In Ukraine, Teofipol Energy Company has completed its first gas-to-grid export of domestically produced biomethane (aka renewable natural gas - RNG) to Hungary. In doing so, it has become the fifth Ukrainian biomethane exporter and the fourth company to supply biomethane via the existing gas pipeline infrastructure.
According to the Bioenergy Association of Ukraine (UABIO), Teofipol Energy Company, a UABIO member, exported approximately 45,000 Nm³ of biomethane in August 2026. The shipment was transported through Ukraine’s gas transmission system, with Hungary-based ERU Europe as the buyer.
Largest RNG plant in Ukraine
Teofipol Energy Company commissioned its biomethane plant in Ukraine’s Khmelnytskyi region in early 2026.
With a design capacity of around 56 million Nm³ per annum, it is currently the largest operational biomethane project in Ukraine and the first facility of this scale to be connected directly to the national gas transmission system.
The company’s production complex processes organic feedstocks, including livestock farming residues, sugar beet pulp and other agricultural biomass.
The biogas is upgraded to pipeline-quality RNG, enabling it to be injected into the gas network and supplied to customers in Ukraine and other European countries.
According to representatives of the supplying company, the company intends to continue deliveries in September and increase exports to as much as 200,000 Nm³. Its current biomethane production is estimated at approximately 1.4–2.8 million Nm³ per month.
Placing RNG and bioLNG on the European market
According to UABIO, Ukraine began exporting biomethane in February 2025, when another UABIO member VITAGRO, completed the country’s first pipeline delivery.
Other UABIO members, MHP and Gals Agro subsequently started exporting RNG via the grid, while MHP and UM Liquid Gas also entered the European market with liquefied biomethane (bioLNG).
In 2025, Ukrainian producers exported more than 11.2 million Nm³ of RNG. With Teofipol Energy Company entering the market, Ukraine now has five biomethane exporters.
As of March 2026, the combined design capacity of Ukraine’s RNG plants had reached approximately 108 million Nm³ per annum.
The Ministry of Economy, Environment and Agriculture expects national capacity to increase to around 150 million Nm³ per year by the end of 2026, with a realistic target of 500 million Nm³ by 2030.
Government supporting expansion
The sector’s expansion is being supported by the Ukrainian Government’s Biomethane Production Development Programme until 2035.
The programme aims to expand production capacity, develop domestic demand and integrate Ukrainian biomethane into the European energy market.
Developed by UABIO together with UK International Development and Ukraine Innovate Ukraine, the Road Map to 2050 defines a phased integration of Ukraine into the European renewable energy and renewable gas markets, in which biomethane, synthetic gases and other renewable gases become core export and system-forming energy carriers.
During 2025–2026, Ukraine established the legal and institutional foundations for full market entry of Ukrainian-produced RNG into the EU, including alignment of regulatory frameworks, connection rules, certification systems and trading procedures.
In the medium term, this enables rapid production scaling, investment mobilisation and deep integration into European energy and climate markets.
In the long term to 2050, this trajectory supports the emergence of an export-oriented renewable gas economy, underpinning Ukraine’s energy security, decarbonisation pathway and post-war economic recovery.
For Europe, biomethane is already a commercially available renewable alternative to fossil natural gas, transported and stored using existing gas infrastructure and consumed by industry, the energy sector, households and transportation.
Under REPowerEU, the European Union aims to increase biomethane production to 35 billion m³ annually by 2030.
Every new producer and export delivery strengthens Ukraine’s position in the European renewable gas market. The ability to deliver biomethane through the existing gas transmission system shows that the Ukrainian sector is progressing from individual pilot projects towards a systematic and growing presence in the EU market, UABIO said in a statement.
