Patrizia’s Renergia has secured over 70 million euros ($81.4 million) in new senior debt financing from UniCredit to invest in Italy’s biomethane and bio-LNG sector.
According to a statement by Germany-based investment firm Patrizia, the transaction establishes a flexible, long-term capital structure to support both the conversion of existing biogas plants to biomethane production and select acquisitions to expand Renergia’s integrated renewable fuels network.
Once complete, the programme will enable Renergia to produce around 130 GWh of biomethane annually from approximately 230,000 tonnes of bio-waste and agricultural feedstock, thus strengthening its position as one of Italy’s leading circular-economy energy platforms, Patrizia said.
In addition, this transaction marks another milestone in Patrizia’s mid-market buy-and-build strategy, focused for nearly a decade on developing European platforms across the circular economy, including Saren Energy, Ecotermica Servizi, Renergia, Greenthesis, and Statkraft Varme, the company said.
Since Patrizia’s investment in Renergia in 2022, the company has delivered “strong” growth with the integration of four biogas production plants acquired in Italy’s Lombardy region in 2024 and 2025.
Once upgraded to biomethane, these assets will increase Renergia’s run-rate production capacity by more than 250 percent, consolidating its position as one of Italy’s most advanced renewable fuels platforms with on-grid bio-LNG liquefaction production, Patrizia said.
Together with Saren Energy and Statkraft Varme in Norway and Greenthesis in Italy, Renergia forms part of Patrizia’s growing European energy-from-waste portfolio, which drives energy recovery, waste valorisation, and circular-economy growth across key markets, the comany added.