After a careful and thorough planning and permit process, Gasum is starting the construction work on its latest biogas plant project in the Swedish community of Götene. The facility will be producing 120 gigawatt hours (GWh) worth of bio-LNG per year from early 2025 onwards. For the company, this initiative marks the beginning of a string of investments into biomethane production in accordance with its new strategy.
The Götene plant will process approximately 400,000 tons of feedstock yearly. It will utilize mainly manure as feedstock from the agriculture sector in the surrounding area. Manure is a feedstock that has the ability to turn biogas from a low-carbon to a carbon-negative fuel. It both lowers the greenhouse gas emissions when used, for example, in cars and trucks but also mitigates emissions generated by traditional treatment of manure, where it is simply spread out onto fields.
In addition to energy, the plant will produce 350,000 tons of high quality environmentally friendly fertilizers, which are returned to the farmers providing the feedstock. Compared to fossil fertilizers, recycled fertilizers contain organic matter which is important in maintaining the growing conditions and weather resistance of farmlands.
Gasum is investing nearly 54 million euros in the Götene facility, of which 15 million has been provided as a grant from the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency’s Klimatklivet investment program.
“We are extremely happy to be proceeding with this project in Götene, because in the last couple of years we have seen interest in biogas intensify in the Nordic countries as well as across the whole of Europe. The Götene biogas plant will be the first step in Gasum’s ambitious plan for increasing the availability of renewable energy to our customers whether they are in the traffic, industry or maritime segment”, said Erik Woode, Head of Project Development & Execution at Gasum.
The Götene plant is the first one in a series of five large scale biomethane plants that Gasum plans to construct in Sweden during the next few years. The other locations will be Borlänge, Kalmar, Sjöbo, and Hörby.
Source: Gasum
