Scandinavian Biogas' SEK760m investment (about €68m) will have a production capacity of 120GWh, catering to the transport sector (maritime & heavy overland).
The facility will be erected by the Portuguese Efacec and the Swedish Multibygg in Mönsterås in southeastern Sweden. The Swedish arm of Wärtsilä will provide the gas upgrade and liquefaction technology.
Local farmers initiated the manure-fed biogas project in Mönsterås in 2016, with Scandinavian Biogas getting involved two years ago. The parties formed a jointly-owned company responsible for designing, building, and managing the planned biogas plant.
The Swedish Environmental Protection Agency's Climate Leap Initiative granted the project SEK154m (€13.8m) in economic support in 2021.
"We have worked for many years to find a sustainable solution for our operations as the production of manure has become a limitation for us. The collaboration with Scandinavian Biogas brings us a solution that will manage the normal methane emissions, while simultaneously lowering the carbon dioxide emissions in the transport sector. There will be considerable environmental benefits from the local production of food, when taking the whole cycle into consideration," Olof Boson, farmer and Board Chairman of Mönsterås Biogas, said.
Matti Vikkula, CEO of Scandinavian Biogas, also underscored, "The biogas project in Mönsterås will be the first in line of the projects that we will develop in collaboration with local farmers. We believe that local ownership is important, to make sure that parts of the future revenues also remain local. The benefits of liquefied biogas with manure as feedstock are obvious, and enable a green transition for locally produced food products as well as for heavy transports. This is another important step for us at Scandinavian Biogas towards our long-term vision of a total production capacity of 3.0TWh by the year 2030."
"It feels good to finally have everything in order and that we have received green light to start the project. The farmers need this biogas plant in order to be able to further develop their operations and our customers in Europe are in great need of fossile-free gas," summed Michael Wallis Olausson, Chief Growth Officer at Scandinavian Biogas.
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