TY  - JOUR
T1  - Business Models for Sustainability of Biogas Technology
AU - Yousuf, Abu AU - Khan, Maksudur Rahman AU - Wahid, Zularisam Ab AU - Pirozzi, Domenico AU - Rahmaddulla, Sayed Radzi Bin 
JO  - The Social Sciences
VL  - 12
IS  - 4
SP  - 609
EP  - 616
PY  - 2017
DA  - 2001/08/19
SN  - 1818-5800
DO  - sscience.2017.609.616
UR  - https://makhillpublications.co/view-article.php?doi=sscience.2017.609.616
KW  - Biogas technology
KW  -business models
KW  -economic viability
KW  -skilled
KW  -financial
AB  - Biogas is such a solution which produces clean and renewable energy, reduces the need to import
fossil fuels, create jobs for skilled and unskilled persons and provides a new stream of income to farmers and
investors. For more sustainable development of this technology, policy-makers should reform the existing
institutional framework by reorganizing subsidies, motivating and attracting investor with flexible financial
conditions, liberalizing the management of gas grids and involving farmers in local projects. In most of the
cases, biogas projects become unsuccessful due to the lacking of financial attractiveness. Therefore, it is a great
challenge to find a proper mode of design and implementation of biogas installations that ensure participation,
ownership and responsibility of the final users and a sustainable financing mechanism. Community business
connectivity can have played an important role in stimulating and shaping the spread of biogas technology.
This study proposed a number of business models and micro-economic evaluation systems to calculate their
economic viability which could play role to improve the sustainability of the biogas technology.
ER  -