In a joint letter to European Union policymakers, 47 trade associations and stakeholder organizations involved in the decarbonization of the gas industry in Europe are calling on the EU to include a binding 2030 target for the scale-up of biomethane in the Hydrogen and Gas Package.
The legislation, which is part of the EU Green Deal, represents the last major avenue to introduce a binding biomethane (aka renewable natural gas – RNG) target into EU law in a timeframe that would allow the industry to deliver by the 2030 deadline.
The signatories acknowledge the efforts already undertaken by policymakers to reflect some of the REPowerEU ambitions into the Hydrogen & Gas Package. However, the 35 bcm of biomethane would remain as an objective in the Regulation’s recitals and would therefore be non-binding.
The signatories urge policymakers to deliver an ambitious binding target for biomethane at the EU level.
This, the signatories say, is an opportunity to truly incentivize the currently recommended goal of 35 bcm.
In addition, the signatories are calling for a wider binding EU-level target for the development of all renewable gases, complemented by concrete measures to mandate the reduction of the greenhouse gas (GHG) intensity of the gas mix by 2030.
