BiogasMatch
A marketplace and revenue-forecasting platform that helps wastewater plants, landfills, and farms monetize stranded biogas by matching them to nearby off-takers — RNG pipelines, chemical plants, district heat — before they flare it.
operations managers at mid-size municipal wastewater plants, landfill operators, and dairy/livestock farms with installed but underused biogas capture
- Live flare-vs-sell calculator that shows the dollar value of what's being flared on any given day at any given flow rate
- Off-taker matcher with a 50/100/250-mile radius filter and pricing benchmark per MMBtu or RNG RIN
- Pre-built RFP and term-sheet templates so a small operator can negotiate without hiring a broker
- State-level permit and LCFS / RIN credit helper that flags compliance steps before any sale closes
The source page states the US produces enough biogas for $20bn/year in chemicals and 60% is flared or wasted; Rise Reforming's pilot shows the chemistry works, but the actual underused asset sits at thousands of small operators with no matching layer.
American Biogas Council cites 2,500+ active U.S. biogas sites and 17,000+ potential projects with 'historic growth phase' framing; Rise Reforming's $20bn/yr and 60% flared figure is corroborated by YC partner materials, signaling real underused supply at thousands of small operators.New Biogas Data, Polling Show Untapped Opportunity and Public Support for Converting Waste into Energy ↗Rise Reforming | Y Combinator ↗
No dedicated SaaS-style biogas-to-off-taker matching platform surfaced in search; the space is dominated by EPC firms, gas upgrading vendors, and informal brokers (BP/Shell etc.), leaving an unoccupied 'marketplace layer' but with adjacent incumbents that could easily extend.Rise Reforming | Y Combinator ↗Biogas Industry Market Snapshot | American Biogas Council ↗
Buyers are large utilities/chemical plants used to long procurement cycles; small municipal wastewater and dairy operators have thin OpEx budgets. Take-rate on multi-year off-take contracts is plausible but hard to capture, and willingness-to-pay for software alone is unproven in this industrial vertical.United States Biogas Flare System Market: Key Highlights ↗Biogas Industry Market Snapshot | American Biogas Council ↗
Decarbonization mandates, EPA methane rules, IRA-related credits (45Q/45V/RFS-RNG), and ongoing chemical-supply-chain reshoring all push biogas utilization forward for 10+ years; ABC describes 'historic growth phase' for the industry.New Biogas Data, Polling Show Untapped Opportunity and Public Support for Converting Waste into Energy ↗
Classic two-sided cold start: must onboard fragmented, conservative municipal/agricultural suppliers AND large slow-moving off-takers (pipeline operators, chemical plants); forecasting component is tractable but the marketplace itself faces long industrial sales cycles and incumbent brokers.Technology | Rise Reforming ↗