Biogas Väst is a regional collaborative project with the overall aim of stimulating market development within biogas production, distribution and the development of the gas-powered vehicle market. In the project, where Business Region Göteborg is the principal, some 30 organizations, municipal authorities and companies are involved, including AB Volvo, Renova, Göteborg Energi AB, FordonsGas and LRF.Our partners
The project commenced in 2001 to pursue market development within biogas
production, the distribution and expansion of gas fuelling stations and the use of gas-powered vehicles. Biogas Väst is also seeking to develop expertise in concepts that could be exported.
When Biogas Väst started in 2001 there were nine gas fuelling stations and approximately 800 vehicles in western Sweden. By 2008 Western Sweden had the best infrastructure in the country with 36 gas fuelling stations, approximately 7,000 vehicles and eight facilities producing biogas for automotive purposes.
Methane gas for vehicles (biogas and naturalgas) replaced around 18 million liters of petrol in 2007, which is expected to reduce greenhouse gases by the equivalent of 22,000 tonnes of CO2 per year.
Investment in western Sweden in biogas facilities, the infrastructure, fuelling stations, pipelines and swapbodies up to and including 2007 is estimated at around SEK 670 million. Investment in gas-powered vehicles — cars, light transport vehicles, buses and trucks — is estimated at SEK 1.8 — 2 billion.
