European Parliament’s Committee on Environment excludes biogas and biomethane from its Opinion on the Net Zero Industry Act

In Belgium, the European Parliament’s Committee on Environment (ENVI) adopted its Opinion on the Net Zero Industry Act (NZIA) on Wednesday, a milestone legislation to foster EU-based manufacturing of clean technologies tabled last March by the European Commission. The European Biogas Association is deeply concerned by the ENVI Committee’s decision to exclude “sustainable biogas and biomethane technologies” from the scope of the Act.  

Such deletion is contrary to the strategic role of biogas and biomethane in a sustainable, secure and resilient energy mix for the coming years and decades, as recognized by the European Commission in the REPowerEU Plan. Biogas and biomethane technologies do meet the requirements for “strategic net-zero technologies” based on the Commission’s proposal.