biogaspartner – a joint initiative.
biogaspartner – a joint initiative.
biogaspartner – a joint initiative.
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Project:.<strong>biogaspartner</strong>.<br />
Project: <strong>biogaspartner</strong>.<br />
1.1.Project.description..<br />
In collaboration with industry partners spanning the entire<br />
value chain of biomethane, the Deutsche Energie-agentur<br />
GmbH (dena) <strong>–</strong> the German Energy agency <strong>–</strong> has developed the<br />
“<strong>biogaspartner</strong>” project. The aim of this project is to develop the<br />
leading platform for the injection of biogas into the natural gas<br />
network and the utilisation of injected biomethane. stakeholders<br />
along the whole supply chain are joining the project to support<br />
the development of the young market. dena’s role in the<br />
project is to act as a neutral facilitator and to provide a platform<br />
both for the acquisition and preparation of information and<br />
for its distribution both in Germany and abroad. The project’s<br />
market-oriented approach will supplement the efforts of the<br />
German government to establish the injection of biogas into the<br />
natural gas network as a fixed component of the future energy<br />
mix.<br />
The project started as a national <strong>initiative</strong> but by now also<br />
includes the international scope.<br />
Figure: Fields of activity of the Biogas Partnership.<br />
6 B I o G a s P a r T n E r <strong>–</strong> a j o I n T I n I T I a T I v E<br />
Cooperation.creates.added.value.<br />
The injection of biogas into the gas grid offers added value at<br />
many levels: biomass provision, generation, processing, marketing,<br />
transportation, distribution and application in the electricity,<br />
heat and transport sectors. Both technical and economic<br />
optimisation exists at each of these stages in the value chain.<br />
Industry expertise is required to exploit this potential. Dynamic<br />
cooperation between the players will allow not only the state<br />
subsidy mechanisms to function better, but also boost investment<br />
and innovation. dena is therefore offering membership in<br />
the Biogas Partnership as a means of supporting this process.<br />
next to cooperation, acceptance and transparency are the main<br />
fields of acitivity of the Biogas Partnership. The project provides<br />
objectively prepared, valid information on economic, legal,<br />
technical and ecological questions related to the injection of<br />
biogas, making a significant contribution to objective discussion.<br />
The aim of the acceptance field is to communicate the<br />
desirability of the feed-in of biomethane to external stakeholders,<br />
especially in the light of the omnipresent discussions<br />
on the competition for use of crops and the impact of energy<br />
crop cultivation on nature and the environment.<br />
Political.parameters.<br />
The parameters for the injection of biogas in Germany will be<br />
defined as a result of the implementation of the government’s<br />
integrated energy and climate programme, whereby the target<br />
is to exploit a potential of 6 percent (60bn kWh) of today’s natural<br />
gas consumption by the year 2020 and 10 percent (100bn<br />
kWh) by 2030. This objective is defined in an amendment to the<br />
Gas network access ordinance, which came into full effect on<br />
april 12, 2008, and regulates the grid access for both suppliers<br />
and grid operators. This amendment represents a major step<br />
towards a positive market development.<br />
Biomethane can be used not only for standard heating applica-<br />
tions, but also for cogeneration, where the resulting energy is<br />
subsequently fed into the grid to profit from the feed-in tariffs<br />
under the renewable Energy sources act (EEG), and in natural
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