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This week on We Are Biogas, we're doing something a little different. Before the headlines, Alexandra takes you inside Willen Biogas in Enfield, London — her first-ever visit to a full-scale anaerobic digestion facility — alongside Flávio Ascenco of ABEC, who walks her through every stage of the process from intake bay to digestate output. It's the conversation and the site visit that changed the way she sees everything we cover on this show every week. The full video is below.

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This week on We Are Biogas, the headlines span five continents, three industry firsts, and every scale of the sector — from a €26 million EBRD-backed biomethane conversion in Latvia to a sewage treatment plant in Seoul that is now producing hydrogen for city buses, to a dairy farm in Jerome, Idaho processing more than 5 million gallons of manure a day into one of North America's largest single-site RNG facilities.

We're also watching Mexico write the regulatory foundations that will finally allow biomethane into its gas grid, industrial manufacturing in Italy sign one of the country's first long-term biomethane supp...

I was supposed to be on a two-week break. Then this week's headlines landed.

Copenhagen Infrastructure Partners drops a €1.7 billion bioenergy fund with a €200 million European Investment Fund anchor. Nature Sustainability publishes a methane leakage study with findings that every wastewater biogas operator needs to read — and not all of them are going to like it. Ireland signs its seventh biomethane grid connection in three years. The Netherlands stacks €150 million in long-term operating subsidies behind a single waste-wood-to-biomethane project. And Budweiser installs a biogas recovery system at its Lancashire brewery and cuts gas consumption by up to 8%.

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This week on We Are Biogas, the headlines span four continents and every scale of the industry. From a 74-tonne biomethane truck hauling sugar to the Port of Santos on fuel made from the same cane it's carrying, to homes across Wrexham being heated by sewage collected from all of North Wales, to Osaka Gas converting used bento boxes into biogas at a municipal sewage plant in Japan.

We're also watching the equipment supply chain consolidate in real time, institutional capital arriving in new markets, and England's mandatory food waste collection rollout delivering 95 tonnes to anaerobic digestion...

This week on We Are Biogas, we're watching the biogas world move in every direction at once — from a novel feedstock certification in the Amazon, to a grid access breakthrough in the Baltics, to a research lab in Washington State quietly tripling what we thought was possible from sewage sludge.

The story this week is scale, speed, and the very specific problem standing between 2,600 operating projects and 17,000 potential ones.

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This week on We Are Biogas, we unpack a defining moment for the global biogas industry — one where the technology is proven, the capital is moving, and the real work is building the systems that make it all last.

From the EU blocking biomethane support mechanisms in two countries in the same week, to India opening its gas grid to compressed biogas for the first time, to a billion-dollar valuation landing in food waste-to-RNG — the floor is being built in real time.

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This week on We Are Biogas, we unpack one of the biggest global weeks yet for biogas, biomethane, RNG, and anaerobic digestion.

From Brazil’s rapid rise as a biomethane powerhouse to Ukraine’s 2035 export strategy, Ireland’s €80 million project launch, and Australia’s growing renewable gas momentum — the industry is moving from ambition to execution.

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The global energy transition is accelerating, but not evenly, and not without friction.

In this episode, we break down the most important developments shaping the biogas, biomethane, and renewable gas sectors right now. From billion-euro policy commitments in Europe to decentralized energy systems scaling in India, and new demand emerging from industries like data centers and heavy transport.

But beyond the headlines, there’s a deeper story unfolding.

Because while technology is advancing and capital is flowing, progress is still being limited by something far less visible: who gets to participate in building wh...

At a moment when global investment, policy momentum, and technological maturity are all accelerating, one question sits at the center of it all:

Why isn’t biogas scaling as fast as it should?

In this deep-dive, Alexandra Arndt unpacks a candid and globally informed conversation with Flávio Ascenco, exploring the gap between ambition and execution, and why closing it could unlock the industry’s full potential almost overnight.

From underperforming plants and repeated operational mistakes to the untapped value sitting in existing infrastructure, this episode goes beyond surface-level optimism and into...

Germany is sounding the alarm, Norway just made history, and in rural Bangladesh, 4,000 families are living proof that biogas can rewrite the rules of energy, agriculture, and human dignity, all at once.

In this episode, Alexandra Arndt breaks down the week's biggest stories across policy, projects, and technology, then reads the We Are Biogas exclusive feature in full: the story of GREIO and the household biogas revolution quietly unfolding across 27 districts of Bangladesh.

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In this debut episode of the We Are Biogas weekly roundup, Alexandra Arndt breaks down a massive week for the global anaerobic digestion and biomethane sectors. As geopolitical tensions in the Strait of Hormuz mirror the energy crises of the 1970s, we look at why biogas is no longer just a "green alternative" but a pillar of national sovereignty.

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