“Can biomethane help unlock the potential of Polish agriculture?” – article by Jan Sakławski and Karolina Wciślo-Karczewska in Przegląd Gazowniczy
9 July 2025 • Autor: Kancelaria Brysiewicz Bokina i Wspólnicy
It has not been known for a long time that Polish agriculture has a huge potential to be developed in the production of energy and gas from renewable sources – above all from agricultural biomass.
However, the potential of Polish agriculture has so far not been fully exploited, although it has undoubtedly not gone unnoticed. Suffice it to recall here the famous 2008 slogan of “a biogas plant in every municipality”, according to which around 2 500 agricultural biogas plants were to be built in Poland by the end of 2020. According to data from the National Agricultural Support Centre in August 2020, there are currently just over 100.
Biomethane, i.e. a purified and treated gas that can be both injected into the gas grid and used as a transport fuel, may provide a new impetus for the development of biogas facilities in Poland. For many years, the main problem with biomethane production was cost. After all, the purification of biomethane to the quality of mains gas required significant investment in the technology for its treatment to the parameters of gas and the parameters allowing it to be used for vehicle propulsion. However, we now have increasingly cheaper technology, much of it Polish.
The article “Will biomethane help exploit the potential of Polish agriculture?” by Jan Saklawski and Karolina Wcisło – Karczewska appeared in the April issue of the Gas Review.
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