The biogas experience in Skåne - a master view Sept 2011

Biogas is put up as a significant part of a future, more sustainable energy and waste system - in many places and particularly in Skåne, Southern Sweden. This is a blogg capturing the essence of a three-day exercise with 43 master students at the IIIEE, Lund University, partly on campus in Lund and partly on the road visiting various actors in the biogas system.

Biogas in developing countries

Rural areas in developing countries face a multitude of challenges. What can the role of biogas be for them?

Municipalities and biogas

For municipalities biogas becomes an interesting development path. What are opportunities and barriers for this actor in the further development of biogas systems?

Waste management industry and biogas

How does waste mgmt industry view biogas? What opportunities do they see and what are their concerns?

Biogas from the perspective of the farmer

Farmer are key actors in the agricultural system. What is their take on biogas - oppportunities and concerns?

How policymakers support and shold support biogas

Creating incentives for biogas growth could be a good idea for policymakers. First, should they do this - what is the societal rationale? and second, how can policymakers do this?

Biogas as a growth market

What does the biogas market look like? In what segments do we see the growth - now and projected?

Biogas as a way for industry to get rid of organic waste

Biogas holds promise as a clever way to get rid of organic waste. This section looks at how industry that generates organic waste use/could use biogas as an avenue for generating more value from its operations.

Who uses biogas - and for what?

Biogas has a broad variety of potential end-user services. Learn more here!

What do LCA's say about biogas?

Life cycle assessments are our gateway to the world of life cycle thinking. How does biogas come out in these studies?

Biogas tech essentials

How is biogas produced? And cleaned and distributed? The solutions vary considerably in size and tech used.