About VIDA bioenergy |

Originally started by VTTI in 2021, we have been developing, building and acquiring biomethane plants across Europe. We have a background in energy, the energy transition and developing, building and operating world class energy infrastructure assets globally.

In January 2025 the biomethane business was rebranded as VIDA bioenergy and set up to run independently with its own leadership team focused on delivering biomethane production across Europe.

VIDA bioenergy is fully owned by VTTI, which has been an industry leader in energy infrastructure for over 18 years. VTTI has IFM Investors, Vitol and ADNOC as shareholders. Our unique structure allows us to operate with the speed and agility required to accelerate the energy transition whilst also maintaining world class safety, governance and operational capability with strong financial backing.

What is biomethane?

Biomethane is a renewable energy generated from the anaerobic digestion (AD) of organic material. Biomethane, sometimes referred to as Renewable Natural Gas (RNG) or “green gas,” is a direct substitute for conventional natural gas (a fossil fuel) and can be injected straight into existing gas pipelines and used in existing boilers, as it is chemically identical to natural gas.

With these qualities, biomethane offers multiple benefits. There are already several thousand biomethane production plants across Europe that have been operating for decades. Biomethane is one of the lowest cost sustainable fuels that produces reliable, baseload energy 24 hours per day, 7 days per week, 365 days per year, utilising locally sourced feedstock that goes into a nearby production facility. This approach provides energy security using home grown gas and providing high skilled jobs often in agricultural and rural locations.

How is biomethane produced?

Biomethane facilities use raw materials, or ‘feedstocks’, that are then broken down by bacteria that convert organic matter into biomethane through anaerobic digestion (AD). AD is a type of fermentation which uses naturally occurring bacteria to turn organic material into biogas, which is a mixture of approximately 55% methane and 45% carbon dioxide (CO₂). Common feedstocks include animal manure, crop waste, waste from the food industry and sequential crops (crops farmers grow as part of good agricultural practice in rotation with food crops, used as natural pest and weed control and to sustain soil health leading to higher yields) . The process gives a second life to everything from animal manure to potato peels, to coconut shells, to grape skins left over from wine production.

Once biogas is produced, it can be upgraded to biomethane by separating out the CO2 and other minor impurities to leave methane and used directly in place of natural gas to heat homes, generate electricity and power transport.

Since the organic material used CO2from the atmosphere to grow, the CO2 is biogenic, meaning it is part of the circular CO2cycle, i.e. any CO2 released then gets reused by growing plants and goes back around the cycle again. However, the CO2 can be captured and used to displace fossil CO2 in a number of food and industrial processes. It can even be sequestered underground in permanent geological stores which means biomethane is not just net zero, but is also reducing the existing CO2 in the atmosphere.

The undigested residual biomass (‘digestate’) produced by this process is an organic fertiliser that can replace synthetic fossil-fuel based fertilisers. Because they are packed with carbon and minerals, these organic fertilisers are ideal for improving soil health in a natural way which can increase yields of food crops. Farmers and governments are increasingly becoming more aware of the benefits of digestate as a fertiliser and the positive impact it can have on increasing the carbon in the soil which can increase the fertility and productivity of our farmland.

Why now?

Biogas and biomethane plants have been in existence for decades and there are several thousand in Europe already. Whilst great progress has been made with Wind and Solar to decarbonise electrification, these are still subject to intermittency of supply and currently we still require significant use of gas to provide back-up power and heat our homes. Biomethane allows us to decarbonise utilising the existing gas network and also reduces reliance on imported gas, providing energy security and the potential to de-couple from the swings of the global commodity market.

Whilst cars, vans and buses can be electrified, heavy trucks are more difficult so biomethane can be used as a replacement for diesel, reducing harmful diesel emissions and lowering costs. Some areas of industry are also hard to decarbonise and biomethane offers the lowest cost option to decarbonise, keeping our industries competitive and reducing reliance on imported gas whilst also decarbonising them.

These benefits have been recognised by many governments around the world and in Europe, the EU’s RePower 20230 strategy calls for 35 billion cubic metres (bcm) of biomethane by 2030. The Netherlands has committed to producing 2 bcm of “groen gas” (biomethane) by 2030, and many other countries are also looking to RNG as an alternative to natural gas.

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