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 operatorsFrance 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 marketsWaga 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 ItalySpringfield, 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 tablePuro.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 SeaFlogas 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 transportSUEZ 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 2027Lagos'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 charcoalGasunie 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 targetKyoto 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 entrepreneursNorthern 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 yearsBrazil'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 inefficiencyFrance'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 scaleIf 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 🔗 Let’s connect and keep the conversation going: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexandrarng/
