Global Biogas News Round-Up | May 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
European demand for biomethane to replace Russian gas is driving a rapid scale-up on the continent, notably in Italy and Spain, with Ukrainian gas coming on-line too. Meanwhile demand also growing on the transport side, for maritime shipping and SAF production, while Volvo report 25% growth in demand for gas trucks. A poll of US voters overwhelmingly backs funding for biogas. Finally, growth in the Brazil and India markets continues to accelerate.
Links to top stories
TotalEnergies has signed a sale and purchase agreement with HitecVision, a Norwegian investment company specialising in energy, for the sale of 50% of Polska Grupa Biogazowa for US$212 million. Find out more.
Opal Fuels enters joint venture with Republic Services’ offshoot to produce biomethane at a landfill in North Carolina, America, to replace an existing CHP facility. Find out more.
Ukrainian agribusiness Hals Agro starts injecting biomethane into the gas grid and plans to begin exporting biomethane to the EU and double production to 6mcm/year (million cubic metres) by the end of the year. Find out more.
St1 and JV subsidiary St1 Biokraft complete the first delivery of Swedish-produced liquefied biomethane to the Port of Gothenburg, which also aims to develop a Biomethane liquefaction to become Scandinavia’s primary bunkering hub for alternative maritime fuels. Find out more.
The Generalitat of the Valenciana Community (an autonomous region of southern Spain) is preparing regulatory changes to accelerate the deployment of biogas, ‘an axis of energy policy’. Find out more.
A new poll released by the American Biogas Council shows 3 out of 4 voters support increasing government investment for US biogas production. Find out more.
A dairy farm in Adinkerke, Belgium, has commissioned a cryogenic upgrading plant, to produce bio-LNG and liquid CO2, supported by the Horizon Europe programme to pilot innovative and cost-effective solutions for biomethane production. Find out more.
Kerala State Government in India has awarded ₹6.01 crore (~US$8m) of funding for the development and promotion of biogas plants. Find out more.
Naturgy signs agreement with Spain’s natural gas and electricity distributor ID Energy Group to develop at least 20 biomethane projects, an expected investment of more than €500m ($564.2m). Find out more
France’s leading gas distribution company GRDF has launched an innovation prize for technologies that speed up the biomethanation process – with €300,000 worth of funding available to the winners. Find out more.
Egypt and EU consolidate projects to enhance food security, including biogas projects. Find out more.
The German federal state of Baden-Württemberg has launched Future Biogas Plus, a new funding programme to boost the use of manures and support biogas plants to modernise. Find out more.
Elkhart County in Indiana, America, to partner with Northern Biogas on landfill gas development, forecasting revenues of up to $120m over the life of the project. Find out more
Gas Malayasia launches first central injection site for biomethane, aligned to a raft of policy goals supportive of green gas expansion. Find out more.
Anaergia and Capwatt sign $7.3-million contract for a biogas plant to treat agro-industrial waste in central Italy, the first of nine the two companies plan to develop. Find out more.
As it celebrates its 20th anniversary, GRTGaz – one of the main natural gas transmission system operators in France – rebrands as NaTran and sets ambitious biomethane targets. Find out more.
Wartsilla Gas Solutions to build two biogas plants for the delivery of bioLNG for Suomen Lantakaasu Oy, a joint venture between the biomethane company St1 Biokraft and dairy and food company, Valio. Find out more.
Veolia country chief for Colombia says capturing biogas from its wastewater and waste management centres could meet 5% of the country’s gas demand. Find out more
As part of its drive to achieve food and energy security, the regional government of Pamekasan, Indonesia, has backed the building of 10 village-based biogas plants. Find out more.
Greening, Atlantica and Edison Next forge a mega-alliance for the development of a portfolio of 17 biomethane projects in Spain. Find out more.
Volvo reports a 25% year on year increase in the sale of gas-powered trucks, with notable growth in the Swedish, Norwegian, Dutch, Spanish and British markets. Find out more.
Scapigliato municipality commissions Waga Energy to capture renewable natural gas (RNG) at its Rosignano Marittimo landfill site in Tuscany, Italy. Find out more.
French farm collective ABH and Swiss start-up neustark collaborate to capture and liquefy bioCO2 from biomethane upgrading for permanent storage in concrete. Find out more.
Germany’s EnviTec starts construction on the first biogas plant in Pärnu County, the fourth facility built on behalf of Estonia’s dairy giant Halinga OÜ to produce green gas from manure and biological waste. Find out more.
JBS, one of the world’s largest food companies, starts powering two of its beef production facilities in Brazil with biogas. Find out more.
In the Netherlands, Attero expands its nutrient recycling portfolio with the purchase of Greenferm AD plant – marking the company’s first engagement with the manure market. Find out more.
Japan’s Sojitz Corporation becomes an investment partner in the JV between GPS Renewables and the Indian Oil Corporation to have 30 operational biomethane plants by 2027. Find out more.
US Democrats re-introduce the Agriculture Resilience Act to boost rural resilience and adoption of biogas projects for climate, energy and food security. Find out more.