Cow Manure to Jet Fuel, AI Wins a National Prize, and the Week US Dairy Biogas Went Mainstream
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Field Report: The Site Turning London’s Rubbish Into Power and Fertiliser. A Look Inside The Process.
By Alexandra Arndt · June 15
I recently visited Willen Biogas in Enfield on the outskirts of London alongside Flávio Ascenco of Agile Biogas, and for the first time, I got to step behind the gates of a working anaerobic digestion site and see the process for myself. The tanks. The intake bay. The CHP unit. The digestate leaving the facility as PAS 110-certified fertiliser ready for farmland. The whole extraordinary, unglamorous, essential system in motion.
Biogas doesn’t need a better argument. It needs more people pulling back the curtain on the operators and the teams turning waste into a resource inside these tanks every single day. This is that.
“We solve three problems with one massive problem — waste.” Flávio Asceco | Director & Co-Founder | ABEC
Policy & Capital
Mexico’s SENER Builds the Technical Framework That Will Open the Biomethane Market
🇲🇽 Mexico | Mexico Business News
Mexico’s energy ministry SENER is developing a full technical and regulatory framework, including a new Official Mexican Standard (NOM), to operationalize the country’s biomethane market and enable grid injection. The work involves coordination across SENER, Semarnat, and SADER alongside major gas network operators, including Naturgy México and Gasoductos y Estaciones del Norte. A NOM is a binding technical standard, the kind of instrument that lets projects actually get permitted, financed, and built. Mexico has the organic waste base. SENER is now building the rules that unlock it.
South Korea Invests $27.5 Million to Localise Biogas Generator Technology
🇰🇷 South Korea | Bioenergy Insight
South Korea’s Ministry of Climate, Energy and Environment is launching a 36.6 billion won programme to localise key technologies for biogas power generation systems, reducing reliance on imported generators and components as the domestic market expands. The funding comprises 26 billion won from the national budget and 10.6 billion won from private sector contributions. This is industrial policy doing what it’s supposed to do using a market expansion moment to build domestic supply chain capability rather than simply importing the technology to run it. South Korea is building a biogas sector that doesn’t depend on foreign infrastructure to function.
Malaysia and South Korea Formalize Biogas and Carbon Neutrality Cooperation
🇲🇾🇰🇷 Malaysia & South Korea | BioEnergy Times
Korea Environment Corporation (K-eco), in collaboration with the South Korean Embassy in Malaysia, has formalized cooperation on biogas development and carbon neutrality between the two countries. Malaysia’s palm oil and agricultural waste base gives it significant feedstock potential. South Korea’s regulatory and technology development pace gives it implementation credibility. Bilateral cooperation at this level is how emerging biogas markets accelerate, not by reinventing infrastructure from scratch, but by borrowing what already works.
DOE Releases Updated 45ZCF-GREET Model, Delivering Long-Awaited Certainty to the US Renewable Fuel Industry
🇺🇸 United States | Biodiesel Magazine
The US Department of Energy released an updated version of the 45ZCF-GREET model on June 12. The tool used to calculate fuel emissions rates for the 45Z clean fuel production credit. The update delivers much-needed regulatory certainty for the renewable fuel sector, including RNG producers, who have been waiting for clear guidance on how their production pathways will be scored. For biogas and biomethane projects, how emissions are calculated determines how credits are valued and how projects are financed. This resolves the ambiguity that was slowing investment decisions.
Project Spotlights
Anaergia’s SoCal Biomethane Facility Makes History as California’s First SB 1440 RNG Delivery
🇺🇸 United States | Business Wire
Anaergia has begun delivering renewable natural gas from its SoCal Biomethane facility in Victorville, California, to Southwest Gas Corporation‘s distribution system, the first RNG delivery under California’s SB 1440 Biomethane Procurement Program. The facility, located at the Victor Valley Wastewater Reclamation Authority, co-digests municipal wastewater solids and diverted organic waste from across Southern California, processing up to 104,000 tonnes annually with potential to cut emissions by up to 31,710 tonnes of CO₂e per year. State procurement policy, utility offtake, and commercial-scale organic waste processing, all operating together in a single project. That’s what proof of concept actually looks like.
PGB Completes Major Expansion at Dzierżki — Poland’s Biogas Sector Quietly Scales
🇵🇱 Poland | CEE Energy News
Polska Grupa Biogazowa has completed a significant expansion of its biogas facility in Dzierżki, adding to PGB’s growing operational footprint across Poland. The pattern here is worth noting: capacity consolidation happening quietly within Central and Eastern European biogas markets, well away from the headline investment announcements. Expansion of existing sites rather than greenfield development is often the most capital-efficient growth pathway available to established operators. In markets where permitting and community acceptance are already in place, it’s also the fastest. PGB is building that way.
Bahiagás Signs Biomethane Protocol Using Agricultural Residues in Western Bahia
🇧🇷 Brasil Movimento Econômico
Bahiagás - Companhia de Gás da Bahia has signed a protocol with CIBiogás - Instituição de Ciência, Tecnologia e Inovação - Biogás e outras Energias Renováveis, Captar Agrobusiness, and partners to produce biomethane from agroindustrial residues in the Oeste Baiano region of Bahia, with an announced investment of R$500,000. The project targets organic waste streams from one of Brazil’s most active agribusiness corridors. Brazil’s biomethane buildout is increasingly happening at the state level, driven by regional gas utilities and local agricultural feedstock density. Bahiagás entering this space signals that the country’s domestic gas distribution network is beginning to treat biomethane as a genuine supply source, not a novelty sitting at the edge of the portfolio.
Tech, Science & Innovation
World First: Circularity Fuels Converts Raw Dairy Biogas Directly Into Jet Fuel
🇺🇸 United States | World Bio Market Insights
Circularity Fuels has announced the successful completion of the world’s first end-to-end pilot converting raw agricultural biogas directly into sustainable aviation fuel. Over six months, a California dairy farm’s manure digester supplied biogas, approximately 65% methane and 35% CO₂, which the pilot system processed into jet fuel meeting ASTM D7566 certification standards using a modular, low-cost system. This eliminates the conventional biomethane upgrading step entirely, converting raw biogas to SAF in a single pathway. Dairy waste to jet fuel, end to end. That’s a first worth paying close attention to.
BiofuelAi Wins the UK Government’s £1 Million Manchester Prize for AI-Driven AD Optimisation
🇬🇧 United Kingdom | Envirotec
BiofuelAi, a University of Surrey spinout based in Guildford, has won the UK government’s flagship Manchester Prize, securing £1 million for its AI-powered decision support platform designed for anaerobic digestion operators. The platform builds a digital twin of biogas plant operations, combining mechanistic modelling, machine learning, and hybrid AI to give operators real-time insight into the biological processes inside their digesters. Early pilots showed revenue improvements of 6–10% and carbon emissions reductions of 28%. By 2030, the company estimates the platform could mitigate 293,000 tonnes of CO₂ equivalent per year across the UK, equivalent to heating 133,000 homes. The biogas sector has long been one of the least data-driven corners of the energy industry. This is what it looks like when that starts to change.
Generate Upcycle Builds Out Engineering and Compliance Infrastructure as Organics Recycling Mandates Tighten
🇺🇸 United States | TipRanks
Generate Upcycle, a private waste-to-energy and organics recycling platform, is strengthening its engineering and compliance infrastructure in direct response to the expanding US organics recycling policy environment. The company’s moves reflect a calculated bet that regulatory pressure on organic waste diversion is not cyclical, it’s structural. As states and municipalities tighten landfill diversion mandates, the companies with the compliance infrastructure already in place are the ones that win the contracts when those mandates bite. Generate Upcycle is building that position now.
Expansion & Trends
US Dairy Biogas Capacity Has Nearly Tripled Since 2020 — and the Pipeline Keeps Growing
🇺🇸 United States | Bioenergy Insight
New data from the American Biogas Council shows that the number of US dairy farms capturing energy from manure has nearly tripled since the end of 2020. There are now 496 dairy farms using anaerobic digestion to convert manure into RNG or electricity, processing manure from approximately 2.5 million cows. The US dairy biogas sector is now large enough to anchor a supply chain, generate policy credibility, and serve as a reference point for markets still in earlier stages. Three times the capacity in five years. The compounding is real.
Nebraska Builds a First-of-Its-Kind Plant to Turn Cattle Manure Into Pipeline-Quality RNG
🇺🇸 United States | Cowboy State Daily
A first-of-its-kind renewable natural gas facility is under construction in central Nebraska, designed to convert cattle manure into pipeline-quality natural gas. Nebraska sits at the intersection of two structural advantages: one of the largest cattle industries in the United States, and proximity to gas pipeline infrastructure that can move product to market. The project adds to a growing picture of the US Great Plains as a significant emerging geography for agricultural RNG, following last week’s East Valley Cattle story out of Idaho. The feedstock has always been there. The infrastructure to monetize it is catching up.
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