Spain could generate 8,000 million cubic metres of agro-industrial biogas

According to surveys carried out by the innovative and strategic Probiogas Project, Spain has a potential for agro-industrial biogas production of 8,000 million cubic metres per year. The biogas could be produced using the 83.5 million tonnes of agricultural byproducts generated in Spain as raw materials for this form of renewable energy. Spain produces 49 million tonnes per year of livestock byproducts, with a potential of 2,400 million m3 per year, and 27 million tonnes of plant byproducts with a biogas potential of 5,000 m3 per year.

Then there are 3.3 million tonnes per year of meat byproducts with a potential of 100 million m3 per year, and 0.5 million tonnes of fish byproducts (43.5 million m3 per year). Finally, the annual 3.1 million tonnes of dairy byproducts could generate 125.5 million m3 per year.