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The €40m Biomethane Capital Grant scheme will provide 20% grants towards the cost of building a new anaerobic digestion plant or upgrading a biogas plant, up to a maximum of €5m.
Anaerobic digestion plants which avail of the €40m capital grant scheme must have their plants built by next year, which may be too tight for most, writes Stephen Robb.
Anaerobic digestion plants that avail of the 20% capital grant will be allowed to export 80% of the biomethane gas under the terms of the new grant scheme.
After the Department of Agriculture’s €40m AD capital grant scheme is spent, the Department of the Environment will introduce a new biomethane support programme from 2026 to 2030.
The 2024 Biomethane Conference will take place in Croke Park on Wednesday 12 June and will focus on the Government’s plans to develop 150 to 200 AD plants and a farmer-centric circular economy.
The long-awaited National Biomethane Strategy contains 25 measures aimed at making it easier and viable to produce vast amounts of renewable biomethane gas from agriculturally fed AD plants.
Developers whose anaerobic digestion plant will be in operation by 2025 are being invited to submit an expression of interest for funding under the new €40m Biomethane Capital Grant Scheme.