November 6, 2022. IES Biogas, a subsidiary of Snam4Environment, a Snam group company active in the biomethane sector and in the circular economy, has purchased five agricultural biogas plants with 1MWe capacity in Veneto and Friuli-Venezia Giulia. The five plants are located in the provinces of Udine, Pordenone, Venice and Padua.
The goal of the acquisition, whose total value is about 30 million euros, is to convert the five agricultural biogas plants (which currently produce electricity) to biomethane, reaching the production capacity of about 500 Sm3/h each. By valorizing zootechnical waste, agricultural waste and second-harvest crops, the plants will produce more than 22 million Sm3 per year of biomethane when fully operational. Three of the plants will be connected to the national gas grid for direct feed-in of Bio-CNG, while the other two will be equipped with a liquefaction plant for the production of Bio-GNL intended to supply heavy vehicle fleets for freight distribution.
The operation follows the acquisition on 4 October by IES Biogas of four biogas plants for a total of about 4 MWe in Ostellato, in the Ferrara countryside, to convert to biomethane and feed into the grid about 11 million Sm3 per year of biomethane.
