Swiss liquefied natural gas (LNG) operator Avanca is buying up more green hydrogen-based e-methane after signing a new 10-year offtake agreement covering the full capacity of an operational 20MW facility in Finland.
The contract will see Avanca’s LNG refuelling subsidiary Alternoil receiving deliveries of e-methane from P2X Solutions’ plant in Harjavalta, which started operations in February 2025.
Alternoil will supply the unquantified volumes of the synthetic gas for heavy-duty trucks across its 56 LNG refuelling sites in Germany, as it looks to meet European mandates.
It adds to a €1bn ($1.15bn) offtake deal for e-methane with Finland’s Ren-Gas and follows soon after Germany transposed mandates for renewable fuels of non-biological origin (RFNBOs) in transport.
Set out by the EU’s Renewable Energy Directive III, fuel suppliers in Germany will need RFNBOs to account for 10% of transport energy by 2040.
P2X’s 20MW Harjavalta plant was billed as the first in Finland to produce RFNBO-compliant e-fuel and is planned to scale to 40MW and 100MW.
Made by combining green hydrogen with carbon dioxide and chemically identical to fossil-sourced methane, e-methane is an increasingly popular route to meeting this target.
While proponents claim it could act as a cleaner bridging fuel that can use existing infrastructure, it is criticised for its energy-intensive and costly production process.
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