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Panel partner: Union of Producers and Employers of the Biogas and Biomethane Industry Description: Poland should be a biogas and biomethane powerhouse. We have 150 million tons of bio-waste available annually in the country: from agricultural production, animal breeding and the agri-food industry, which is a substrate for agricultural biogas. We also have a huge potential of sewage treatment plants and landfills, which is a potential for sewage and waste biogas. We should have roughly as many biogas plants as there are communes in the country, and we have roughly as many as there are counties. Against the background of 20 thousand European (of which 10 thousand German) biogas plants and over a thousand biomethane plants, we are a country underdeveloped in terms of biogas and biomethane. At the same time, Poland is undergoing an energy transformation consisting in the conversion of conventional energy based on coal to the energy of the future based on low-emission sources: nuclear energy and renewable energy sources (RES). Among renewable energy sources, electrical and thermal energy obtained from biogas is unique, because it is not dependent on the weather, and is stable and controllable. What is more, the energy function of biogas plants is parallel to the utilization function, and therefore the environmental function: biogas plants absorb harmful emissions into the atmosphere. Speakers: Tomasz Kajdan Beata Matecka Maciej Szambelańczyk Michał Tarka Moderators: Artur Zawisza __ Financed by the National Institute of Freedom - Center for the Development of Civil Society under the Government Program for the Development of Civic Organizations for the years 2018-2030 PROO