1. BIOMETHANE ROADMAP IN ITALY
Steering Group Meeting and General Assembly
Wien, Wednesday 25 February 2015
Lorenzo Maggioni, CIB

2. Agricultural biogas plants
Short presentation
Agricultural biogas plants
> 450 = 370 MW
The CIB - Italian Biogas Consortium, formed in March 2009, has national coverage and aimes to be the reference point in the italian biogas and biomethane sector..
Lorenzo Maggioni Wien February 25th 2015

3. Lorenzo Maggioni ricerca@consorziobiogas.it Wien February 25th 2015
Short presentation
Company Members
Partners
Institutions
Lorenzo Maggioni Wien February 25th 2015

4. Lorenzo Maggioni ricerca@consorziobiogas.it Wien February 25th 2015
CONTENTS
BIOGAS AND BIOMETHANE
IN ITALY
Present situation: biogas and biomethane
Present situation: transport and gas grid
Decree 05 December 2013
Different scenarios
Barriers
Potential
What is in the next future
Lorenzo Maggioni Wien February 25th 2015

5. San Giovanni Persiceto (BO)
PRESENT SITUATION
Biogas and biomethane
Roma
San Giovanni Persiceto (BO)
New upgrading plants
Pinerolo (TO)
Pieve Fissiraga (LO)
Mantova (MN)

6. Transport sector and Natural Gas Grid
PRESENT SITUATION
Transport sector and Natural Gas Grid
The top 10 NGV countries in the world based on total NGVs
Italian Gas Grid infrastructure data:
Primary transport network: 34,000 km;
Distribution: km networks.
Thanks to dr JeffreySeisler
Lorenzo Maggioni Wien February 25th 2015

7. Lorenzo Maggioni ricerca@consorziobiogas.it Wien February 25th 2015
BIOMETHANE IN ITALY
Decree 05 Decembre 2013
Entry into force (art. 9 of the Decree) : 18 december 2013
Duration: upgrading plants that will be in service by 17 december 2018
Lorenzo Maggioni Wien February 25th 2015

8. The new rules will apply to different kinds of plant
BIOMETHANE IN ITALY
Decree 05 Decembre 2013
The new rules will apply to different kinds of plant
NEW UPGRADING PLANTS
(new sistes)
EXISTING BIOGAS PLANTS
(you have to add the upgrading unit)
incentive reduced compared to new plants
Lorenzo Maggioni Wien February 25th 2015

9. Lorenzo Maggioni ricerca@consorziobiogas.it Wien February 25th 2015
BIOMETHANE IN ITALY
Decree 05 Decembre 2013
<The “natural gas grid” includes not only the transport and distribution grids of natural gas, but also other useful systems for the transport of biomethane as dedicated grids, the CNG trailers and distributors (gas station), including the agriculture, also not connected to the networks of transport and distribution of natural gas>.
Lorenzo Maggioni Wien February 25th 2015

10. Lorenzo Maggioni ricerca@consorziobiogas.it Wien February 25th 2015
BIOMETHANE IN ITALY
Decree 05 Decembre 2013
Duration of the incentive: 20 years
Different scenarios depending on:
Final use of biomethane: injected into natural gas grid, used in trasport (highest incentives), used in high efficency cogeneration plants
New upgrading plant (> €) or existing biogas plant (< €)
Size of the upgrading plant (> € if < 500 m3 CH4/h)
Use of by-products (> €)
Only for biomethane for transport, the producer is also involved in the distribution of biomethane, eg gas station, (> €) or not (< €).
Best scenarios:
Injection into natural gas grid:(< 500 m3 CH4/h, use of 100% by-products, single buyer = GSE) 94,12 €/MWh
Used in transport: (value of certificate = 500 euro, use of 100% by-products, producer sell biothane in his own gas station) > 150 €/MWh
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11. Withing 60 days from the last provision
BIOMETHANE IN ITALY
Barriers
Done, 12/02/2015
To do!
Done, 12/02/2015
Done, 12/02/2015
Done, 12/02/2015
Done, January 2015
Withing 60 days from the last provision
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12. POTENTIAL OF BIOMETHANE
BIOMETHANE IN ITALY
Potential
National Energy Strategy, March 2013
POTENTIAL OF BIOMETHANE
<According to some studies, the potential for growth is important in terms of volume - up to one billion cubic meters a year, especially for biomethane obtained from farms, food processing companies and landfills>.
1 billion m3 biomethane / year involves INVESTIMENTS OF 4 BILLION EURO!
A realistic development plan of methane/biomethane within 2020 should include:
doubling service stations to 2000;
Doubling current means of transport consumption of CNG methane (preferably GNL) up to about 2 billions Nm3 by 2020;
Increasing biomethane consumption up to 35% of the total consumption, about Nm3/year.
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13. What‘s in the next future
Other ways to produce biomethane
Liquified Biomethane
1° biomethane tractor (gas)
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14. Thanks for your attention!
Lorenzo Maggioni, PhD
Research & Development
CIB
Consorzio Italiano Biogas e Gassificazione
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