Naturgy to prepare Catalan biomethane plant for gas injection in 2023

Spanish utility Naturgy Energy Group SA (BME:NTGY) said that it will adapt an existing biomethane plant installed at a livestock farm in Catalonia to be able to inject the resulting gas into its gas distribution network in 2023.

The power and gas supplier will invest EUR 1.5 million (USD 1.51m) to transform the facility at the Porgaporcs farm in the town of Vila-sana, and expects to start injecting some 11.8 GWh of biomethane per year as of next summer.

Naturgy, through its natural gas distribution unit Nedgia, operates over 55.000 kilometres (34,175 miles) of pipes across Spain. The company has set the target to have these pipes carry only renewable gases, including hydrogen, in 2050.

Once the work is done, the Vila-sana biomethane plant will be Naturgy’s third such facility in Spain and the second in the Catalonia region.

The Porgaporcs farm had problems with excessive pig slurry production before a group of companies, Naturgy among them, installed a biomethane demonstration plant there as part of EU-backed LIFE Methamorphosis project. In 2019, Naturgy tested the plant’s biomethane in gas vehicles and, a year later, shipped some to Zaragoza for use in urban transport, the group said.

(EUR 1.0 = USD 1.005)

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