Nature Energy to target future shipping demand with liquified biogas plant

Danish biogas firm Nature Energy aims to produce 20,000 mt/year of liquified biogas (LBG) by the Port of Frederikshavn in Denmark.

PHOTO: Groundbreaking ceremony last week for an upcoming liquified biogas plant in Port of Frederikshavn. Nature Energy

Nature Energy says LBG produced at the plant will be supplied to vessels docked at the Port of Frederikshavn. It argues that the strategic location of the port could spur uptake of LBG from vessels en route to the Baltic Sea.

The plant will be built by Nature Energy along with Danish engineering firm Makeen Energy. They have set an ambitious target of supplying LBG stems to vessels at Frederikshavn from next year.

Nature Energy claims that the plant's production capacity can be expanded sixfold to 120,000 mt/year of LBG.

LBG is typically produced from biofeedstocks such as biodegradable waste from homes, industry and municipal sewage waste. These sources would have emitted carbon dioxide when they were broken down naturally. So when the carbon dioxide is instead emitted during LBG combustion in a ship engine, this process has not emitted any additional carbon dioxide into the atmosphere and can count as carbon neutral.

By Nithin Chandran

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