BIOGAS PRODUCTION AND USE
Currently, the production and use of biogas is ruled under biofuels law no. 26.093, decree 109 year 2007. Even though such law is very active when dealing with biodiesel and ethanol, demand for biogas in Argentina is too low and sanctions that directly apply to its production and use have not yet been defined.
Table I presents several current and future methane recovery and biogas projects. Only one out of four landfills that use methane recovery methods actually generates electricity form it, and this is not even on a daily basis. Those facilities that operate anaerobic digesters around the country use biogas mostly for auto consumption as heating, electricity, and cooking gas helping them reduce their costs and solve some of their contaminating waste problems. Although Argentina has the second largest GNC vehicle fleet in the world and uses primarily NG for cooking and heating, there are no projects to produce and inject biogas to supply the national natural gas grid.
