Sustainable and Innovative European Biogas Environment

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Europe's current dependencies on imports of natural gas (and the willingness to delivery from its supplier states) have proven to be at valuable risk during recent years. When considering the projections of our growing energy demand during the next decades in relation to Europe's natural oil and gas resources it becomes clear that these dependencies will have tremendous pricing effects on our economies in the near future. Decentralized energy production from renewable resources - both, through the usage of biogas as fuel originator and as basic resource for feeding into the available gas grids - hold great and currently underdeveloped potential to reduce these dependencies and further foster Europe's leadership position within this key areas of innovation. The availability of established regional gas grids in connection with new biogas -, biogas cleaning technologies and -methodologies are key elements of combining current infrastructure with new application fields to further improve profitability of current biogas plants. Therefore, the SEBE project aims at a coordinated further development of biogas utilization, technology and transnational competence knowledge center within the CENTRAL EUROPE programme area. Different operating environments (legal, economical and logistical, technical), shortages on qualified and specialized human resources (planning, operation, support and maintenance) as well as several regional factors (e.g. available resources, logistics, or failed biogas plants from past projects) throughout the member states in the CE area form a challenging environment to work in.

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