Global Biogas News Round-Up | June 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
Poland continues to ramp up support for on-farm biogas production, with a new auction announced. In Germany, farmers to get a transport allowance to take manures and slurries to nearest AD plant. Oilive oil and sugar manufacturers in Europe ‘futureproof’ operations with biogas. Mexico, Dominican Republic and Cuba collaborate on biogas solution to invasive seaweed. Carbon currency landmarks achieved in Denmark and Argentina. Italy successfully issues its first green bond to back biomethane development. EU Bank of reconstruction and development backs CHP conversion in Latvia. Finally, California beaming as trial of on-farm biogas-to-SAF-conversion successfully concludes.
Links to top stories
Commercial fleets fuelled by RNG in California achieved carbon-negative transportation outcomes for the sixth consecutive year, according to a report, and generated over 25% of all greenhouse gas emission reductions across the sector. Read more>
Waste Connections of Canada in partnership with Enbridge Gas opens a $100 million landfill gas recovery project in Ontario, comprising an RNG injection station and a 5.7km pipeline to capture 62.6 million cubic metres of pipeline-quality RNG annually. Read more>
France’s Waga Energy has signed a 20-year agreement to develop, construct and operate and landfill gas recovery plant in North Carolina, America – with an initial design capacity of 3,000 cubic feet of pipeline-quality RNG per minute. Read more>
Ireland launches first-of-its-kind National Biorefinery Pilot Plant and Bioeconomy Demonstration Initiative, to pilot and scale innovative biobased technologies including green chemical inputs, biomethane and other renewable energy applications. Read more>
The European Commission has launched the Biomethane Mechanism, a voluntary matchmaking platform designed to accelerate the growth of Europe’s biomethane market by connecting buyers, suppliers and investors. Read more>
St1 Biokraft starts supplying bio-LPG to Destination Gotland, which operates four high-speed ferries between Gotland and mainland Sweden. Read more>
Poland’s Agency for Restructuring and Modernisation of Agriculture will this Autumn seek applications from farmers in support of renewable energy investments that improve farm sustainability and reduce operating costs, including biogas. Read more>
Mandatory separate food waste collections to be introduced in Kyrgyzstan from 2027 to obtain biofertilisers, biogas and other bioresources. Read more>
The Ludoil Group has secured €40 million through Italy’s first Green Bond dedicated to a biomethane project, backed by Crédit Agricole Italia, UniCredit and Italy’s export credit agency SACE. Read more>
Chhattisgarh State in central India has approved the CG-CBG Policy 2026 and established the institutional framework for the accelerated development of on-farm biogas, identifying feedstocks to deliver 500,000 tonnes of CBG annually. Read more>
Finland’s Wartsila has sold its Gas Solutions Business to international private equity investor Mutares, rebranded as Nord Gas Solutions. Read more>
Teréga Solutions and Prodeval sign a MoU to accelerate the development of solutions for the recovery of bioCO₂ from anaerobic digestion, focusing on the Greater France region. Read more>
The 3C Biogás SA plant is the first in Argentina to certify carbon credits under the CBA Standard, an initiative promoted by the Cordoba Government to recognise the verifiable reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. Read more>
Denmark’s BioCirc opens the world’s largest biogas-based carbon capture and storage (CCS) plant, the first of five plants leveraging negative emissions from biogas CCS to supports decarbonisation in agriculture, shipping and heavy goods transport. Read more>
California’s Circularity Fuels has claimed the world’s first end-to-end conversion of raw agricultural biogas into sustainable aviation fuel (SAF), following a continuous six-month trial utilising two reactors to transform the biogas into syngas and then SAF. Read more>
Science and tech institutions in Mexico, Dominican Republic and Cuba join forces to develop pathways to turn an invasive variety of sargassum (seaweed) into biogas and briquettes. Read more>
Farmers in the German region (canton) of Schaffhausen get a transport allowance to send their manures and slurries to the nearest biogas plant, to support the optimisation of energy and nutrient recycling. Read more>
Public transport operator Nobina introduces 27 new Scania biogas buses into service on behalf of public transport authority Skånetrafiken in Sweden, capitalising on local production for ‘fuel security’. Read more>
German sugar processor Pfeifer & Langen is futureproofing operations with the construction of an on-site €40 million biogas plant. Read more>
The boss of El Tejar olive oil company in Cordoba, Spain, warns of the risk of collapse if the company is blocked from developing a biogas plant in Baena to treat production residues as regulations prohibit traditional disposal options. Read more>
South Korea’s Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment is launching a 36.6 billion won (~US$27.5 million) programme to localise key technologies for biogas power generation systems, reducing reliance on imported generators and components as the country’s biogas market expands. Read more>
The European Bank of Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) lends €26 million to Next Biogas, a subsidiary of HoSt Group from the Netherlands, for the purchase of a biogas plant in Latvia and its conversion from CHP to biomethane production. Read more>