Snam, through the subsidiary Snam4Mobility, has acquired, for a value of approximately 2 million euros, 100% of Enersi Sicilia Srl, the company that owns the authorization for the development of a biomethane production infrastructure from the Organic Fraction of Urban Solid Waste (FORSU) in the province of Caltanissetta.
The acquisition will allow Snam to build its first biomethane plant which it will be able to handle 36.000 tons per year of municipal waste providing neighboring municipalities with a totally renewable solution to the problem of disposal.
The plant will be built by leveraging managerial skills and the know-how of the subsidiary IES Biogas, which will follow its development and construction.
“This acquisition – he comments the managing director of Snam Marco Alverà – is another step by Snam in renewable energy, confirming ours commitment to new business development of the energy transition and of our role as accelerator of the Italian biomethane supply chain. Biomethane can make an essential contribution to the reduction of carbon dioxide, in Italy and beyond, and to the virtuous management of the waste cycle in a circular economy perspective".
Snam4Mobility is the company through which Snam is developing the refueling infrastructure for compressed natural gas (Cng) and liquefied natural gas (Lng) vehicles. The growing market interest in methane sustainable mobility and biomethane demonstrates the great potential of alternative uses of gas.
Biomethane is a renewable energy source derived from the biogas purification process obtained from the valorisation of products and by-products of the agricultural and agro-industrial chain and from the organic fraction of urban waste. Biomethane can be fed into the natural gas transportation infrastructure.
A study commissioned from Ecofys by the European consortium Gas for Climate (which includes Snam and eight other companies and associations) estimated that the production and use of biomethane and other renewable gases in existing infrastructures would allow Europe to achieve climate goals of the Paris Agreement saving around €140 billion a year by 2050.
