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Methane Recovery Project Aben

Project type Methane mitigation
Location Netherlands
Project ID Verra: 335

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Project overview

The Methane Recovery Project Aben, Wanroij, North Brabant, The Netherlands captures methane from agricultural manure-management systems on participating farms in the Dutch agricultural heartland, before the gas can escape to the atmosphere. The methane is converted into less potent emissions or into usable biogas through controlled anaerobic digestion. The programme operates from facilities including Houbensteyn in Ysselsteyn (Limburg) and Aben in Wanroij (North Brabant), and is registered with Verra under VCS 335, with sister registrations 336 and 337 covering the wider programme.

The programme avoids an estimated 42,000 tCO₂e per year on average and processes thousands of tonnes of local agricultural and agro-industrial waste each year. Methodologies applied include AMS-III.D, AMS-I.C, and AMS-III.AO.

Community benefits

Supporting agrarian longevity: The programme helps Dutch family farms adapt to stringent EU environmental laws, creating a legal and sustainable pathway for modern waste management.
Regional energy independence: The thermal energy generated is fed into local heating systems or industrial applications, lowering regional dependence on imported fossil gas.
Advanced technical skills: The programme introduces sophisticated bio-energy operational engineering jobs into rural North Brabant and Limburg.

Environmental and biodiversity benefits

Odour and local air-pollution control: Closed anaerobic digesters eliminate the heavy odour pollution and local ammonia (NH₃) volatilisation traditional to open manure storage.
Water-table protection: Processing waste through a controlled industrial system eliminates the risk of nitrate leaching into local aquifers, protecting fragile Dutch water networks.
High-quality digestate as biofertiliser: The byproduct of the process is a nutrient-rich, sanitised organic digestate that replaces fossil-fuel-intensive chemical fertilisers on surrounding crop fields.

Project information

Location	Wanroij and Ysselsteyn, North Brabant and Limburg Provinces, Netherlands
Country	Netherlands
Developer	Houbensteyn and Aben (key facilities)
Type	Agricultural methane recovery and biogas generation (emission avoidance)
Methodology	AMS-III.D, AMS-I.C, AMS-III.AO
Registry listing	Verra VCS 335 (and sister registrations 336, 337)
Credit period	10 years (current vintage active through 31 May 2027)