Engie said it 's planning to spend € ##1 ##m ( $ 912 m ) developing green technologies including biomethane , power - to - energy and hydrogen in the next five years to help the French government meet a target of 10 % green gas by 2030 . The Eur10 million BGB plant inaugurated Friday will produce minimal volumes -- just 23 GWh or 2.4 million cu m/year -- of biomethane through the processing of mainly agricultural by-products of plant origin. Engie said that with partners it would spend € 2bn to produce 5 TWh per year by 2030 . CEO Isabelle Kocher made the claims at the opening of a biogas plant in France set to produce 23 GWh of biomethane per year . France ’s gas industry is working to maintain a role for gas . Danish firm Orsted claimed that 10 % of the country ’s gas was already green .
Engie said it 's planning to spend € ##1 ##m ( $ 912 m ) developing green technologies including biomethane , power - to - energy and hydrogen in the next five years to help the French government meet a target of 10 % green gas by 2030 . Engie said that with partners it would spend € 2bn to produce 5 TWh per year by 2030 . CEO Isabelle Kocher made the claims at the opening of a biogas plant in France set to produce 23 GWh of biomethane per year . France ’s gas industry is working to maintain a role for gas . Danish firm Orsted claimed that 10 % of the country ’s gas was already green .