Biomethane energy-security grant
Grants for businesses building new biomass-fermentation plants that purify biogas to biomethane and connect to the gas network in Poland.
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The programme “Poprawa bezpieczeństwa energetycznego poprzez wykorzystanie biometanu” supports new plants combining biomass fermentation, purification of the resulting biogas to biomethane, and a gas connection. Funding comes from resources held in the national Modernisation Fund account.
The connection may instead be a dedicated pipeline linking the plant directly to an end user; this route excludes transport use. CO₂ capture infrastructure can also be eligible.
The grant covers up to 45% of eligible costs. The remaining eligible costs cannot be financed from other public resources. For a project financed through a dedicated project company (“project finance”), at least 15% of eligible investment costs must come from the applicant’s own funds as cash-paid share capital. State-aid rules and the financial assessment also apply.
Eligibility
- You must be a business within the meaning of the Polish Entrepreneurs Law. You must not be subject to applicable EU or Polish sanctions concerning Russia, Belarus or the war in Ukraine. Statutory exclusions and unpaid taxes or social-insurance contributions prevent eligibility. You must meet your public-law obligations and civil obligations to NFOŚiGW. A funding agreement terminated by NFOŚiGW for reasons attributable to you in the previous three years also excludes you, except termination by mutual agreement.
- The installation must produce at least 2 million m³ of biomethane a year for the gas network. Submit connection conditions or a promise of a connection agreement from the distribution or transmission operator. The gas must meet the applicable network-quality parameters.
- Use feedstocks listed in Annex IX of the EU Renewable Energy Directive (2018/2001), and meet its sustainability and greenhouse-gas criteria. The biomass declaration requires safeguards for biodiversity, carbon-rich land, soil and water, and sustainable forest management where relevant. Introduce a mass-balance system tracking biomass and products before operation.
- Demonstrate at least an 80% greenhouse-gas reduction against the reference value, using the Directive’s Annex VI calculations or credible, verified actual data replacing default values.
- Declare compliance with the “Do No Significant Harm” principle: the investment must avoid significant environmental harm. NFOŚiGW monitors compliance through preparation, implementation and the five-year durability period. CO₂ reductions and non-renewable primary-energy savings are monitored annually.
- Apply before construction, binding equipment orders or other commitments that make the investment irreversible. Explain any earlier work or costs that you consider preparatory. Eligible costs run from application submission to 30 September 2030.
- The project must comply with the local spatial development plan where one applies.
- Include an environmental decision with the application; it must be final before the grant agreement. The first payment requires a final building permit. Maintain the investment for five years after completion.
- Only new equipment is eligible. VAT, property purchases, vehicle-fuelling stations, further processing to liquefied or highly compressed biomethane (bioLNG/bioCNG), and patents, licences or know-how are excluded. Storage and investment preparation each have a 10% eligible-cost limit, investment management 3%, and feedstock-preparation infrastructure 20%; the latter must serve biomethane production. Management costs exclude the beneficiary’s personnel costs.
- The environmental-effect assessment requires credible calculations and production of a compliant fertiliser, plant-cultivation aid or digestate product. You must also meet at least two project-readiness conditions. The list comprises letters of intent for CO₂ offtake (where relevant) and feedstock supply; electricity connection conditions; a final environmental decision for the whole investment; a building-permit application; a gas connection agreement; a building permit or equivalent decision for the entire investment; promises of biomethane and CO₂ offtake agreements (the latter where relevant); a feedstock-supply commitment or evidence of own feedstock resources; and complete tender documentation including the functional and use programme. A zero score in either assessment rejects the application.
- The requested grant divided by planned annual biomethane production must be below PLN 14 per m³. The overall assessment requires at least 48 of 80 points, plus a positive assessment of forecast financial viability, balanced project financing and state-aid eligibility. Passing assessment or appearing on the ranking list does not guarantee a grant.
- Comply with applicable public-procurement rules. Where these do not apply, the application declaration requires transparent, competitive expenditure and a written contract selected through an auction or tender; a closed, nonpublic tender does not meet that requirement.
How to apply
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- Closed historical round.
The 2026 call is closed. Read its programme and competition documents on NFOŚiGW’s call page before assessing this historical round.
Applications for that round were submitted through the GWD portal after creating an account and selecting the programme. Attach a feasibility study and an active financial model. Use an electronic signature with the legal effect of a handwritten signature. If you cannot use it, the competition regulations provide for sending the electronic application and delivering the GWD-generated printout with its barcode and signed declarations to NFOŚiGW; receipt at its office within 07:30–15:30 determines whether that alternative met the deadline.