Biogas booms in France but stays local

All 73,000 tonnes of household waste produced each year in the Eastern part of the Département of Saône-et-Loire are currently buried underground. The local associations have decided to transform it into energy. Their umbrella organisation, SMET71, wants to build a biomethane facility in Chagny in the Département of Saône-et-Loire (Burgundy, East-Central France). The biomethane will be injected into the gas grid and supply energy as of 2015.

According to the European Biogas Association (EBA), biomethane can be produced from all…