Some figures on the biogas?

[moinsdewatt]

Government unveils ambitious plan for anaerobic digestion

March 29, 2013 New Factory

It is in Morbihan, this Friday, March 29, that Stéphane Le Foll, the Minister of Agriculture, and Delphine Batho, the Minister of Ecology, presented their plan of attack concerning agricultural methanation.

This plan, called "Energy methanisation, nitrogen autonomy", is one of the most ambitious. While the country currently has only 250 anaerobic digestion facilities - of which only 90 are agricultural - the public authorities wish to see this figure increase to 1500, including 1000 agricultural methanizers in 2020. This should represent, according to ministerial figures, an investment two billion euros and 2000 jobs at stake.

To achieve this, the agricultural sector should benefit from several support mechanisms. The first concerns the system for purchasing electricity produced from biogas. The latter will be improved for effluents from livestock, with a special bonus which will be increased up to 40%. Then, to facilitate farmers' procedures, a one-stop shop will be created and connection to the electricity network will be facilitated. Operators will also be able to benefit from guarantees and financial loans from the Public Investment Bank (BPI).


The methanisation process consists of generating methane from organic waste (agricultural waste but also household waste, sludge from sewage treatment plants, etc.). This biogas can then be used to produce heat which will be used to heat buildings, or even electricity. The digestate, rich in nitrogen, can be used as a fertilizer.

In terms of anaerobic digestion, Germany is a benchmark in Europe. It has already installed 7 installations, of which 000 are for farmers. According to a study published by the Xerfi cabinet last July, the methanisation market in France, boosted by a favorable regulatory context, remains one of the most promising, in particular thanks to the potential of agricultural methanisation. However, the study underlines that the projects are still not very profitable: an anaerobic digestion installation would cost 4200 to 1,6 times more expensive in France than in Germany due to the lack of maturity of the sector.

The French government's announcement should, however, put a balm at the heart of the manufacturers present on this market. Namely specialized companies like Naskeo Environment, waste managers like Suez and Veolia but also energy companies like Séchilienne-Sidec and GDF Suez. Hoping that the initiative will not be the next environmental bubble like what happened in photovoltaics.

http://www.usinenouvelle.com/article/le ... le.N194254

[moinsdewatt]

Méthavalor injects its biomethane into the distribution network

April 29, 2013 Enerzine

The Méthavalor biogas production plant, located in the municipality of Morsbach in Moselle, has started to inject biomethane into the natural gas distribution network, which will be used as fuel (CNG) for waste collection vehicles.

In September 2011, the Sydeme commissioned an anaerobic digestion center installed on former land in the Coal Mines of the Lorraine Basin, thus participating in the reclassification of brownfield sites. Methavalor will ultimately make it possible to recycle 30% more of the waste and therefore limit its landfill. It is essentially fermentable also called bio-waste.

Heat, electricity, but above all biomethane are indeed produced from organic waste collected from 386.000 inhabitants distributed in the 293 surrounding municipalities.

"All the large metropolises know these problems of waste which becomes as precious as oil! Ile-de-France is far behind in methanization. I did not think that the site was so big. It is impressive, especially in relation to the techniques used. This opens up interesting prospects, but mainly for inter-municipal authorities "declared Sophie Primas, senator from Yvelines during a visit to the Sydeme site during Sustainable Development Week, on April 3 latest.
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in full: http://www.enerzine.com/12/15667+methav ... tion+.html

With electrical production and heat cogeneration.

"waste that becomes as precious as petroleum", yes, well let's not exaggerate either.

[Christophe]

Interesting topic on anaerobic digestion: monitoring and technical information of the launch of a methanisation unit at the Lycée Agricole d'Obernai by Did67

(divided from here)

[moinsdewatt]

January 18, 2016, call for anaerobic digestion projects in Ile-de-France

Posted by Frédéric DOUARD the December 2 2015

The Ile-de-France Region and the Ile-de-France Regional Directorate of ADEME are launching a second joint call for projects aimed at developing anaerobic digestion. The objective is to support technically and financially new Ile-de-France projects, in order to increase the production of renewable energies on the Ile-de-France territory in line with the objectives of the bill on energy transition.

The Ile-de-France Regional Climate Air Energy Scheme has a strong ambition for the development of biogas. The objective is 11% of regional consumption from renewable energies by 2020; anaerobic digestion biogas will take part for almost a fifth. A forecast carried out by 2025 indicates that the region could host between 38 and 56 units.

The Ile-de-France call for projects - Methanization units 2016

This call for projects must allow the emergence of anaerobic digestion facilities on the farm, territorial, industrial, in a wastewater treatment plant, making it possible to enhance the methanation treatment agronomically and energetically:

- products from agricultural activities,
- bio-waste from economic activities or households,
- bio-waste from industries,
- sludge from urban treatment plants.

The modes of energy recovery from biogas can be combustion, cogeneration, injection into the gas network.
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http://www.bioenergie-promotion.fr/4423 ... -france-2/

[moinsdewatt]

(France) The biogas sector aims 100% renewable gas 2050

By Dominique Pialot | 21/04/2016 La Tribune

The biogas sector is barely emerging, but its players are mobilizing to reach the target of 10% in 2030.

For its first panorama dedicated to gas, the Syndicate of Renewable Energies (SER) does not hesitate to affirm it: it is possible to reach 100% renewable gas in 2050. Today, this biogas is obtained by anaerobic digestion vegetable or organic waste whose origin can be varied: agricultural, industrial, catering, communities, landfills ... It can then be transformed by combustion either into heat or into electricity (this is called co-generation), or further purified to become biomethane. The latter can be injected into the gas network or used as a fuel called "bioGNV".

The main players in the GRDF sector, GRTgaz, SPEGNN (29 local distribution companies representing 3% of volumes) and TIGF (transport and infrastructure) have come together around this report to give visibility to a sector just emerging and which does not enjoy the same reputation as renewable electricity.

200 projects on the waiting list

"Renewable gas makes it possible both to reduce greenhouse gas emissions (those of natural gas and those of waste), to diversify the energy mix, to optimize waste management, and to supply farmers in natural digestates ", recalled Jean-Louis Bal, president of the SER, also evoking" the strong local challenges in terms of jobs and additional income for farmers. "

Nationally, up to 15.000 jobs could be created by the entire biogas sector (injection + fuel) by 2020, according to forecasts by the ATEE (Technical Environment Energy Association) Biogas.

For the time being, 82 GWh were produced in 2015 from anaerobic digestion and injected into the network from 17 sites. Up 160% compared to 2014, but, with 0,02% of consumption, we are still far from the 10% targeted in 2030 by the energy transition law. The multiannual investment programming (PPI) updated and validated by the Higher Energy Council on April 15 confirms these objectives and targets 8 TWh injected by 2023.

The installed capacity today is 279 GWh / year, and 200 new injection projects are on the waiting list, some regions appearing to be much more advanced than others.

Distribution of existing sites
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http://www.latribune.fr/entreprises-fin ... 66047.html

[Christophe]

Uh that we understand each other well, because the article contradicts the title ...

For me 100% renewable gas in 2050? Does that mean 100% of natural gas replaced by biogas?
As an econologist, I obviously say yes and even well done ... but is the potential for organic matter there? Where will he be there? Because it will be necessary to organize the collection of the resource!

For example: if 100% of mowing waste (France produces how many tonnes of domestic lawn per year? Lawn is one of the best materials in methanogenic power) French people were biomethanised + collection of many other organic materials it could be be possible ... but this will be done at the cost of a collection not necessarily easy to set up ... because the resource is very scattered geographically speaking.

But this passage of the article speaks of something else: a% of injection on the network ... electricity ... so not much to do with natural gas ...

Up 160% compared to 2014, but, with 0,02% of consumption, we are still far from the 10% targeted in 2030 by the energy transition law. The multiannual investment programming (PPI) updated and validated by the Higher Energy Council on April 15 confirms these objectives and targets 8 TWh injected by 2023.

So 10% of what? Electricity or natural gas consumption?

[moinsdewatt]

Green gas: France behind its neighbors

Anne Feitz Les Echos 04/07/2016


Despite government support and ambitious targets, France is still far behind its European neighbors in terms of green gas. According to the second observatory carried out by Sia Partners for the France Biomethane think tank, at the end of 2015 there were only 20 units in France producing biomethane, that is to say biogas from a methanization process and then purified to to be able to be injected into the networks.

With 82 gigawatt hours (GWh) injected in 2015 (but 279 GWh of installed annual capacity), France ranks second to last among the 9 European countries studied in the observatory. Germany leads the way, with 10.000 GWh injected for 190 units, followed by the United Kingdom with 2.000 GWh and 51 units.




Several brakes in France

The advance of Germany, where methanization is very developed, is not very surprising. "This country notably produces crops dedicated to the production of biogas, which allows it to use homogeneous raw materials and industrialize its processes," explains Cédric de Saint-Jouan, founder of the Vol-V group and president of France. biomethane. Germany has even already reduced aid to the sector, a sign of maturity.

The level reached by the United Kingdom seems more remarkable. "The British government introduced a guaranteed feed-in tariff for biomethane in 2011, as in France," notes Cédric de Saint-Jouan. “The success of biomethane in this country is explained by a price slightly higher than the French price, but especially by the authorization, there too, of energy crops. "

Despite significant incentives, including a feed-in tariff since 2011 and subsidies from Ademe, biomethane still suffers from several obstacles in France. The projects there are particularly complex, because only the use of waste is authorized for anaerobic digestion. According to the observatory, 67% of units in France use agricultural waste.

Bank reluctance

The main obstacle, however, remains the reluctance of banks to finance projects, mainly linked to the difficulties encountered in the past by many agricultural methanisation installations. "To lift this reluctance, we should extend the guaranteed rate, now scheduled for fifteen years, over a period of twenty years," argues Cédric de Saint-Jouan.

Among the other measures recommended by professionals, the recovery of the digestate (which remains at the end of the process), today considered as waste: they demand in particular its automatic approval for installations using agricultural or food waste, so as to be able to use it as fertilizer or sell it without complex procedures.

Many pending projects

Finally, while fuel gas (CNG) begins to develop in France, they would like CNG produced from biomethane to be considered as a biofuel, and more generally better promoted.

In the meantime, many new projects are on the waiting list: there were 200 at the start of April, according to GRDF, representing an annual production of 5.200 GWh by 2019. According to a count by the gas distributor, 16 projects should enter into service this year and 46 in 2017. The energy transition law of August 2015 sets a target of 10% green gas in the networks in 2030, representing a volume of 30.000 GWh.

http://www.lesechos.fr/industrie-servic ... 012010.php

[Did67]

the lawn is one of the best materials in methanogenic power ...

I hadn't seen it at the time. I correct this factual error: no, no, not the lawns. These are the fats!

Grass clipping is a lot of fleet! And nitrogen, which is not sought after by methanisers ... (as cows having eaten too much clover all at once can "meteorize", a digester that has too much nitrogen can turn badly).

[chatelot16]

when I see everything that is lost around my house I would like to make a methanizer ... not too small on the scale of a house but able to use the manure of the neighboring breeder

problem you need land to do it properly: it would therefore be better to do it on the farmer's land

brobleme following the farmer is against because he is afraid of the administration ... he knows all too well how we have problems as soon as we do something out of the ordinary

to get out of this sad blockage we must find a legal way to separate the methanizer so that the farmer does not have the responsibility ... creation of an independent company? land rental? sale of land?

the problem is therefore no longer technical because we know what works ... the problem is legal with a state that complicates everything, and we have to look for tricks to try to exist

current result the farmers spread their manure anyhow with low efficiency because it is too complicated to make a methanizer

[Christophe]

I hadn't seen it at the time. I correct this factual error: no, no, not the lawns. These are the fats!

Yes there is no more energy than fats and oils see energies-renewable / biogas-methanization-and-power-methanogenic-t2338.html but the lawn is much better than all the manure ...

My remark was about "easily accessible" waste ... (for the average person: it is easier to find grass than grease ...)