Green gas from residual and waste. The escape from the Russian natural gas trap should be successful through our own production. The corresponding law is still lacking to get started.
Austria is making concrete plans. Germany has already done that. The national emergency plan’s alarm should follow in the coming days. The fear of gas shortages is increasing. Turquoise green has been criticized. It needs more speed. Mainly to escape dependence on Russian stuff. There are ways out. Like biogas.
CO2 neutral and at your doorstep
It grows right outside your door and is created by fermenting biomass. The green gas is CO2 neutral and can be fed directly into the gas grid to generate electricity, power vehicles or after processing into biomethane.
Biologist Andreas Wagner of the University of Innsbruck: “And unlike wind or solar energy, it can be generated regardless of the weather.” It is important that the waste is from, for example, agriculture, but also from gastronomy. “Otherwise, energy production would compete with food production.” Greenpeace boss Alexander Egit sees it this way, given the many famines. “Biogas must be generated from residual flows such as maize straw, manure, slurry or household biowaste.”
Climate minister: “Law will be revised soon”
Boerenbond chairman Georg Strasser: “With biogas we can get out of our dependence on Russia. In 2030 we can cover 10 percent of gas consumption and in 2040 a third.” Biologist Wagner also thinks that part of the natural gas needs can be replaced by bio.
“The Minister of the Green Environment must act urgently. Biogas producers need a legal framework to manage investments in time,” said Strasser, member of the Austrian People’s Party (ÖVP) and farmer’s representative. Despite the enormous potential, only 15 of the 300 existing systems currently supply the gas network. Minister Leonore Gewessler sees the expansion of green gas and green hydrogen also as “an important part of our exit plan from Russian natural gas”.
An Austrian hydrogen strategy was recently presented. The green gas law has also been developed. “The goal is that we can start with an assessment as soon as possible.”
Source: Krone
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