Company from Bahia wants to increase the number of suppliers of fuel derived from biogas
The Bahia Gas Company (Bahiagás) launched this Thursday (26) its first Public Tender for the acquisition of Biomethane. The process should welcome manifestations from local producers interested in composing the portfolio of new suppliers of the Company and that have the capacity to sell 2 thousand m³ per day.
The initiative should strengthen the natural gas market not only in Bahia, but also throughout Brazil. With its first Public Call for the sector, Bahiagás becomes a partner of groups of local distributors that have already started projects aimed at the acquisition of renewable fuel.
For Bahiagás, this is a way of instigating the socioeconomic development of the state of Bahia, encouraging the establishment and consolidation of a Biomethane production chain, based on various sources, in its concession area.
By launching the Public Call for acquisition, Bahiagás believes in increasing the reliability of the provision and the competitiveness of the use of gas as an energy source in the state. The digital channel for interested companies is on the Company's website. Click here to access.
How Biomethane Can Replace Natural Gas
Biomethane is a gas from the biogas through a purification process that reduces gas levels
carbon dioxide and water, and removes hydrogen sulfide, resulting in a compound with more than 90% methane, which enables uses similar to that of natural gas. Therefore, it can be injected into the same network already used by natural gas distributors.
Biogas, in turn, is produced from organic waste from agricultural, industrial and basic sanitation activities, through decomposition by bacteria in biodigesters.
Bahiagás numbers
Bahiagás is present in 22 municipalities. There are more than 65 thousand consumers, 1.086 km of piped network and annual distribution of more than 5 million m³/day of natural gas.
