Guidelines (Toolbox) for biogas development:
BiogasAction, led by the European Biogas Association (EBA), has compiled comprehensive tools and guidelines aiming to achieve the project’s ambition of an unbiased and rapid regional development of the European biogas/biomethane sector. At final stage has been achieved:
• Compilation of reports and tools for regional biogas deployment
• Brochure of Europe’s 10 most interesting projects
• Data bank with existing incentives and subsequent development of biogas plants compared to national targets
• Comprehensive guidelines for biogas promotion at regional/local scale with associated institutional-building, tools development and market support
• Interactive database of tools for the development of a biogas project (Toolbox)
An interactive database has been developed, including description and evaluation of general supportive documents, boundary conditions in particular regions and projects, analysis of target audience for particular measures. The data has been processed to provide user-friendly filtering system and data base for online data research. New tools were added though-out the action and, all together, 180 tools have been integrated at the project finalisation.
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Intervention in the nine target regions:
A cornerstone in BiogasAction has been to seek practical ways of overcoming barriers to sustainable biogas utilisation in the nine target countries/regions. This efforts have taken place within the following common themes across the regions: Intervention strategies and institutional-building, strengthening the biogas sector framework, optimizing business models and financing of biogas projects, optimizing biogas production and assistance to specific high-quality biogas project development. The efforts in the regions have been carefully monitored underway and there has been organised exchange between the regions for mutual benefits. Notably, this has happened in relation to the project meetings, where in-depth evaluation of the lessons learned have been organised in form of internal workshops.
Dissemination and Exploitation of results:
BiogasAction entailed a structured and well-coordinated dissemination and communication effort, aiming to reach out to the European biogas community. At the European level BiogasAction has been presented, notably via EBA, the European Biogas Association, and Fedarene, the European Federation of Agencies and Regions for Energy and the Environment, at several EU level events. Along with this, all project partners were involved in building synergies. BiogasAction was also promoted through different platforms, among those the Biorefine Cluster Europe and the Covenant of Mayors. This has been supplemented with various dissemination efforts at the regional level in the nine target regions.
