Overview of biomethane markets and regulations ... - Green Gas Grids
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France<br />
Status quo- biogas plants <strong>and</strong> <strong>biomethane</strong> plants<br />
France enjoys good conditions for agriculture; nevertheless biogas activities are<br />
comparably moderate <strong>and</strong> the national biogas market is still developing. As <strong>of</strong> 2011<br />
there are about 300 operational biogas plants in France, 71 <strong>of</strong> which are from<br />
l<strong>and</strong>fill sites, 88 from industrial biowaste treatment <strong>and</strong> 74 from sewage plants.<br />
More than 40 biogas plants on farms use agricultural substrates such as manure<br />
<strong>and</strong> energy crops <strong>and</strong> 10 source MSW <strong>and</strong> biowaste as feedstock. Seven centralised<br />
plants (plants processing more than 20.000 tons per annum) use variable<br />
substrates such as sewage sludge, food-processing waste etc.<br />
Location Year <strong>of</strong> commissioning Upgrading technology<br />
Capacity <strong>of</strong> <strong>biomethane</strong><br />
production [Nm³ / h]<br />
Claye Souilly 2009 PSA <strong>and</strong> membrane 100<br />
Lille / Sequedin 2007<br />
Lille / Marquette *<br />
2009<br />
Water scrubber<br />
upgrading biogas from<br />
biowaste AD<br />
700<br />
Water scrubber 100<br />
* (plant closed until 2014 for renovation <strong>of</strong> waste water treatment)<br />
Table 4: Biomethane projects in France (source ADEME)<br />
Today there are three upgrading plants (Table 4), all <strong>of</strong> which supply fuel to the<br />
transport sector. Up to now in France, there has just one <strong>biomethane</strong> plant been<br />
connected to the grid (Lille / Sequedin). Thus, <strong>biomethane</strong> to grid injection is in an<br />
experimental phase at the moment.<br />
Political targets for biogas <strong>and</strong> <strong>biomethane</strong> production<br />
The French NREAP <strong>of</strong> August 2010 provides the framework for political targets on<br />
renewable energy. Regarding energy derived from biogas France aims at producing<br />
more than 555 ktoe in terms <strong>of</strong> heat <strong>and</strong> install at least 625 MW <strong>of</strong> electricity by<br />
2020 [4]. Even not specifically mentioned, <strong>biomethane</strong> is considered to be included<br />
in the goals set for biogas.<br />
Natural gas consumption, suppliers, infrastructure<br />
In 2010, the raw total for natural gas consumption was 565 TWh <strong>and</strong> 511 TWh for<br />
the net balance. Since France has very little domestic natural gas production (less<br />
than 2 %), it imports most <strong>of</strong> the gas requirement from Norway (about 35 %).<br />
Other major suppliers are the Netherl<strong>and</strong> (15.8 %), Russia (15 %) <strong>and</strong> Algeria<br />
(14.5 %). France has an established gas infrastructure <strong>and</strong> an extensive pipeline<br />
network with its neighbours. An overview <strong>of</strong> the French transmission pipeline<br />
system can be seen in Figure 3.<br />
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