# ‘Green’ gas production set to increase. Not!

- Link: https://greenlivingguy.com/2019/11/green-gas-production-set-to-increase/
- Published: 2019-11-30T22:02:00-05:00
- Author: greenlivingguy

So the production of biomethane is increasing as the ‘green’ gas. Because it’s become
the UK’s leading renewable heat technology.

![Bristol Biomethane run buses](https://i0.wp.com/greenlivingguy.com/wp-content/
uploads/2015/04/img_20150414_201144.jpg?resize=100%2C75&quality=52&ssl=1)

In addition and by the end of 2015 there were 32 operational biomethane to grid 
projects. All consequently set to increase production substantially.  Most interestingly,
32m therms of biomethane was injected into the gas [grid](https://greenlivingguy.com/2015/06/renewable-energy-cheaper-than-natural-gas/).
That’s compared to just 300,000 in 2012 when I got thisinfo!

I’ve heard the 28 [biomethane](https://greenlivingguy.com/2019/03/energy-vision-testifies-biomethane-should-be-part-of-nys-climate-legislation/)
plants currently in operation have the capacity to produce enough energy. That’s
so much energy. So much that it consequently meets the heating and cooking needs
of more than 100,000 homes. As well as biomethane is increasingly used to power 
HGVs and buses.  So the fuel’s popularity has been bolstered by the government’s
Renewable Heat Initiative.

So according to James Baldwin, managing director of CNG services: “Biomethane, made
from waste, is a perfect renewable fuel.”  That’s because it can be seamlessly incorporated
into their existing energy network. As well as it also works as a vehicle fuel. 
All most importantly for HGVs and buses. Growth of biomethane since the first Biomethane
Day has been spectacular.

**_In conclusion, biomethane plants will be injecting over 2.3 billion units of 
gas into their gas grid. That’s the equivalent of three 60,000 tonne LNG tankers.
All of them not needing to dock at our ports. And the future looks bright. Finally
and also all main parties support biomethane._**

However and finally [Physics World](https://physicsworld.com/a/how-green-is-green-gas/)
reports: Green gas is being talked up of late as one new way forward for decarbonization.
So what exactly is green gas? It could, in fact, be a lot of different things, some
of which are far from green. In general, that depends on the sources and the counterfactuals
of using/not using them.

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#### Renewable Energy Cheaper than Natural Gas

Renewable Energy has completely changed the energy game so that natural gas is really
[fracked](https://greenlivingguy.com/2019/04/why-use-fracked-gas-when-renewables-work-great/)
up to pull out of the ground when solar is cheaper. Seriously. Solar and wind are
[getting cheaper](https://www.ovoenergy.com/green-energy) to mine per se than natural
gas.

Now of course this statement seems far fetched so here is evidence of it.  As we
see all the time, natural gas prices go up. Utility prices will always go up.  However,
then there are articles I have where Bloomberg Business the real threat to renewables
isn’t cheap oil; it’s cheap electricity. In the U.S., abundant natural gas has made
power production exceedingly inexpensive. So the consumer then gets confused. What
am I supposed to believe?

 

_[Source: Intelligent Building Today, ](https://web.archive.org/web/20160621194825/http://www.intelligentbuildingtoday.com:80/2015/03/09/us-green-economy-adds-thousands-of-new-clean-energy-jobs)
_09 Apr 15 | Author Lucinda Beeman |