Sligo-based digestion developers Carbon AMS have been named SME of the year at the 2026 RDS Circular Economy Awards.
The award relates to Carbon AMS’s “grass to gas” model, which converts agricultural feedstocks such as silage and farmyard slurry into biomethane for the national gas grid, with organic bio-fertiliser returned to farmland.
The company is currently building Ireland’s first fully agricultural biomethane project in Duleek, Co Meath. The facility is intended to supply decarbonised gas to AstraZeneca and is due to come on stream in late 2026.
Commenting on the award, Richard Kennedy, CEO of Carbon AMS, said: “We are so honoured to have won the RDS SME Circular Economy Award”.
“This is real recognition for our farmer partners as much as for the Carbon AMS team. Our approach to anaerobic digestion delivers a unique win/win balance for all, including rural economies, energy users and the environment”, he said.
Irish agriculture
Kennedy also referred to the potential role of biomethane in Ireland’s energy system.
“Ireland has a Climate Action Plan target of 5.7 TWh of biomethane by 2030, enough to meet about 10% of national gas demand”.
“The country needs 150 to 200 new anaerobic digestion plants to get there. Two are operating today. The ambition is right. Now the delivery pace has to catch up and farm-based biomethane has to be at the heart of it” he concluded.
Carbon sequestration
Carbon AMS says it uses an approach to soil health based on regenerative farming practices to produce what it describes as “Green Gas” that is certified RED compliant.
The company uses proprietary tools to measure and manage soil and grass performance as part of its biomethane production process.
It estimates that, by measuring farm carbon emissions and sequestration, it could achieve 5m tonnes of carbon sequestration by 2030.
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