Energy crisis: biomethane, a good vein to exploit

2023-06-07T09:12:11.933Z

Highlights: Anaerobic digestion makes it possible to produce gas locally from. Mauritz Quaak and his brother Jacques-Pierre were the first to inject gas produced directly on their farm into GRDF's distribution network. They are using the resources of their farm Arcy, in Chaumes-en-Brie (Seine-et-Marne), as fuel. "Ten years ago, we were a drop of water, or rather a molecule in an ocean of gas," Mauritz says.

While the war in Ukraine has definitively cut off the valves of Russian gas, anaerobic digestion makes it possible to produce gas locally from