Biogas Italy 2025, the CIB outlines the way forward for the sector: complete PNRR biomethane projects, new plan to 2030 and reforms to unlock the sector

On the first day of Biogas Italy, the annual event that brings together Italian and European companies, farmers, industries and institutions, the CIB-Consorzio Italiano Biogas presented its 2030 policy manifesto at The Mall in Milan.

Today, the biogas and biomethane sector is facing a crucial phase in its development that sees, on the one hand, the need to accelerate with the investments of the National Recovery and Resilience Plan (PNRR) by 30 June 2026, and on the other, the urgency of having a long-term development plan that looks beyond the PNRR. The policy manifesto sets its sights on 2032 and the valorisation of biomethane as a central resource for all sectors of use and, with a series of targeted proposals, aims at reaching the full potential of production from the agricultural sector of biogas and biomethane; a flexible system for connections to the gas grid, with greater interoperability between distribution and transport networks; and an enhancement of the programmability of plants producing electricity and heat from biogas.

“The sector is demonstrating extraordinary dynamism, but it is essential to work so that the worksites related to the PNRR biomethane measure that have opened in recent months and those that will open shortly can be concluded in the right timeframe,” says CIB President Piero Gattoni, who continues: “The proposal that we have imagined to ensure the stability of our sector goes in the direction of guaranteeing everyone, including those who participated in the fifth and last GSE call, access to the PNRR measure, thus avoiding the dispersion of precious resources. A reflection on the plan’s expiry date is made necessary by the many requests received from the production world that demonstrate the positivity of the direction taken. This signal could be a positive driver for investment, but it must be accompanied by the definition of a post-PNRR regulatory framework that favours the development of biomethane and biogas in the trajectory outlined by the PNIEC: 5 billion cubic metres by 2030. 2025 must really be the year of doing: this is the message we are launching here at Biogas Italy.”.