Financing an Anaerobic Digestion Project Advice Guide

From the 1980s to the 2000s, the development of the methanisation sector in France was very limited and mainly focused on the urban and industrial sewage sludge sector. Under the effect of successive increases in the purchase price of electricity produced from biogas and the purchase price of biomethane in 2006 and 2011, this sector is now the subject of renewed interest. In particular, the complementarity of its processes with the activities and needs of farmers is generating increasing interest in the agricultural world.

In many respects, the development of an anaerobic digestion project is a difficult task and requires substantial investments from project leaders, particularly farmers, and from the public authorities that subsidize them.

This guide was designed with the main objective of raising awareness of the risk analysis approach among project leaders, but also to provide answers from specialists and feedback on the steps to be taken to set up bank financing. In addition to the feedback of experience proposed by the authors of this document, several banks have also been included in the reflection in order to bring their expertise