biogaspartner – a joint initiative.
biogaspartner – a joint initiative.
biogaspartner – a joint initiative.
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Market.Development.in.Europe.<br />
Market.overview.<br />
The netherlands, sweden and switzerland are the European<br />
countries with the most and longest experience in the upgrade<br />
and feed-in of biogas. The netherlands, for example, feature a<br />
biomethane plant with a feed-in capacity of 630 nm3 /h which<br />
has been operating on a pressure swing adsorption for 20 years,<br />
since 1989.<br />
While sweden owns the largest number of plants upgrading<br />
biogas to biomethane, Germany is leading in feed-in capacity in<br />
comparison to all other European countries. These differences<br />
are partly related to the state of the infrastructure of the public<br />
gas networks in the different countries, but also to the fields of<br />
application best supported by the respective political structures.<br />
Thus, the German market has seen a significant growth in<br />
the last few years, with the first plants, however, having started<br />
operation only in 2006. In recent years, a stable market growth<br />
can also be tracked in countries like austria, for example, where<br />
the high state-guaranteed feed-in tariffs have, similar to the<br />
German situation, resulted in a significant boost.<br />
Substrate..<br />
While in Germany around 75 percent of the overall biogas<br />
production is based on the exclusive fermentation of agricultural<br />
waste, liquid manure, and cultivated renewable primary<br />
products (energy plants), the market in countries like France,<br />
Luxembourg, sweden and switzerland is dominated by gas produced<br />
in landfills managing community and household waste.<br />
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Application.fields...<br />
More than 75 percent of the overall European biomethane<br />
production is applied as biofuel in natural gas dedicated vehicles.<br />
sweden and switzerland in particular are front runners<br />
in this application. The German biomethane trade, however, is<br />
focussed especially on the application of biomethane in combined<br />
heat and power plants. The application of biomethane as<br />
biofuel here only plays a minor role in comparison to the other<br />
European countries.
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