Advanced BioFuels USA

The new policy provides an increase in the greenhouse gas quota from 6% to 22% as the target for 2030 and defines an ‘attractive’ sub-quota for advanced biofuels, such as biomethane derived from straw. Verbio will increasingly focus on its development and investment activities on biomethane.

“CNG and biomethane from residues and straw are the only available, practicable, and most cost-effective solution for maximum CO₂ reduction in truck freight transport,” said Sauter.

Verbio is accelerating the conversion of its own truck fleet. In the meantime, 20 of the 80 Verbio trucks are already running on CNG or biomethane. The entire fleet is to be converted to vehicles with gas and biodiesel drives by the end of 2021. Verbio will add the first LNG vehicles to the fleet in the summer.

The company is also investing more than €10 million in the installation of the corresponding infrastructure to become the largest provider of bio-LNG in the German and European market from the middle of this year.

Sauter also highlighted the future potential of biomethane in industrial applications, with foundations laid by the National Hydrogen Strategy adopted in 2020. In addition to building a corresponding infrastructure for hydrogen, it also promotes the production of green hydrogen, which can be based on either green electricity through electrolysis or the use of biomethane.

“While Verbio is mainly concentrating on the traffic sector with biomethane today, completely different customers from the steel, chemical, and cement industries with huge needs will come to us in the next 10 years,” commented Sauter. “This supports our strategy of increasing independence from the fuel market.

“The question of how long the combustion engine will continue to exist in commercial goods transport does not become a question of survival for Verbio.”  READ MORE