Europe Rediscovers Biogas in Search for Energy Independence
The need to reduce the EU’s dependence on Russian gas has cast the spotlight on the gas package of legislation presented by the European Commission on 15 December, just two months before Russia invaded Ukraine.
Before the war, “the gas package would not have been a priority for the French EU Council presidency,” said Phuc-Vinh Nguyen, a researcher at the Jacques Delors Institute’s Energy Centre. EU countries are now looking at renewable gas and the Commission’s gas regulation and directive with renewed interest, he said.