摘要 : At the World Biogas Summit in Birmingham, United Kingdom in June 2022, organized by the World Biogas Association, the message was clear when it came to the importance of biogas as a replacement fuel for natural gas in the European... 展开 At the World Biogas Summit in Birmingham, United Kingdom in June 2022, organized by the World Biogas Association, the message was clear when it came to the importance of biogas as a replacement fuel for natural gas in the European Union (EU) following Russia's invasion of Ukraine in February 2022. "EU consumption of natural gas is approximately 13.9 billion MMBTU/year, or the equivalent energy content of almost 100 billion gallons of petroleum," notes a summary of the discussion at the Summit by Kyle Jeremiah, Communications & Community Engagement manager at Energy Vision. "Of this total, nearly half (6.5 billion MMBTU) was coming from Russia, leaving a huge supply gap to overcome in the short to medium term. Since the invasion of Ukraine in February, the EU has scrambled to develop plans to overcome this deficit. One goal under the REPowerEU plan is to boost domestic biomethane production to 1.3 billion MMBTU/year by 2030 by generating fuel from a significant portion of the 2.3 billion tons of organic wastes in Europe via anaerobic digestion - a 10-fold increase from current production of renewable natural gas (RNG)." 收起