Global Biogas News Round-Up | October 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
Biogas funding, financing and investment forecasts amounting to around €10 billion announced. Spain and Italy continue to be a magnet for investment. Big oil in India weighs in behind biogas with 25 plants in the pipeline. Egypt, Romania and Singapore eye accelerated biogas growth. Mexico set to develop seaweed biogas plant after succesful14 month trial.
Links to top stories
Singapore is establishing a regulatory sandbox of up to 300MW to catalyse biomethane supply chain development and facilitate adoption by key industry players. Read more
Spain’s Qualitas Energy to raise a nearly €4 billion investment fund, to include biogas, carbon and carbon capture, according to documents filed to Spain’s National Securities Market Commission. Read more
Infrastructure funds from California and Canada have joined forces to establish the first cross-border financing facility, developing the first dedicated fund for food waste RNG with an inaugural US$43 million. Read more
The UK’s Arjun Infrastructure Partners has acquired a majority stake in Denmark’s Bigadan, comprising 9 facilities producing 1.3 TWh of biomethane, eyeing expansion in carbon capture use and storage and production of transport fuels. Read more
Romgaz, the majority state-owned natural gas company of Romania, has secured over €2.5 billion EU funding for its decarbonisation plan – incorporating biomethane and carbon capture technologies. Read more
The first biomethane power plant in Minas Gerais, Brazil, has opened through a partnership between ZEG Biogas – São Paulo’s largest biomethane producer – and Bioenergética Aroeira, using organic waste from sugarcane production. Read more
Multinational energy company Eni and the Bioenergy Association for Sustainable Development, affiliated with the Ministry of Environment of Egypt, to map the country’s biogas potential from animal and agricultural waste. Read more
Andalucia’s regional government in Spain is set to take a ‘uniform and certainty’ approach to biogas permitting under its Municipal Action Plan and Biomethane Roadmap, as it looks to realise a pipeline of 71 projects. Read more
Canada’s Greenlane Renewables has filed a patent application for a linear nitrogen rejection unit, which it claims will allow renewable and landfill gas developers to achieve higher methane recovery performance at lower costs. Read more
Ukrainian businesses are ready to invest US$5 billion in biomethane production over the next three to five years if the government helps establish export channels to the EU, the country’s agrifood giant MHP tells Kyiv International Economic Forum. Read more
The city of Raleigh in North Carolina, America, is to power its 70-strong bus fleet with RNG created from treatment of the city’s wastewater. Read more
United European Car Carriers has gained official certification for Scope 3 emissions savings of 2379 tonnes of CO2e in 2024 on vehicle shipments with Ford of Europe using bio-LNG to fuel vessels in its European trading network. Read more
Portugal’s chemicals sector needs to invest €1 billion a year out to 2050 on decarbonisation solutions, including biogases, as required by UN and EU treaties, a study undertaken by global consultancy EY has concluded. Read more
Wallenius Sol will power its vessels using bio-LNG and sell the surplus GHG savings to other shipping companies via Gasum’s FuelEU Maritime pooling service, the firm announced. Read more
Clarke Energy, a Rehlko company, has commissioned its first membrane-based biogas upgrading plant in India, located at a municipal solid waste anaerobic digestion site operated by Srinivas Waste Management Services (SWMS) in Chetpet, Chennai. Read more
Norwegian renewable energy developer Vireo has selected Dutch biogas technology firm Nordsol to deliver a new liquefied biogas production plant in Hardanger, Norway, to produce maritime and road transport fuel from organic aquaculture wastes. Read more
Verdalia Bioenergy has closed a landmark €671 million ($783 million) corporate financing agreement with a consortium of European banks to develop 3 TWh of biomethane capacity across Spain and Italy. Read more
Quintana Roo in Mexico is advancing plans to build a large-scale sargassum biogas plant after a 14-month pilot proved the concept using beach-collected seaweed and wastewater sludge, with January 2026 targeted for construction to start. Read more
Poland’s Neo Biofuel Energy has secured a PLN-74-million (US$ 20m/€ 17m) loan from development banks BGK and PKO BP to build three biogas plants with a total capacity of 3.2 MW. Read more
HSC has agreed the sale of its Hashog Biogas facility in West Zealand, Denmark, to Shell Biogas, formerly Nature Energy, with the existing facility to be closed to make way for a new plant. Read more
Indian Oil joint venture with GPS Renewables raises $94 million from India Bank for 9 biogas projects in Haryana (4), Uttar Pradesh (3), Chhattisgarh (1) and Andhra Pradesh (1). Read more
Mexico’s Elan Energy has been appointed Project Management Consultant for 16 Compressed Biogas projects across India by the Bharat Petroleum Corporation. Read more
