Flogas signs biomethane deal with College Group in Ireland

Flogas on July 23 signed a renewable gas deal with College Group for 26 GWh of biomethane a year, a contract expected to cut more than 6,600 tonnes of carbon. The agreement gives the gas supplier a named domestic offtake and gives the Meath waste manager a route to market for biomethane tied to local agricultural feedstock.

College Group is based in Nobber, Co. Meath, and Agriland described the biomethane as produced from agriculture in Meath. Flogas said the agreement fits its Gas Purchase Agreement strategy and its push to support indigenous biomethane production while helping decarbonise transport across the island of Ireland. For project finance, that sort of offtake certainty has become central to Irish biomethane projects that need long-term buyers before new digesters and upgrading plant can be built.

The deal lands against a clearer policy backdrop. Ireland’s National Biomethane Strategy was published in May 2024, and the government has said it is committed to delivering up to 5.7 TWh of indigenously produced biomethane by 2030. Gas Networks Ireland says biomethane is a carbon-neutral renewable gas made from farm and food waste through anaerobic digestion, and it first flowed into the gas network in 2019 through the injection point in Cush, Co. Kildare.

The network operator has also argued in later biomethane reporting that the existing gas grid is ready to carry the fuel, a point that matters for producers looking to move volumes without building a parallel distribution system. That infrastructure access, combined with feedstock from agriculture and food-waste streams, is what makes the College Group deal a practical model for Ireland’s emerging market.

Flogas, part of DCC Energy, has been building that portfolio. The company previously described its biomethane deal with Nephin Renewable Gas as Ireland’s first and largest, and in September 2025 the Irish Times reported Nephin Energy had agreed a separate Flogas deal linked to a new €50 million biomethane plant in Ballinrobe, Co. Mayo, due to open in 2027. In another sign of state support around the sector, Helen Mc Entee said College Proteins in Meath had been awarded €2.41 million under the government’s Biomethane Capital Grant.

Taken together, the offtake agreements and capital support point to the same commercial logic: biomethane in Ireland is moving from policy target to contracted supply, with feedstock access, waste-management integration and buyer certainty now doing most of the heavy lifting.