recovery and Resilience Fund. READ STORY
Greece amends biomethane bill after stakeholder engagement to make grid connection free (up to 3km) and enable virtual pipelines to avoid flaring. READ STORY
Chad charts its course towards sustainability with the support of the African Development Bank Circular Economy Facility, with biogas a central pillar. READ STORY
Ghana’s Ministry of Energy and Green Transition has committed to support a national biogas initiative aimed at equipping Senior High Schools with biodigesters and clean energy technology to reduce dependence on traditional fuels for cooking. READ STORY
The Nordic Investment Bank is providing DKK305 million (~US$32 million) to BioCirc under the InvestEU programme to develop systems for capturing and transporting bioCO₂ from biomethane production for permanent storage under the North Sea through Denmark’s Project Greensand. READ STORY
The Greater Paris Sanitation Authority and SUEZ have inaugurated a new biogas plant at the Seine Aval wastewater treatment centre, serving 6 million residents in Paris it is the largest of its kind in Europe. READ STORY
French senators overwhelmingly back amendment to Energy Planning Bill, setting a sectoral target of 50 TWh for biogas by 2030, of which 44 TWh is to be injected into the grid, above the revised national strategy and against the government’s advice. READ STORY
Iberis Capital acquires majority stake in Dourogás GNV in Portugal to scale biomethane-powered transport infrastructure. READ STORY
Namibia joins the Global Biofuels Alliance and strengthens ties for south-south development of ‘resilient infrastructure’ during an official visit from India’s PM Modi. READ STORY
India’s Ministry of Petroleum and Natural Gas has amended the subsidy regime for CBG plants to support investment in aggregation technology. READ STORY
Biomethane is injected into the city grid distribution network for the first time in India, setting a precedent for more efficient pipeline supply. READ STORY
The East Jakarta City Government (Pemkot) in Indonesia has started to capture biogas from septic tanks connected to communal toilets in three urban villages, as part of a national sanitation drive. READ STORY
Biorig, the renewable natural gas division of Spain’s Solarig, is to invest €300 million developing a portfolio of 20 biomethane plants in Italy by 2030, targeting 1.25 TWh/year, equivalent to the energy needs of 450,000 households. READ STORY
The Association of German Transport Companies welcomes drive from the EU Transport Committee (TRAN Committee) for low-emissions fuels including biogas and biomethane to have a zero tax rate over a period of 10 years. READ STORY
DN Agrar Group, one of the leading integrated agrifood companies in Romania and largest dairy milk producer from Europe, and BSOG Energy ink agreement to develop one of the country’s largest biomethane plants. READ STORY
Alguaire airport in Spain has issued tenders to develop three on-site SAF research centres to evaluate low-carbon fuel options, including one focused on biogas. READ STORY
The Kepak Group, a leading agrifood company in Ireland, has secured formal approval of its climate targets across Scope 1-3 emissions on a 1.5C pathway, and includes ongoing investment in anaerobic digestion, from the Science Based Targets initiative. READ STORY
Ireland’s national planning appeals authority has overturned Donegal County Council’s decision to refuse planning permission for an agriculture biogas plant, calling it “a benefit to supporting national and regional renewable energy”. READ STORY
Australian brick manufacturer Austral Bricks commissions the Delorean Corporation to build a AU$81.4 million (€48.8 million), 150,000 tonnes/year biogas plant to fire its kilns, enhancing its position as a carbon neutral manufacturer. READ STORY
The Unilever Group‘s plant in Sao Paulo, Brazil, starts powering process boilers with biomethane instead of natural gas, part of the company’s ongoing drive to achieve zero absolute Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions in its operations (scope 1 and 2) by 2030. READ STORY
The State Assembly in Espírito Santo, Brazil, approves 85% reduction on the Circulation of Goods and Services (ICMS) tax levied on the production of biogas and biomethane. READ STORY
Weltec Holding rebrands as Nexogas Holding, positioning itself as a designer for “green gas solutions of the future”, with the aim of increasing biomethane output and producing green CO2 through the development and purchase of new facilities. READ STORY
Polish multinational the Orlen Group and Krajowa Grupa Spozywcza (KGS), Poland’s largest state-owned agri-food group, have signed an Mou to develop and scale a nationwide biomethane portfolio. READ STORY
Parliamentary bloc in Jordan call for the creation of a national waste management plan in support of biogas production. READ STORY
The Punjab government has successfully conducted its first pilot project to produce biogas from animal waste under the “Suthra Punjab Waste to Value Project”. READ STORY