biogaspartner – a joint initiative.

Market.Development.in.Germany..
Market Development in Germany.
2.1.Market.development.
The German market for the feed-in of biomethane into the grid
is still young. The first two biomethane plants were put into
operation at the end of 2006. In 2007, five more plants were
installed. around 30 plants were connected to the network by
the end of 2009. By the end of 2010, more than 70 plants are
expected to be feeding into the German gas grids with a total
hourly feed-in capacity of 54,000 cubic meters of biomethane.
With the plants which will presumably be installed by the end
of 2010, almost 4.2 billion kilowatt hours of biomethane can be
generated and fed-in. This amount suffices to cover the final
energy demand for heating and hot water of 215,000 fourpeople-households
with a yearly consumption of 20,000 kilo-
Location Upgrade.Process Status Start.of.Operation Biomethane.
Feed-in.
Capacity.[m3 /h]
Alteno Amine Scrubbing Planned 2010 350
Altenstadt/Hessen No Information Planned 2010 700
Altenstadt/Schongau PWS Operating 2009 690
Aiterhofen/Niederbayern PSA Operating 2009 1,000
Angermünde/Schwanendorf PWS Planned 2009/2010 650
Arneburg Amine Scrubbing Planned 2011 1,250
Arnschwang PWS Construction 2010 690
Barsikow No Information Planned 2010 480
Bergheim/Paffendorf No Information Planned 2010 600
Bergheim/Steinheim No Information Planned 2011 300
Berlin-Ruhleben Amine Scrubbing Planned 2010 490
Blaufelden - Emmertsbühl PSA Construction 2010 220
Bliestal No Information Planned 2012 350
Borken / Hessen No Information On Hold 390
Borken / Münsterland No Information Planned 2010 750
Brunne PWS Planned 2009/2010 300
Burgrieden (near Laupheim) PSA Operating 2008 300
Darmstadt-Wixhausen PWS Operating 2008 148
Dorsten PWS Construction 2011 1,300
Drödennindorf Amine Scrubbing Planned 2010 250
Eggertshofen/Freising Amine Scrubbing Planned 2010 220
8 B I o G a s P a r T n E r – a j o I n T I n I T I a T I v E
watt hours of natural gas each. applied as biofuel, 257,000 natural
gas-dedicated vehicles with a mileage of 20,000 kilometers
per year might be supplied with biomethane.
The plants which have already been erected or are currently in
the development or construction stage cover the entire Federal
republic of Germany (Figure page 10). While Mecklenburg-
Western Pomerania is leading in terms of feed-in capacity
(due to the large plant Güstrow) the state of Bavaria currently
exhibits the most stable growth in terms of the number of
projects and is likely to keep this leading role also in the near
future. a strong growth is furthermore expected for the states of
Brandenburg and north rhine-Westphalia until 2012.