Biowaste to Biogas

Significance of waste digestion in developing countries
economic and organisational conditions, unless favourable
framework conditions, e.g. sufficient guarantees,
incentives, feed-in tariffs, are provided by local governments.
To tackle these challenges, investors and
operators therefore need sufficient revenues and price
certainties as a basis for their commitment.
Some extra efforts therefore appear necessary and,
since waste management is a cross-cutting task, a set
of political, institutional, social, financial and technical
conditions must be met if biowaste-to-biogas projects
are to be successfully implemented. Countries or local
and regional authorities that successfully provide such
favourable framework conditions e.g. by implementing
(national) strategies, providing renewable energy
incentives, offering long-term contracts and ensuring
price certainty for the energy generated, experience
substantial increases in investments in biogas production
from source-separated biowaste.
In that regard, private sector participation is often a key
driver in any project that initiates a sector change using
new or sophisticated technologies. Business participation
is valuable in mobilising investment and bringing
in the operational experience needed to provide efficient
services. For example, private sector players can
achieve improved service efficiency and thereby reduce
unit costs. A necessary condition when involving private
stakeholders is to guarantee that enterprises can
recover all the legitimate costs they incur (and profits
they make) when financing, setting up and operating
services. Contracting with the private sector therefore
The German Government, and its relevant ministries are providing
a number of funding and financing tools for German enterprises
that intend to jumpstart cooperation with local partners
in developing countries and emerging economies, with the
aim of developing and implementing a biogas project. Amongst
them are programmes by the Federal Ministry for Economic
Cooperation and Development (BMZ) – http://www.bmz.de/
en/index.html), the Federal Ministry for Economic Affairs and
Energy (BMWi – https://www.bmwi.de/Navigation/EN/Home/
home.html), and the Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature
Conservation, Building and Nuclear Safety (BMU – https://
www.bmu.de/en/). As an example, through the develoPPP.de
programme, BMZ provides companies investing in developing
and emerging countries with financial and, if required, professional
support. Since 2008, the International Climate Initiative
(IKI) of BMU has been financing climate and biodiversity projects
in developing and newly industrialised countries, as well
as in countries in transition. DEG as a subsidiary of KfW Group
provides financing and consultancy to private companies investing
in developing and emerging countries. Furthermore, in
order to boost climate-friendly technology, DEG (Deutsche Investitions-
und Entwicklungsgesellschaft), a daughter of KfW
Development Bank, is running the programme “Climate partnerships
with the private sector” on behalf of BMU, which aims
at mobilising players from the private sector for climate protection
in developing countries and emerging economies, with a
focus on the promotion of technology and knowledge transfer to
support the development of a climate-friendly economy.
depends on having a reliable understanding of the full
costs involved in privately delivered services ,as well as
the capacity to cover these costs from recurrent revenue
streams. Setting clear mandates for the public and private
sectors and having the appropriate skills in place
on both sides are key.
Animals often have
direct access to biowaste
collection in developing
countries
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