Today, with more than 50 reference projects and more than 35 employees, Biogas Plus is a leading organization in the biogas sector. Particularly in the Benelux and France, Biogas Plus is indispensable as a supplier of components and as a project organization with all the necessary disciplines for the successful realization of any biogas project. Below you can read the history that Biogas Plus has gone through to get where it is now.

2020

Due to the successful construction of four projects in France in the meantime, the Joint Venture in France has been fully taken over by Biogas Plus on 1 January 2020. As of January 1, 2020, Biogas Plus SAS is therefore a fact and new employees are recruited under the leadership of the new French director Bernard Prost.

2019

The organizational structure of Biogas Plus will be adjusted one year after the acquisition by ENGIE . The capacity of Biogas Plus is growing due to the recruitment of new employees and the introduction of a management team. The management continues to be led by Wim Kuster and Seine Roelofs. However, 2019 will also be marked by yet another new country that Biogas Plus has introduced within its portfolio. Together with her partner Shtang Eco , she is building the first 1 MW biogas plant in Israel, which is fed with 60,000 tons of manure per year.

2018

Due to the green gas expertise that Biogas Plus possesses and the successful installation of various Bio2Net feeding stations, Biogas Plus will introduce its own gas processing installation in 2018 . The first three installations will be built as early as 2018. In addition to the successful introduction of the gas treatment plant, the farm scale digester is also being introduced, called Compact Plus Manure Digester (CPM) . This manure fermenter is designed as a product to ferment exclusively proprietary manure from a cattle farm and to convert it into sustainable electricity or green gas. In addition to the introduction of these new products, Biogas Plus will also be taken over by ENGIE in 2018. ENGIE wants to accelerate its position in the development and production of biomethane, with which Biogas Plus can help. Now is the time for Wim Kuster Sr. to get out of the company.

2017

Due to the improving market for biogas installations in France, Biogas Plus has meanwhile entered into a partnership with a French company in the form of a Joint Venture. In 2017 this will lead to a first biogas project and Biogas Plus will build its first biogas plant in France. More projects would follow soon. In addition to this development in France, Biogas Plus in the Netherlands has developed a new type of fermentation installation for the fermentation of 100% manure, called the Compact Plus Manure Digester . The installation is designed to produce green energy, sustainable heat or green gas using only farm-specific manure from one farm. The first two installations will already be sold in 2017.

2016

In 2015, Biogas Plus patented its own Bio2Net gatekeeper on the market. This product checks the green gas before it is fed into the natural gas network.

2015

In 2015, the workforce of Biogas Plus expanded considerably, resulting in an increase in the number of employees to 25 employees. Partly due to the growing interest in the production of green gas, Biogas Plus acquired green gas expertise in the second half of 2015.

2013

In 2012, Biogas Plus acquired a biogas plant for the production of 550 kWe. This installation was already converted in the same year and expanded with the Vacuum Pressure Tank pump system, which enabled the installation to process many different types of biomass.

2012

Due to the success of the first biogas plant in Turkey, Biogas Plus built a second biogas plant in 2012 for the fermentation of 200,000 tons of manure per year and the production of 2.4 MWe for the same customer. The core of this installation consisted of two mixing / hydrolysations and a central Vacuum Pressure Tank pump system.

2011

In 2011 Biogas Plus introduced its own pasteurization installation for the hygienization of manure and / or digestate. The manure processing obligation that would follow would make this product an indispensable element of biogas plants.

2010

After having completed several successful biogas projects in the Netherlands, Biogas Plus first went outside the Netherlands in 2010 to build its first foreign biogas installation. It concerned a manure fermentation installation on a dairy farm in Turkey, which would produce 345 kWe. This project became so successful that in 2012 Biogas Plus was allowed to build a second biogas plant for the same organization for the production of 2.4 MWe. In addition to the first experience abroad, Biogas Plus also entered a biogas project in 2010 as the owner for the first time. This installation, designed for the production of 800 kWe, would be the first in a line of several biogas installations that Biogas Plus has become (co-) owner of.

2009

After the first successful project in 2008, Biogas Plus built a second biogas plant in 2009. This was also the first year that, in addition to the founders, a project leader was hired to lead the construction of the second biogas plant. This second biogas plant was the first to be built according to Biogas Plus` own design and patent. This meant that a hydrolysis was placed around the main digester where all input products were combined to undergo the hydrolysis step there before being pumped to the digester as feed. Naturally, this project also used the Vacuum Pressure Tank pump system as a central pump system.

2008

In 2008 Biogas Plus supervised the construction of its first project. This project already implements the first Vacuum Pressure Tank (VDT) pump system and its own drying installation .

2007

Biogas Plus was established in 2017 as a consultancy organization for providing biological advice to biogas plants and the development of biogas projects. At the time, the organization was owned by Wim Kuster, Wim Kuster Sr. and Seine Roelofs.

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