Our country currently has eleven operational biomethane plants producing 455 GWh/year (one in Madrid, six in Catalonia, two in Castile and León, and two in Galicia), some 250 biogas plants with a total production of 8.079 GWh/year, and seven operational solid biomass gasification plants (one in Galicia, one in Aragon, one in Murcia, one in Castile and León, one in Andalusia, and two in Castile-La Mancha), plus two pilot plants—also for gasification—in León and Navarre. This information was gathered with Concha Raso for elconomista.es
Flurry of projects at the Renewable Gas Show in Valladolid
According to sector estimates, in Spain there are about 200 projects in different stages of development, managed by an increasing number of companies, which are betting on renewable gases, a business niche that could reach cruising speed once they are surpassed. the administrative, regulatory, economic and fiscal barriers that are limiting investment in new biomethane production infrastructure, reducing its penetration in the gas sector:
Nortegas is already working on the Granja Conchita livestock farm project (Valladolid) to produce 20 GWh/year of biomethane, a plant in Gálvez (Toledo), and has promoted the development of a plant in Ólvega (Soria) and another in Valencia de Don Juan.
Naturgy announced the construction of its sixth biomethane production plant in Spain, and its first in Andalusia, in Utrera (Seville). In total, the company is managing more than 60 biomethane projects. One of these initiatives is a joint venture between Naturgy and Reganosa , along with Repsol , which will soon develop ten biomethane plants in Galicia with a capacity of 600 GWh/year.
Nedgia , the gas distributor of the Naturgy Group, already has six biomethane plants in operation injecting into its network infrastructure and has an additional portfolio of more than 200 projects in different stages of development.
Nippon Gases , which together with Suma Capital in the joint venture Soluciones Totales de Biometano (STB) is promoting the development of upgrading projects in Spain and already has two projects in Aragon and Cuenca.
Waga Energy , which recently launched the Can Mata biomethane production unit, operated by PreZero to produce 70 GWh of biomethane per year.
Biovic is launching the Galivi project in Lorca (Murcia), which will inject up to 30 GWh of biomethane per year, and the Granollers plant, promoted by the Bioenergía Vallés Oriental ( BioVO ) project, which will produce 22 GWh of biomethane annually. Also included is the Montes de Toledo biomethane plant, which will produce 40 GWh of biomethane annually.
Ence Biogás has a portfolio of 15 biomethane plants under development in Andalusia, Aragon, Catalonia, Navarre, Castile and León, Castile-La Mancha, Murcia and the Basque Country, with the goal of developing 20 biogas plants in the next five years.
Enagás Renovable and Genia Bioenergy are working together on a platform to promote the development by 2030 of at least ten plants with the capacity to produce up to 1 TWh of biomethane per year.
Other companies, such as Verdalia Bioenergy , a Goldman Sachs subsidiary , already have a portfolio of five projects acquired from Aurea Green Gas . Cepsa , for its part, has recently reached an agreement with Kira Ventures for the development of up to 15 biomethane plants. And Redexis has acquired a plant in Almazán (Soria), where it will generate approximately 20 GWh/year of biomethane, and is already working with Inerco to promote the development of ten more plants.
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