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Denmark Ran on 100% Biogas for a Day, bp Is Leaving the Sector, and What Both Stories Tell Us About Where This Industry Is Heading #15
Tuesday, August 11, 2026 • Duration 30:51
This week on We Are Biogas, two stories are driving the conversation, and they couldn't be more different in tone. Denmark produced 100% of its national gas demand from biogas for the first time in history on a warm summer Saturday. And bp announced it is selling Archaea Energy, the largest landfill methane producer in the US, as it exits the sector entirely. One story is a milestone. The other is a moment of reckoning. This episode covers both in depth, plus ten more headlines from across the global biogas, biomethane, and RNG sector, and this week's exclusive: a deep dive into the methodology problems that may be quietly undermining plant performance and investment decisions across the industry.
In this episode, we cover:
Denmark's domestic biogas production exceeded national gas consumption for a full day on July 4, the first time in history, as steady supply and falling summer demand finally crossed, with Biogas Danmark CEO Lars Kaspersen calling it proof that full coverage is "possible in the long term" while flagging the gap between 18-month build timelines and 3.5-year permitting processes
India approves a $2.5 billion National Circular Bioenergy Plan targeting agricultural residues, urban organic waste, and agro-industrial feedstocks, framed explicitly as a rural development and energy security instrument for a country that imports more than half of its 30 million tonnes of annual LPG consumption
bp announces the sale of Archaea Energy, the largest landfill methane producer in the US, as part of a portfolio rebalancing under new CEO Meg O'Neill citing poor returns on green energy assets; Alexandra digs into the David Hurren LinkedIn thread that broke down why this is not a confidence crisis for biomethane but a conversation about which ownership model is best suited for the next decade of growth
Hawaii becomes the fifth US state to enact a clean fuel standard, with Governor Josh Green signing SB 2999 directing the Hawaii Department of Transportation to set up a low-carbon fuel programme by 2028, with 25.2 bcf of additional RNG capture potential estimated across the state and marine end uses explicitly included as credit-generating pathways
The Nordic Investment Bank commits €24 million in 13-year financing to double Sindal Biogas output in Denmark from 22 to 44 million cubic metres annually, with future CO2 capture infrastructure built into the expansion design
Spain's first AD plant deploys HRS Heat Exchangers thermal energy recovery for digestate pasteurisation, producing 58 GWh of biomethane annually for grid injection while recovering and reusing heat that would otherwise be wasted
Clean Energy Fuels expands its western Canada RNG fueling network in partnership with Tourmaline, adding stations in Grande Prairie and Chilliwack as GFL Environmental and Integrity Waste Solutions expand their natural gas fleet commitments using the Cummins X15N engine
Finnish company Arciplug Oy and Indian firm Infistar Renewables launch Arcistar Bioenergy, a joint venture targeting 150 modular dry anaerobic digestion reactors across India over five years, with 4 to 5 month commissioning timelines and compatibility with over 100 feedstock types
Brazil's Federal University of Rio Grande do Norte launches BioCAL-H2, a free open-access online tool built on ten years of catalytic methane reforming research, allowing farmers, landfill managers, and project developers to simulate biogas-to-hydrogen production potential before committing to investment
New American Biogas Council data reveals over half of US biogas is currently used for electricity generation even as the RNG share has nearly doubled since 2020, offering a detailed picture of a sector in active end-use transition
Exclusive: Mario Alejandro Rosato, founder of Sustainable Technologies, author of two books on biogas plant management, and one of the most rigorous critics of industry measurement practice, on why BMP tests that look reliable often aren't, why the German norm VDI 4630 confuses precision with accuracy, how he started a digester from zero to full capacity in 48 hours, and what cognitive bias has to do with why your digester startup took six months. If you manage a plant, commission lab tests, or make investment decisions based on feedstock yield projections, this one is for you. Full article read-through included.
If you work in renewable gas, waste management, infrastructure investment, agricultural energy, circular economy, climate policy, or carbon markets, this one is for you.
🌍 Explore more stories, insights, and media from across the global biogas industry: https://wearebiogas.com
📩 Want your story told, or have a topic you want us to cover next? Reach out directly: alexandra@wearebiogas.com
A World First in Carbon Removal, Germany Opens a 300 MW Biomethane Auction, and Lagos Turns a Public Toilet Into a Power Plant #14
Thursday, July 30, 2026 • Duration 27:27
This week on We Are Biogas, Norway just issued the world's first verified carbon removal credits from a biogas-based BECCS project. Waga Energy signed a €128 million green loan to accelerate across Europe. Germany opened a 300 MW biomethane auction. A public toilet in Lagos is now powering food stalls. And Brazil turned 40,000 tonnes of supermarket-rejected sweet potatoes into biogas, protein, and alcohol. Thirteen headlines, five continents, and one exclusive article that every market trying to scale biomethane needs to read.
In this episode, we cover:
Germany launches a 300 MW biomethane auction alongside a 475 MW innovation tender, as the country's bioenergy sector simultaneously criticises the draft EEG 2027 for falling short on the capacity commitments needed to protect existing operators
France proposes extending its renewable gas support mechanism to pyrolysis for the first time, widening the definition of supported production pathways in one of Europe's largest gas markets
Waga Energy signs a €128 million, 10-year structured Green Loan arranged with Crédit Agricole CIB, Société Générale, BNP Paribas, and ING Bank to refinance its European WAGABOX portfolio and finance projects under construction in France, Spain, and Italy
Springfield, Missouri becomes the latest US city to seek a private sector partner for a wastewater-to-RNG project, using an asset-light public-private model that keeps municipal capital off the table
Puro.earth certifies the world's first verified CO2 Removal Certificates from a biogas-based BECCS project at Norway's VEAS wastewater treatment plant, developed by Inherit Carbon Solutions with HoopCO2 and Northern Lights JV providing capture, transport, and permanent geological storage beneath the North Sea
Flogas and College Group sign a 26 GWh annual biomethane offtake agreement from an AD facility in Nobber, Co. Meath, delivering an estimated 6,637 tonnes of CO2 savings per year and decarbonising Irish transport
SUEZ confirms a contractor for its £35 million, 50,000-tonne-per-year AD facility at Ellington in Northumberland, a direct downstream consequence of England's mandatory food waste collection mandate, with operations expected by end of 2027
Lagos's "Pee-Po-to-Power" pilot opens a 30-cubic-metre anaerobic biodigester at a Ojota Bus Stop public toilet, converting human waste from 350 daily users into biogas supplied free to nearby women food vendors as a clean cooking alternative to charcoal
US Landfill Gas Hits $14.9B in Investment, Ukraine Plans $51M in New Biomethane Plants, and Pig Slurry Is Powering AI Servers #13
Wednesday, July 15, 2026 • Duration 27:12
This week on We Are Biogas, we're back after another week away — this time at the World Biogas Expo in Birmingham. Alexandra gives you the full run down of those two days at the end of the episode, including the IEA's launch of BioGRAM, a live visit to a CNG Fuels refueling station, the AD & Biogas Industry Awards Gala, and the one line from Simona Amerio's session that hasn't left her head since. But first, fourteen headlines from across the global biogas, biomethane, and RNG sector.
In this episode, we cover:
One year after the One Big Beautiful Bill Act, the 45Z Clean Fuel Production Tax Credit remains largely out of reach for manure-derived RNG producers — the DOE's June GREET update moved things forward on several fronts, but the manure emissions calculations that are make-or-break for dairy and swine projects are still unresolved, and the American Biogas Council is calling for the remaining updates to land
Ukraine announces plans for four new biomethane plants worth over $51 million, as two agribusinesses move to capitalize on parliamentary legislation enabling biomethane exports to Europe and the first commercial gas flows to Germany
The US Department of Energy awards $6.9 million to nine waste-to-energy projects across six states, supporting communities at different stages of planning to develop local waste-to-transportation-fuel solutions from food waste, wastewater sludge, solid waste, and manure
Nordion Energi breaks ground on a liquefied biogas facility at the Port of Gothenburg — Scandinavia's largest port — targeting the maritime sector as a new demand channel for Swedish biogas, with completion expected in early 2027
Elevion Group agrees to acquire Italian biogas specialist BTS Biogas, including 51% stakes in nine biomethane plants in northern Italy, adding approximately 30 million standard cubic metres of annual biomethane capacity to its portfolio once fully operational
Brazil signs its first commercial biomethane injection contract in Santa Catarina, as H2A Bioenergia's ANP-certified swine waste facility enters the regulated market — the reference project for a sector backed by a mandatory blending framework rising from 1% in 2026 to 10% by 2034
The Linden Renewable Energy facility in New Jersey, a $440 million food waste-to-RNG project set to process 1,475 tonnes of organic waste per day and deliver pipeline-quality RNG into Elizabethtown Gas's distribution system, hits a significant safety milestone on its path to full commercial operations
The Time for Delivery Is Now: Ireland, Denmark, India, and a Week That Delivered. #12
Wednesday, July 1, 2026 • Duration 21:00
This week on We Are Biogas, we're back after a week away — and it was worth every minute of the silence. Alexandra spent last week at Biomethane Day Ireland, hosted by Gruppo AB and Nephin Energy in Dublin, and the experience of being in that room among the people physically building Ireland's biomethane sector is what this episode is built around. The field report is live on the platform. The details are in the episode. Stick around for it.
But first — fourteen headlines. Five continents. A head-of-government MOU between Japan and India that puts biogas into the formal architecture of bilateral geopolitical cooperation. Biogenic CO₂ leaving a Danish farm on a truck bound for the bottom of the North Sea. Mumbai planning to turn 350 tonnes of restaurant and market waste into compressed fuel every single day. And Scotland with a documented £10 billion opportunity sitting at 2.5% utilisation, waiting for a national target to unlock it.
This is one of the strongest editions we've published. Here's everything in it.
In this episode, we cover:
Japan and India sign a bilateral MOU to establish a framework for biogas-powered vehicles, targeting 1,000 methane production plants across India — with Suzuki Motor cooperating on implementation in a market where CNG already accounts for over 20% of new vehicle sales
Poland's state development bank BGK commits €25 million to SWEN Capital Partners' pan-European SWIFT 3 biomethane infrastructure fund — Central and Eastern European institutional capital entering the European biomethane buildout
Mumbai signs a concession agreement with Mahanagar Gas Limited to develop a 350-tonne-per-day compressed biogas facility at Mankhurd, drawing on food waste from hotels, vegetable markets, and commercial kitchens across India's largest city
A 75,000-tonne-per-year AD project in Wiltshire receives planning consent, adding to England's growing pipeline of permitted infrastructure as mandatory food waste collection creates feedstock streams that didn't exist before April 2026
BioCirc's Vesthimmerland BECCS facility — the world's largest biogas-integrated carbon capture and storage plant — ships its first truck of captured biogenic CO₂ to the port of Esbjerg for permanent injection beneath the North Sea under Project Greensand, backed by a 650,000-tonne carbon removal agreement with Microsoft
Cow Manure to Jet Fuel, AI Wins a National Prize, and the Week US Dairy Biogas Went Mainstream
Tuesday, June 16, 2026 • Duration 24:16
This week on We Are Biogas, we're doing something a little different. Before the headlines, Alexandra takes you inside Willen Biogas in Enfield, London — her first-ever visit to a full-scale anaerobic digestion facility — alongside Flávio Ascenco of ABEC, who walks her through every stage of the process from intake bay to digestate output. It's the conversation and the site visit that changed the way she sees everything we cover on this show every week. The full video is below.
Willen Biogas processes close to 30,000 tonnes of London's food waste every year — from restaurants, canteens, and local authority collections — converting it into renewable electricity for approximately 4,000 homes, recovered heat used on site, and PAS 110-certified digestate that leaves the facility as a spreading-ready organic fertiliser for farmland. Three outputs. One input. And the input is something every city on earth is producing more of every single year.
Then we get into the headlines — thirteen stories this week spanning five continents, two world firsts, a national AI prize, and data that confirms what the US dairy sector has quietly been building toward for the last five years.
In this episode, we cover:
Mexico's SENER develops a binding Official Mexican Standard to operationalize the country's biomethane market and enable gas grid injection — moving from roadmap to regulatory infrastructure
South Korea invests $27.5 million to localise biogas power generation technology, reducing dependence on imported generators and components as the domestic market expands
Malaysia and South Korea formalize bilateral cooperation on biogas development and carbon neutrality through Korea Environment Corporation and the South Korean Embassy in Kuala Lumpur
The US Department of Energy releases an updated 45ZCF-GREET model, delivering long-awaited regulatory certainty on emissions scoring for the 45Z clean fuel production credit — including RNG producers
Anaergia's SoCal Biomethane facility in Victorville, California becomes the first project to deliver RNG under California's SB 1440 Biomethane Procurement Program, co-digesting up to 104,000 tonnes of organic waste annually and delivering gas directly into Southwest Gas Corporation's distribution system
Gasunie completes a new network connection between Zeeland and Noord-Brabant by repurposing a redundant fossil gas pipeline, expanding Dutch biomethane transport capacity as domestic production grows 14% year-on-year toward a 2 billion cubic metre national target
Kyoto Network deploys the first tranche of its COP30-launched KTAF Fund in Kenya's Kaptagat region, launching the KyoGreen 10,000 Schools Biogas Initiative to replace firewood and charcoal in boarding school kitchens and create livelihoods for 10,000 young social entrepreneurs
Northern Gas Networks and Northumbrian Water publish a clear public account of how biomethane from sewage sludge at Howdon, Wallsend is heating 59,000 homes across Tyneside, with plans to double output over the next five years
Brazil's Better Beef converts 40,000 tonnes per year of retail-rejected sweet potatoes into cattle protein, industrial alcohol, and biogas through a closed-loop processing model, creating three revenue streams from a supply chain inefficiency
France's exclusive: why 2.2 BCM of biomethane injected, a farmer-led market built over a decade, and a support scheme now shifting to competitive tendering makes France both the blueprint and the cautionary tale for every market trying to scale
If you work in renewable gas, waste management, infrastructure investment, agricultural energy, circular economy, climate policy, carbon markets, or you just want to understand where the energy transition is actually happening right now, this one is for you.
🌍 Explore more stories, insights, and media from across the global biogas industry: https://wearebiogas.com
📩 Want your story told, or have a topic you want us to cover next? Reach out directly: alexandra@wearebiogas.com
A pig farm in north-west England is running high-performance AI servers on electricity generated from slurry-fed anaerobic digestion, under Easy Compute's Green Compute model — with claims of up to ten times the revenue of grid export and a payback period reduction from 12 to 15 years down to around four
Anaergia signs a contract to deliver proprietary AD technology and equipment for the Goodness Grown facility in Tongala, Victoria, marking the company's first major reference project in the Australian market
A CABEI and EU-backed study identifies Costa Rica's heavy transport sector, responsible for 37.6% of national emissions, as a primary target for biomethane adoption, outlining a Technological Roadmap running from 2025 to 2040 to validate the fuel across the country's logistics corridors
New American Biogas Council data confirms landfill gas now drives 64% of all US RNG production, with 598 capture systems, nearly $14.9 billion in total investment, and approximately 705 additional landfills still suitable for development representing up to 455 billion cubic feet of untapped annual biogas capacity
North American RNG passes 600 operational facilities as the RNG Coalition marks 15 years — a continent-wide infrastructure network built from a standing start, still compounding
World Biogas Expo 2026 field report: Alexandra breaks down two days in Birmingham, from the IEA's BioGRAM launch and Charlotte Morton OBE's macro frame on global biogas potential, to Cécile Frédéricq's instructive look at France's shift from feed-in tariffs to competitive tendering, a live visit to a CNG Fuels refueling station serving some of the UK's largest logistics fleets, and the AD & Biogas Industry Awards Gala recognizing work from Zambia, Kenya, India, and beyond. Plus the one line from Simona Amerio that captures exactly what We Are Biogas is here to do.
If you work in renewable gas, waste management, infrastructure investment, agricultural energy, circular economy, climate policy, or you just want to understand where the energy transition is actually happening right now, this one is for you.
🌍 Explore more stories, insights, and media from across the global biogas industry: https://wearebiogas.com
📩 Want your story told, or have a topic you want us to cover next? Reach out directly: alexandra@wearebiogas.com
Estonia officially opens the Halinga biomethane plant in Pärnu County — one of the country's largest biomethane facilities — with Infortar's chairman noting that restoring Estonia's dairy herd to 1990s levels could theoretically meet the country's entire gas demand from biogas alone
Archaea Energy and Republic Services celebrate the first RNG plant in their Lightning Renewables joint venture in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with commercial production expected this summer — the opening facility in a partnership that has no intention of stopping at one
Canada's Blenheim, Ontario RNG plant is now fully operational — one of the country's first renewable natural gas facilities, adding to a market building its reference infrastructure plant by plant
The EU's Horizon Europe TITAN project validates a microwave-based process that converts raw biogas directly into hydrogen and solid carbon in a single system — fewer steps, dual output, and a potential negative emissions pathway for small and remote biogas plants
Researchers at Brazil's Federal University of Paraíba release an open-source software tool for calculating the thermophysical and energetic properties of biogas across variable compositions — lowering the barrier to precise project modeling for operators without access to expensive proprietary software
A Chinese Academy of Sciences research team identifies how melanoidins — compounds formed during hydrothermal food waste treatment — accumulate in AD systems and inhibit methane production, opening a pathway to process design changes that recover biogas currently being lost without operators knowing why
Polytechnic University of Madrid researchers propose a decentralised biomethane model that pools biogas production across multiple small livestock farms with shared centralised upgrading infrastructure — making grid injection commercially viable for farm sizes that couldn't justify it individually
Scotland's Green Gas Taskforce publishes a report estimating £10 billion in economic value and 8,000 jobs from scaling biomethane to 19 TWh by 2050 — with the sector currently utilising just 2.5% of available organic farm waste and calling directly on government for a national target
Alexandra's field report from Biomethane Day Ireland — what the room felt like, what Richard Kennedy said that stopped the conversation, what Ireland's biomethane sector looks like from the inside, and why she's already planning to be back next year to measure how far the momentum traveled
Alexandra will also be at the World Biogas Expo in Birmingham on July 8th and 9th. If you're going to be there, reach out — she would love to grab a coffee and talk all things biogas in person.
If you work in renewable gas, waste management, infrastructure investment, agricultural energy, circular economy, climate policy, or you're just someone who wants to understand where the energy transition is actually happening right now — this one is for you.
🌍 Explore more stories, insights, and media from across the global biogas industry: https://wearebiogas.com
📩 Want your story told, or have a topic you want us to cover next? Reach out directly: alexandra@wearebiogas.com
Polska Grupa Biogazowa completes a significant expansion of its Dzierżki biogas facility in Poland — quiet, incremental capacity growth that reflects how Central and Eastern European biogas actually scales
Bahiagás signs a biomethane protocol with CIBiogás and Captar to produce biomethane from agroindustrial residues in the Oeste Baiano region, as Brazil's domestic gas utilities begin treating biomethane as a genuine supply source
Circularity Fuels completes the world's first end-to-end pilot converting raw dairy biogas directly into sustainable aviation fuel — 65% methane, 35% CO₂, no intermediate upgrading step, ASTM D7566 certified jet fuel at the end of it
BiofuelAi, a University of Surrey spinout, wins the UK government's £1 million Manchester Prize for its AI-powered decision support platform that builds digital twins of AD plants — early pilots showed 6–10% revenue improvements and 28% carbon emissions reductions
Generate Upcycle strengthens its engineering and compliance infrastructure ahead of tightening US organics recycling mandates — building the position before the policy bites, not after
New data from the American Biogas Council confirms US dairy biogas capacity has nearly tripled since 2020 — 496 farms now operational, processing manure from approximately 2.5 million cows
A first-of-its-kind RNG facility breaks ground in central Nebraska to convert cattle manure into pipeline-quality natural gas, continuing the story of the US Great Plains as an emerging agricultural RNG geography
If you work in renewable gas, waste management, infrastructure investment, agricultural energy, circular economy, food and beverage, aviation, or climate policy — this one is for you.
🌍 Explore more stories, insights, and media from across the global biogas industry: https://wearebiogas.com
📩 Want your story told, or have a topic you want us to cover next? Reach out directly: alexandra@wearebiogas.com
