Reverion
Reverion’s fuel cells convert biogas from waste into clean electricity while capturing both methane and CO₂.
- Contracted tons
- 96,000
- Track
- Offtake - 2025
- Total contract value
- $41.1M
- Location
- Eresing, Germany
- Delivery timeline
- 2027 – 2030
The approach
Reverion’s process starts with plants naturally capturing CO₂, which ends up as biomass like manure, crop waste, and food scraps. Farmers collect this biomass waste and feed it into anaerobic digesters to produce biogas—a mix of roughly 60% methane and 40% CO₂.
Reverion’s fuel cells tap into these existing anaerobic digesters, converting the methane into electricity, and producing a pure CO₂ stream as a byproduct. The CO₂ stream is then liquefied and transported for permanent storage in geological formations.
The case for Reverion
Their approach could remove hundreds of millions of tons of CO₂ annually by 2040. There are over 120,000 biogas sites worldwide. Using IEA projections for biogas from manure, crop residues, and municipal solid waste, the theoretical carbon removal potential could reach more than 2 gigatons annually by 2040. Reverion could capture a portion of that, considering other biomass carbon removal and storage (BiCRS) approaches in use.
Reverion captures all carbon in biogas, not just the CO₂ portion. Current approaches to biogas carbon removal only capture carbon from the CO₂ portion of biogas, which is less than 50% by volume. Reverion’s process effectively doubles the carbon removal potential from the same amount of biogas.
It achieves 74% fuel-to-electricity conversion efficiency, among the highest in electricity generation globally. Reverion’s approach simultaneously avoids emissions from fossil fuels while achieving permanent carbon removal. Their high efficiency means more electricity is produced for a given amount of biomass waste, providing more economic value to farmers with biogas facilities.
The approach minimizes methane leakage. By converting methane to electricity on-site, Reverion avoids the leaks that can occur during renewable natural gas upgrading and transportation through gas networks—an important factor given methane's high global warming potential.
The technology is poised for rapid expansion with strong market demand. With 60 signed pre-orders and 120 letters of intent, Reverion's value proposition to biogas operators is economically superior to internal combustion engines or renewable natural gas upgrading because of their high electrical efficiency and ability to run in reverse to produce hydrogen.
Pricing and delivery
The total offtake amount from Frontier buyers is $41M for 96,000 tons. The price accounts for both the removal itself as well as measuring, reporting and verifying (MRV) that each ton is safely and permanently stored.
