Global Biogas News Round-Up | May 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
Infrastructure funds make big buys in America and Europe. Poland moves to introduce biogas auctions, cut red tape for permitting and opens an innovation fund to projects. Microsoft buys 650,000 carbon certificates from Danish biogas producer. Sweden backs biomethane liquefaction development. BNP Paribas backs carbon farming platform from Sistema.bio. Finally, a four-start hotel in France introduces a cogeneration unit powered by biogas.
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Volvo Trucks unveils its latest green fuel models, including biomethane-fuelled engines with improved torque and efficiency. Read more>
EU Parliament emphasises importance of green gas in South Africa on a fact-finding mission to Bio2Watt Energy Holdings biogas plant in Bronkhorstspruit, funded under the bloc’s flagship Global Gateway strategy to make high-quality investments in strategic value chains of clean tech, renewable energy and infrastructure. Read more>
Sweden’s Nordion Energi has begun construction of a bio-LNG production facility at the port of Gothenburg, scheduled to come on line 2027, enabling grid connected biomethane producers to access new markets for liquified biomethane, such as shipping, heavy transport and industry. Read more>
Finnish MP Markku Siponen calls on the next government to create long-term incentives and dismantle unnecessary bureaucracy to unleash the power of biogas, ‘to build an energy-self-sufficient and crisis-resilient Finland’. Read more>
Mobius Renewables – owned by IFM Investors, a global investment firm with assets under management of over US$180 billion – has purchased Air Liquide’s biogas production activities in the United States, France, Norway and Sweden. Read more>
Ameresco and HASI – an investor in sustainable infrastructure – announce the formation of Neogenyx Fuels, a joint venture making it one of the largest producers of RNG in America, with US$300 million investment earmarked to accelerate the growth of advanced biofuels. Read more>
Schroders Greencoat, the renewable infrastructure arm of UK headquartered Schroders Capital, has acquired a full stake in APF Energy, the Netherlands-based biomethane producer with three operational plants and three under construction. Read more>
The famed Royal Palace cabaret in France’s Alsatian region has introduced a cogeneration unit powered by biogas, for heating, air conditioning and hot water for the cabaret, four-star hotel and the spa – with the owner saying he expected “in the near future, all hotels will be equipped with a cogeneration unit such as ours”. Read more>
The European Investment Fund (EIF), part of the European Investment Bank Group, has committed €200 million to Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners’ Advanced Bioenergy Fund II (ABF II), focused on scaling biomethane and advanced bioenergy production across Europe to help advance the energy transition and energy security. Read more>
BioCirc will supply Microsoft with 650,000 carbon removal credits over seven years, from biogenic CO₂ captured at five Danish biogas plants and stored beneath the Danish North Sea through Project Greensand. Read more>
German food wholesaler Transgourmet is to open a publicly accessible fuelling station and convert its logistics fleet to biogas-powered trucks, which will halve the CO2 emissions from deliveries from the Riedstadt facility. Read more>
Organic waste treated through AD could contribute 40% of Mexico’s energy, the president of the National Biogas Council, Guillermo Gómez Herrera told the 6th National Biogas Forum, held at the Mexican Petroleum Institute. Read more>
Students from the Meritorious Autonomous University of Puebla, Mexico won first place in the Hackathon for the Love of Puebla 2026 with a project focused on the use of agro-industrial waste for the generation of biogas and biodiesel. Read more>
The Polish government is opening an innovation fund to back resource-efficient technologies, including biogas, carbon capture for storage, transport and utilisation, and other biotechnologies for energy and climate; the minimum value of projects is PLN 10 million and the maximum funding may reach up to PLN 150 million (US$40m). Read more>
Poland is to cut planning red tape for renewables and boost support for biogas, introducing an auction system of support for biomethane above 1 MW, with a target of ~ 300 million m³ of production per year, favouring development in the farming sector. Read more>
Polmlek Group, one of the three largest dairy companies in Poland, will develop biogas systems to insulate it from volatile fertiliser and energy shocks as ‘the continuity of production is a prerequisite for the safety of the entire chain – from the farmer to the consumer’. Read more>
A hybrid bakery oven powered by both solar and biogas has opened in Sri Lanka, under an initiative from the Incitare International collaboration platform, the Global Rethinking Finance Collaborative (GRFC) and German tech firm Kilinochchi. Read more>
Sweden’s SSAB, a leading global steel and construction company, is to supply low-carbon steel manufactured using biogas to Vattenfall for the construction of a new solar park in Schleswig-Holstein, Germany. Read more>
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency has granted SEK 115 million (US$12m) in Climate Leap support to Karlskoga Energy and Environment for the construction of a biomethane liquefaction plant at its existing biogas facility. Read more>
Development chiefs in Skane, Sweden, convened a meeting of gas network owners, biogas producers and potential biogas users in the business community to optimise biogas production and bridge the supply and demand gap between the north and west of the province. Read more>
A biogas recovery system opens at Budweiser Brewing Group’s Samlesbury brewery in the UK, installed by industrial wastewater treatment firm Global Water & Energy. Read more>
BNP Paribas Asset Management takes a stake in FarmCarbon, a newly established platform from biogas tech company Sistema.bio to target climate finance solutions to scale methane reduction across smallholder farming systems. Read more>