We’ve spoken a lot on policy recently as failures to announce a successor to the Green Gas Support Scheme (GGSS), and dire straights with waste management and a lack of Energy from Waste Plants in Scotland, have exposed a severe hole in the lack of policies incentivising the construction of new EfW and Anaerobic Digestion plants across the UK. Not to mention the famous delay of the UK-ETS incineration expansion, adding even more uncertainty to an already vulnerable sector.

It creates a vicious paradox: brilliant regional potential sitting completely sidelined by national inertia. Yet, when you look past the regulatory gridlock, the underlying demand and economic logic for green gas and waste-to-energy are blindingly obvious – if only the frameworks were there to support them.

Yes, policy hasn’t been kind to renewable energy and waste management recently, and neither have the headlines. Often cited as the reason UK household energy prices are high, British media tends to fall back on renewables and clean energy infrastructure as the all-encompassing scapegoat of our rising utility bills.

So, it’s more than a little refreshing to see a positive headline published on the Wales 24/7 website that served to showcase the importance of biomethane to energy security in Wales.

The article, published on 6th October 2026 and entitled ‘Green gas could meet almost half of Wales’ gas demands, report finds’, tells of an event at the Plaid Cymru Conference where politicians, farming leaders and energy experts have called for greater ambition to unlock the production and use of biomethane in Wales.

The article points to some extremely interesting and thought provoking statistics that show just how vital biomethane could be to the UK’s energy security, achieving Net Zero, and achieving a more sustainable and renewable energy future; for example:

• “Wales has sufficient sustainable feedstock to generate 3 TWh of biomethane by 2030 and 10 TWh by 2050. That would be enough to meet almost half of Wales’ existing economy-wide gas demand, or around 80 per cent of the gas used to heat Welsh homes today, without negatively impacting food production”

• “85p of every £1 invested in biomethane remains in Britain, and that the wider green gas sector could generate £4 billion in Gross Value Added (GVA) by 2050”

And even calls out the need for greater support from policymakers and union between industries to achieve Wales’ biomethane goals.

This, of course, is key and, what we’re seeing across policy at the moment is a severe lack of union, and of joined up thinking; alongside a lack of long term commitment, a show of support for a sector that really could provide the renewable baseload the UK needs to comfortably achieve energy security, lower household bills, and keep energy spending within British borders.

Without joined up policy, incentives, and cross-industry buy-in, Wales – and indeed all nations across the UK – will never turn potential into power.

We don’t lack the feedstock, the engineering talent, or the economic incentive. What we lack is political consistency.

It’s time for Westminster and devolved governments to stop admiring the data, bridge the post-2028 funding vacuum, and put the policy weight behind the infrastructure our green transition demands. The blueprint is already written; the government just needs to pick up the pen.