Critical Issues and Opportunities for Producing Biomethane in Italy

Murano, Roberto; Maisano, Natascia; Selvaggi, Roberta; Pappalardo, Gioacchino; Pecorino, Biagio

doi:10.3390/en14092431

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“…In Italy, biofuel plantation, particularly biogas, boosts farmers economies and is suitable sustainable agricultural production (Bortoluzzi et al, 2014). In its southern part, Italy has a prominent biogas potential and lands that are ideal for producing biomethane (Murano et al, 2021), especially the existence of a biofuel refinery in Milan that belongs to IM Biofuel Italy Srl. Therefore, the threat to the domestic biofuel cycle could cost a socioeconomic issue.…”

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Behind the Cancellation of Green Refinery Cooperation Between Pertamina and Eni

Rachman

Yani

Montratama

2021

JISEA

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Pertamina and Eni faced double strike problems. The Italian government did not grant the license for building Indonesian crude palm oil (CPO) based green finery to Eni-Pertamina as most Indonesian CPO producers do not possess RSPO certificates and the EU restricts the use of CPO. The policies resulted in opportunities loss for Pertamina and Eni in 2019. This qualitative paper examined the logical reasons behind the Italian government decision by two levels of analysis, domestic and regional locus. The finding shows that domestically, political circumstances among parties and figures, other than CPO commodities farmers, played a significant role in the cancellation. The historical instability in Italy domestic political situation also brought it closer to revocation. On another level, the ups and downs of Italy-the EU relations before and during Conte I and Conte II government were a regional reason behind it.

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Section: Discussion and Findingsmentioning

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Behind the Cancellation of Green Refinery Cooperation Between Pertamina and Eni

Rachman

Yani

Montratama

2021

JISEA

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“…The biogas sector in Italy developed dynamically in 2008-2012, thanks to the feed-in tariff system (Murano et al, 2021). At that time, they were the highest in the European Union in terms of support offered to small biogas plants using slurry and energy crops.…”

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The essence of the potential of the agricultural biogas market in Poland – a case study of a biogas plant project

Brelik¹,

Lewicki²,

Bera³

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EiS

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In recent years, the development of renewable energy sources has become one of the key demands in the European Union's policy. In Poland, the idea emerged that the energy potential of domestic agriculture may be an opportunity for broader use of the available agricultural biomass. Given that agricultural biogas has long been seen as one of the most promising directions for energy transition, the goal of the article was to assess the potential of the agricultural biogas market in Poland. The research methodology was based on statistical measures related to analysing the structure and changes over time in individual years. The structure analysis was carried out for selected Polish provinces, for which empirical distributions were built and selected descriptive parameters were calculated. A similar study was made in relation to selected EU countries. In addition, according to the National Action Plan for Renewable Energy, at least one agricultural biogas plant should be established in each Polish municipality. On this basis, the article assesses the ecological effect of the project on agricultural biogas in Marcinkowice, in the Zachodniopomorskie Voivodeship. The presented simulations allowed us to conclude that an agricultural biogas plant can be an ecological potential in the form of reducing the consumption of fossil fuels by reducing emissions of pollutants and greenhouse gases into the atmosphere while reducing fossil fuel consumption. It was important for the practice to confirm that investing in renewable energy sources, including the use of biogas, is part of the goals and directions of development related to the sustainable management of environmental resources and the development of renewable energy sources.

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“…In Italy, 2.5 billion m 3 of biogas is produced in nearly 1600 biogas plants, which use waste and side products from the agri-food sector as substrates [55]. The oldest biogas plants in Italy are high power (over 5 MW).…”

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Energy Production from Biodegradable Waste as an Example of the Circular Economy

Szyba

Mikulik

2022

Energies

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A growing population, technological progress and economic development result in a constant increase in energy demand. Energy is mostly obtained from fossil energy resources such as coal, natural gas, and crude oil. Burning them leads to air pollution with greenhouse gases (CO2, CH4, NH3 and N2O) and dust (PM2.5 and PM10). They are recognized as the cause of global warming and air pollution. Wind, water, solar and biomass energy are used to eliminate harmful emissions. The latter may come from special plant crops or from biodegradable waste from farming, animal husbandry, the agrifood industry and households. These wastes are transformed into biogas in biogas plants, the basic ingredient of which is methane. Most often, biogas is burned in a cogeneration process, providing electricity and heat. After purification of admixtures, it can be injected into the high-methane gas network or converted into hydrogen in the steam reforming process. In this way, environmentally harmful waste becomes a raw material for energy production, which is an example of a circular economy. The article discusses the functioning of biogas plants in selected EU countries. The current biogas production in Poland was assessed and compared with the production potential of dairy farms. The aim of this article was to show that the production of biogas reduces the emission of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere and the electricity produced from it is not burdened with the cost of purchasing CO2 emission allowances applicable in the EU.

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Critical Issues and Opportunities for Producing Biomethane in Italy

Cited by 15 publications

References 26 publications

Behind the Cancellation of Green Refinery Cooperation Between Pertamina and Eni

Behind the Cancellation of Green Refinery Cooperation Between Pertamina and Eni

The essence of the potential of the agricultural biogas market in Poland – a case study of a biogas plant project

Energy Production from Biodegradable Waste as an Example of the Circular Economy

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