Press releases 2025

19.03.2025

From biogenic residues to renewable methane and green hydrogen: DBFZ puts modern pilot plant into operation

The ‘Pilot-SBG’ project, funded by the Federal Ministry for Digital and Transport (BMDV), is focussing on the provision of renewable methane as an energy source for transport sectors that are difficult to electrify. The central components of the research and demonstration project being carried out by the german institute for biomass research, DBFZ, are the planning, construction and successful trial operation of a pilot plant for synthesised biogas (SBG) on a pilot plant scale. In the presence of around 120 guests from research, politics and industry, the new research plant was officially put into operation in a ceremony on 18 March 2025. Read more