The world leader in technology would establish new biogas plants in Hungary within a few years

By: Trademagazin Date: 2024. 09. 24. 10:13

Our country’s National Energy and Climate Plan – in line with the objectives of the European Union – assigns a much greater role to biogas than before in order to strengthen energy independence and sustainability. That is why it is important that in the near future several factors can simultaneously give the sector a significant boost at home. The development of the domestic biogas strategy is already underway, and the environment will certainly become more supportive than before, as evidenced by a soon-to-be-launched tender. At the same time, the leading global company in biogas technology, Anaergia, which recently became majority-owned by an international company with Hungarian interests, is also planning new investments in the country.

The European Commission has set a target of 35 billion cubic meters of biomethane production per year by 2030, which is more than five times the capacity currently built in the member countries. This growth expectation is in line with the prognosis for Hungary in the report prepared with the cooperation of the European Biogas Association, in which domestic production of 1 billion cubic meters per year by 2030 is included, but experts consider 3 billion to be achievable by 2050.

The driving force behind the above ambitious endeavor is the reduction of consumer exposure to fluctuating natural gas prices, as well as the continent’s independence from Russian fossil fuels. Regarding the latter, in the case of Hungary, the Commission’s analysis calculates that up to 15% of our country’s gas imports could be replaced with biomethane, while domestic experts believe that 25% can be achieved by ramping up production.

Moreover, increasing the proportion of biogas would not only stabilize the country’s energy mix, but also bring great progress in terms of environmental awareness. Modern plants produce biogas that can be fed into the grid or even used to generate electricity from organic household and food industry waste, as well as raw manure, as well as a soil improvement material with better properties than fertilizer.