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We Are Biogas

We Are Biogas

Written by: Alexandra Arndt
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Weekly breakdowns of biogas headlines with additional commentary. Also, get the inside scoops from exclusive interviews we conduct with professionals from around the world making an impact in biogas.

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  • Cross-Border Deals, A 40% Production Breakthrough, and the Week Biogas Made History Three Times

    Cross-Border Deals, A 40% Production Breakthrough, and the Week Biogas Made History Three Times
    Jun 9 2026

    This week on We Are Biogas, the headlines span five continents, three industry firsts, and every scale of the sector — from a €26 million EBRD-backed biomethane conversion in Latvia to a sewage treatment plant in Seoul that is now producing hydrogen for city buses, to a dairy farm in Jerome, Idaho processing more than 5 million gallons of manure a day into one of North America's largest single-site RNG facilities.

    We're also watching Mexico write the regulatory foundations that will finally allow biomethane into its gas grid, industrial manufacturing in Italy sign one of the country's first long-term biomethane supply agreements, and Mitsubishi Heavy Industries verify a technology that could boost biogas output by 40% on existing infrastructure — without any additional feedstock.

    In this episode, we cover:

    • India and Japan open high-level talks on cooperative-led compressed biogas development through dairy cooperatives — routing international expertise through rural agricultural institutions rather than industrial players
    • Mexico develops a roadmap for biomethane grid injection, building the regulatory foundation that transforms domestic organic waste into a networked energy commodity
    • The EBRD approves a €26 million InvestEU-backed loan to HoSt Group's Next Biogas to convert Latvia's Lēdurga plant into one of the Baltic's largest biomethane facilities — 80,070 MWh annually, with biogenic CO₂ capture as a co-product
    • Pure Data Centres Group completes Europe's first large-scale cross-border biomethane deal for a data centre — 9GWh of certified German biomethane transferred to the Irish gas network in a single transaction
    • Fedrigoni Group signs one of Italy's first long-term biomethane supply agreements in manufacturing — covering 40% of its Italian plants' gas requirements and cutting cradle-to-gate emissions by up to 50%
    • Vanguard Renewables breaks ground on a 300-tonne-per-day anaerobic digestion facility in Minnesota, producing 270,000 MMBtu of RNG annually and creating 100 jobs for the region
    • Royal HaskoningDHV deploys Anglian Water's Helea® technology at one of the world's largest wastewater treatment plant upgrades in Brazil — a retrofit model with implications for underutilized digestion infrastructure globally
    • Mitsubishi Heavy Industries achieves verification of a zeolite-based purification system capable of boosting biogas production by up to 40% on existing infrastructure — no additional feedstock required
    • EcoSimplex begins commercial operation of Seoul's first biogas-to-hydrogen station in Magok — processing 4,000 Nm³ of sewage biogas daily into 500kg of hydrogen for buses, police vehicles and fuel-cell cars, with an 85% emissions reduction versus grey hydrogen
    • AURI and Swedish firm BPC Instruments partner to develop biogas market opportunities from agricultural residues at Minnesota's Bio-industrial Innovation Center
    • Clean Energy Fuels starts up the East Valley Cattle RNG plant in Jerome, Idaho — its eighth dairy facility and one of the largest single-site dairies and RNG operations in North America

    Exclusive: We Are Biogas sits down with Lidija Zelić, head of the Serbian Biogas Association, for a conversation that goes well beyond sector development and regulatory progress. This is a story about villages trying to survive, farmers building new futures from their land, women holding rural communities together, and young people being given a reason to stay. Sixteen years of trust built one farm visit, one difficult conversation, and one community at a time. Full article read-through included.

    If you work in renewable gas, waste management, infrastructure investment, agricultural energy, circular economy, or climate policy — this one is for you.

    📩 We Are Biogas subscribers have exclusive access to a 5% discount on the Global NRG Advisory Project Finance Masterclass. Six live modules on how you actually fund a biogas project, led by Chris Negus and Andrew Rice. Cohorts are capped at 15 seats and they are going fast. Use code WEAREBIO at checkout, or DM Chris Negus directly and tell him We Are Biogas sent 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

    🔗 Let’s connect and keep the conversation going:
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrarng/
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    30 mins
  • €1.7 Billion In. A Nature Study Drops a Bombshell. And Cork Just Got Ireland's Biggest Food Waste Plant. # 9

    €1.7 Billion In. A Nature Study Drops a Bombshell. And Cork Just Got Ireland's Biggest Food Waste Plant. # 9
    Jun 3 2026
    I was supposed to be on a two-week break. Then this week's headlines landed.Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners drops a €1.7 billion bioenergy fund with a €200 million European Investment Fund anchor. Nature Sustainability publishes a methane leakage study with findings that every wastewater biogas operator needs to read — and not all of them are going to like it. Ireland signs its seventh biomethane grid connection in three years. The Netherlands stacks €150 million in long-term operating subsidies behind a single waste-wood-to-biomethane project. And Budweiser installs a biogas recovery system at its Lancashire brewery and cuts gas consumption by up to 8%.The break is cancelled. Let's go.In this episode, we cover:Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners launches Advanced Bioenergy Fund II targeting €1.5 billion — anchored by a €200 million European Investment Fund commitment backed by InvestEU and REPowerEUSouth Carolina signs a landfill gas-to-RNG tax credit into law as US federal policy uncertainty pushes biogas support further toward state-level architectureStream BioEnergy signs its seventh biomethane grid connection in three years — this time an €80 million food and garden waste plant in Little Island, Co. CorkThe Netherlands' EemsGas project secures €149.8 million in SDE++ operating subsidies covering 15 years of production — the kind of long-term revenue certainty most markets still can't offerReFuels breaks ground on a new UK biomethane refuelling station on the M4 corridor, targeting 800 trucks a day and forming a dedicated low-carbon freight corridor with its Magor site in South WalesOklahoma State University signs a 10-year RNG partnership with Love's Alternative Energy to power its 27-bus campus transit fleet — a demand-side story the sector doesn't tell often enoughSUEZ breaks ground on a new 50,000 tpa anaerobic digestion plant in Northumberland, explicitly connected to England's mandatory food waste collection mandate that came into force in April 2026Nature Sustainability publishes a US national-scale assessment finding methane leakage rates ranging from 0.4% to 65% at wastewater biogas facilities — with a large fraction of current systems potentially exceeding the net-zero emission thresholdBudweiser's Samlesbury brewery cuts gas consumption by up to 8% after installing a biogas recovery system that captures energy from its own wastewater treatment processItaly's Malya concept vehicle integrates a biomethane range extender into a compact urban EV — positioning biomethane as a solution for range anxiety, not just heavy transportUkraine's Poroshenko-linked agricultural group files plans for a 200,000 tpa biomethane complex in Vinnytsia Oblast, as Ukrainian producers begin shipping gas to GermanyMcDonald's confirms anaerobic digestion is part of how it keeps edible food waste below 1% — and what that gap between US and UK operations tells us about policy-driven feedstock behaviourIndia's REnergy Dynamics wins two compressed biogas contracts from Refex Renewables as India's CBG value chain begins to specialise into distinct rolesExclusive: Alexandra reads through this month's We Are Biogas essay — The Gap Is the Story: What May 2026 Told Us About Where Biogas Is Today. Four gaps. Four places where the distance between what biogas can do and what the conditions currently allow is most visible. And in each case, someone is closing one. The floor-building phase isn't over. It's just become more precise about which section needs laying next."The sector is waiting for itself to close the implementation distance."If you work in renewable gas, waste management, project finance, infrastructure investment, circular economy, agricultural energy, or climate policy — this episode covers a lot of ground and doesn't let you look away.📩 We Are Biogas subscribers get an exclusive 5% discount on the NRG Global Advisory Project Finance Masterclass — six live modules on how you actually fund a biogas project. September cohort, 15 seats, and they are going fast. Use code WEAREBIO at checkout or DM Chris Negus directly and tell him We Are Biogas sent you.We Are Biogas is your weekly breakdown of biogas, biomethane, RNG & anaerobic digestion — from farms and wastewater plants to the policy rooms and capital markets where this industry is being built. New episodes every week. Subscribe to the newsletter at wearebiogas.substack.com🌍 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🔗 Let’s connect and keep the conversation going:https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrarng/
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    31 mins
  • Biogas From Bento Boxes, Sugarcane Trucks & The Methane Nobody's Counting #8

    Biogas From Bento Boxes, Sugarcane Trucks & The Methane Nobody's Counting #8
    May 19 2026

    This week on We Are Biogas, the headlines span four continents and every scale of the industry. From a 74-tonne biomethane truck hauling sugar to the Port of Santos on fuel made from the same cane it's carrying, to homes across Wrexham being heated by sewage collected from all of North Wales, to Osaka Gas converting used bento boxes into biogas at a municipal sewage plant in Japan.

    We're also watching the equipment supply chain consolidate in real time, institutional capital arriving in new markets, and England's mandatory food waste collection rollout delivering 95 tonnes to anaerobic digestion in its first week.

    In this episode, we cover:

    • MOL Group brings Hungary's third biomethane plant online at Szarvas — 7 million cubic metres of annual output, grid-injected, and a blueprint for Central and Eastern European expansion
    • Lithuania restructures domestic biomethane pricing as the sector records 2.4x growth in guarantees of origin year-on-year and joins the European ERGaR cross-border certificate trading hub
    • Burckhardt Compression acquires Fornovo Gas — a 57-year-old Italian biogas compressor specialist — signalling that the industrial supply chain is being priced in ahead of a scaling wave
    • Greenlane Renewables and Panasonic do Brasil formalize local manufacturing of biogas upgrading technology, targeting Brazil's forecast sevenfold output growth by 2035
    • Egypt's first PPP wastewater plant gets a biogas power generation unit — a retrofit model with implications for hundreds of flaring facilities across the African continent
    • Brazil's Biorrota project deploys a nine-axle, 74-tonne biomethane truck on the sugar route to the Port of Santos, fuelled by vinasse from the sugarcane ethanol process
    • Seaweed-derived cobalt hydrochar boosts methane production from antibiotic-contaminated chicken manure by 25% while cutting resistance genes by 65% in a new study from Shenyang Agricultural University
    • Spain's Turn2X plant claims a European first — synthetic methane from green hydrogen and biogenic CO₂ injected directly into the gas distribution network
    • Osaka Gas converts used bioplastic bento containers into biogas via anaerobic digestion, pointing toward sewage treatment facilities as multi-stream organic waste receivers
    • Welsh Water's Wrexham AD facility quietly heats homes across the region using biogas from sewage collected across all of North Wales — and most people had no idea
    • 44,000 households in Cannock Chase recycle 95 tonnes of food waste in week one of England's mandatory collection rollout — all of it going straight to anaerobic digestion

    Exclusive: We Are Biogas sits down with Ben Martin, Founder and Director of Redrock Bioenergy, for a conversation that covers the living biology at the heart of every AD plant, the feedstock insight that doubled gas output from a 25% increase in volume, the structural dysfunction inside Ireland's regulatory architecture, and — the part that changes everything — the methane the entire global industry isn't counting. The emissions avoided from landfills, manure lagoons, and uncovered slurry stores that never appear in the support mechanisms, the carbon accounting, or the public case for biogas. Full article read-through included.

    If you work in renewable gas, waste management, infrastructure investment, circular economy, agricultural energy, or climate policy — this one is for you.

    📩 We Are Biogas subscribers have exclusive access to a 5% discount on the NRG Global Advisory Project Finance Masterclass. Six live modules on how you actually fund a biogas project. Cohorts are capped at 15 seats, and they are going fast. DM Chris Negus and tell him We Are Biogas sent 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

    🔗 Let’s connect and keep the conversation going:
    https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrarng/
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    33 mins
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