A round-up and ranking of the Top 10 most-read articles on the Bioenergy International website during 2025 reveals one main surprise. Despite numerous articles throughout the year on biogas, biomethane (aka renewable natural gas - RNG), no such article made to the Top 10, at least not directly.
Indirectly, the biogas space is covered by numbers in the most-read article. It would seem that online reader interest in 2025 broadly hinged on two areas – liquid biofuels for transportation, and solid biomass for industrial heat and power – with the former dominating.
In the former, articles that made the listing covered blending policies, so-called first-generation biofuels, electrofuels, and internal combustion engines (which, of course, include those that run on RNG or bioLNG). This interest could perhaps be partially explained by uncertainty surrounding the Trump Administration’s tolls excise and the tit-for-tat responses, for instance, on ethanol, animal feed, corn, soybeans, and renewable diesel produced in the United States. Compounded, no doubt, by the inability of the European Union (EU) to reach an equitable Mercosur deal.
That said, the European Commission did present an “ambitious yet pragmatic policy framework” in its Automotive Package just last month, easing the 2035 ban on internal combustion engines (ICEs) in new vehicles. According to the proposal, from 2035 onwards, automakers will need to comply with a 90 percent tailpipe emissions reduction target, while the remaining 10 percent emissions will need to be compensated through the use of low-carbon steel, Made in the Union, or from electro-fuels (e-fuels) and biofuels.
When it comes to biomass for industrial heat and power, it seems less clear from the articles ranked tenth and sixth. That the former made the 2025 ranking is nothing short of spectacular, given that it was published late December, suggesting that the topic of biomass combustion for industrial applications is a hot topic, pun intended. Incidentally, wood pellets were the fuel in the industrial heat application that ranked sixth, and pellets featured in four other articles, including in carbonised form.
Online reader interest in forests, woody biomass feedstock availablilty and weather-related disturbances is perhaps attributable to Storm Johannes that swept through central and northern Sweden Christmas week, closely followed by Snowstorm Anna in the New Year, and which has just subsided.
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