Schmack starts feeding purified biogas into the natural gas grid

Today sees the start of operations at the Pliening biogas plant, one of the largest of its kind in Germany. Following the official approval by inspectors, the facility located near Munich will start feeding refined biogas into the German natural gas grid on an industrial scale.

Ulrich Schmack, member of the Managing Board of Schmack Biogas AG, earlier provoked controversy in Germany when he said that locally produced biogas could substitute all Russian natural gas imports by 2030. He said so as a high representative for renewable energies to the German government (earlier post).

The Pliening project’s great strategic importance derives from the fact that it represents the first-ever industrial facility capable of refining biogas to natural gas standards within economic parameters. In contrast to normal biogas, which usually has a methane content between 40 and 60 percent, the purified and refined biogas has a methane content of 96 percent, thereby meeting natural gas standards.

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