The companies DAH, BALANCE, biogeen, Loick, NEXOGAS, EnviTec, and Verbio – representing nearly 300 facilities, 800 MW of installed capacity, and 8 TWh of green energy production – have formulated a clear industry recommendation for the 2025–2029 legislative period.

Objective: To secure and expand the contribution of biogas to a domestic, clean, secure, and affordable energy supply.

The Industry Recommendation:

  • Preserve the existing gas grid access provisions under the Gas Network Access Ordinance (GasNZV) to ensure the continued connection of biogas plants to the gas grid. Only then can biogas upgraded to natural gas quality be transported, stored, and used flexibly for both material and energy purposes within the existing infrastructure in a cost-efficient manner.
  • Further develop a long-term, practical, and reliable regulatory framework for biogas production that provides investment certainty through either cross-sectoral or sector-specific expansion pathways (for example, through a green gas quota and an increase in EEG auction volumes). This also includes giving appropriate consideration to the protection of existing investments when implementing EU legislation.
  • Establish a unified, central verification system for European and national sustainability certifications, guarantees of origin, subsidies, and compliance obligations. All relevant data should be collected within a single platform to replace the multitude of existing registries. This would ensure fair competition and facilitate EU-wide trade while avoiding errors, double counting, and excessive administrative costs.
  • Prioritize approval procedures to ensure that all renewable energy projects are accelerated and given preferential treatment in a non-discriminatory manner, both in terms of process organization and approval timelines. This is a key prerequisite for the investments required to strengthen Germany’s domestic renewable energy sector.
  • Remove biomass restrictions on biogas production and marketing that go beyond the sustainability criteria and other requirements set out in the European Renewable Energy Directive. This will enable the highest possible utilization of Germany’s available domestic technical primary energy potential from biogas.

The recommendations were submitted today to members of the German Bundestag and state parliaments, ministries, and industry associations.

We are now looking forward to constructive discussions — and to seeing real progress.

So that biogas remains part of the solution.