Green Gas International

What Green Gas International does

Green Gas International converts methane emissions from coal mines and landfill sites into clean energy and valuable carbon credits. The company offers an integrated portfolio built around three core product lines — Mine-Gas Solutions, Landfill-Gas Solutions, and Low Calorific-Gas (Lean Gas) Solutions — supported by project execution, gas collection and management, and methane treatment service modules. Its underlying technology spans extraction, treatment, and utilization of methane gas across varying qualities, including the ability to economically process low calorific lean gas streams that are difficult for less specialized competitors to monetize, with output delivered as electricity or heat.

The company sells primarily through a project-based B2B sales motion, engaging directly with mine operators and landfill operators as enterprise customers. Its integrated delivery model spans gas collection, project management, procurement, operation, and maintenance, generating revenue from energy generation and sale alongside long-tail service work. Green Gas has executed more than 20 projects across its three verticals and cites several decades of operating experience as a core credibility asset, with capital raised from Demeter Partners in 2008 and a prior acquisition of Green Gas DPB in 2007 as the principal historical capital events.

Green Gas International operates as a privately held company headquartered in Amsterdam (Netherlands), with operating activity conducted through its Green Gas Germany entity. Customer segments are concentrated in two verticals — coal mine operators and landfill operators — with industrial facilities producing lean gas streams as a secondary segment. There is no evidence of public listing, recurring SaaS-style revenue, or digital platform components; the business is fundamentally an industrial engineering and infrastructure franchise.

Name

Green Gas International

Legal name

Green Gas Germany

Website

https://greengas.net

Company type

Private

Founded year

2005

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

251–500 employees

Short description

Green Gas International converts methane emissions from coal mines and landfill sites into clean electricity and heat. It sells integrated project-based solutions — covering gas extraction, treatment, energy generation, and operations — directly to mine and landfill operators across multiple European markets.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Headquarters

HQ city

Amsterdam

HQ country

Netherlands

HQ region

Europe

Markets served

GTM type

B2B

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Operations, Personnel, Technology or R&D, Infrastructure, Marketing or Sales

Revenue model

1. Energy Generation and Sales: Generating electricity and heat from recovered methane gas sourced from mine sites, landfills, and lean gas installations. Revenue derived from energy production and sale to grid or direct consumption.

Go-to-market motion1 record

Distribution channels1 record

Marketing channels1 record

Core offering

Green Gas International (operating as Green Gas Germany) provides integrated methane gas extraction, treatment, and utilization solutions for coal mine operators, landfill operators, and industrial facilities with low calorific gas sources. The company converts harmful methane emissions into electricity and heat, offering complete project-based solutions spanning gas collection, project management, procurement, operation, and maintenance. It has demonstrated experience in more than 20 projects across mine gas, landfill gas, and lean gas categories.

Product overview

Green Gas Germany operates as an integrated energy solutions provider offering a unified portfolio of methane gas utilization services. The core offerings consist of Mine-Gas Solutions, Landfill-Gas Solutions, and Low Calorific-Gas (Lean Gas) Solutions, supported by Energy Projects execution capabilities. These are complemented by gas collection and management services, and methane gas treatment services. Together, these products and services provide operators of mines and landfills with a complete solution spanning from gas collection through project management, procurement, operation and maintenance, enabling the conversion of harmful greenhouse gas emissions into clean electricity and heat.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Mine-Gas Solutions Integrated solutions for coal mine operators to extract, treat, and convert mine gas (methane from coal seams) into electricity and heat, while improving site safety and productivity.
• Landfill-Gas Solutions Solutions for landfill operators to collect and convert methane emissions from decomposing waste at landfill sites into clean electricity, addressing greenhouse gas emissions and producing renewable energy.
• Low Calorific-Gas (Lean Gas) Solutions Processing solutions for industrial facilities with low calorific lean gas streams, converting difficult-to-utilize gas sources into usable electricity or heat economically.
• Energy Projects Project development and execution services for methane gas utilization projects, spanning design, procurement, construction, operation, and maintenance across multiple sites.

Quantifiable outcome

• Converts harmful methane emissions into valuable energy while eliminating a harmful greenhouse gas

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature1 record

Scale indicators2 records

Recent moves5 records

Expansion highlights4 records

Broad incumbents

• Wärtsilä: Global provider of gas-to-power solutions and engine services for landfill and biogas applications, comparable as a broader incumbent serving similar end customers.
• Clarke Energy: Global distributed power and gas-engine specialist supplying cogeneration solutions to landfill and mine-gas projects, overlapping with Green Gas on power generation from recovered methane.
• EnviTec Biogas: Larger German player in biogas plant construction and operation, with adjacent technology for converting landfill/biogas into electricity and heat — overlapping but broader portfolio than Green Gas.

Others

• Fluence Energy: Although focused on battery storage, Fluence competes for distributed energy spend and could increasingly undercut small-scale gas-to-power economics — a thematic adjacency rather than direct competitor.
• INNIO (Jenbacher): OEM of Jenbacher gas engines commonly used in landfill-gas and mine-gas-to-power plants — an enabling equipment supplier rather than direct competitor, but integral to the value chain Green Gas operates in.

Regional players

• Energy Developments (EDL Group): Australia-headquartered operator of landfill-gas-to-energy and mine-gas projects globally, directly comparable in business model but serving a different primary geography.

Direct peers

• HoSt Group: Netherlands-based biogas and landfill-gas-to-energy project developer building and operating integrated plants, closely comparable to Green Gas on landfill and lean-gas utilization.
• Carbotech: German specialist in landfill gas extraction, upgrading and utilization, overlapping with Green Gas's landfill-gas product line and customer segment.
• DMT GmbH & Co. KG: German engineering and consulting firm with deep mine-gas and degassing expertise, directly comparable to Green Gas on coal mine methane extraction, treatment and utilization services.
• Martin GmbH: German environmental engineering firm offering landfill gas collection and utilization systems, comparable in customer base (landfill operators) and integrated solution offering.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat4 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights6 records

Customer concentration

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Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles2 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds1 record

Investors1 record

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M&A1 record

Investments

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