Pika Energy, the female biomethane platform for gentle sustainability

“Pika” is the onomatopoeia that the Japanese use to indicate lightning, flash, spark. Pika is also the name that a group of women he chose for the first aggregation platform of plants for the production of biogas and biomethane born in Italy. Long Energy has been at the forefront of the European biogas market since its inception and since 2023 has been among the main players in the energy landscape.

“Our secret – he reveals Simona BefaniCEO of Pika Energy – is a synergistic approach with agricultural communities, and we boast a pipeline of more than 30 biogas and biomethane projects in Italy as well as active partnerships in Spain, the United Kingdom and France. We are driven by a value system that leaves no room for fictitious labels or equally artificial roles attributed to women to improve the reputation of companies. Our company works because we are constantly engaged in a continuous effort aimed at achieving excellent results. We continue to grow our project portfolio through expansion into new markets across Europe to help achieve the REPowerEU goals by 2030.”

In parallel with the development of the internal pipeline of projects (greenfield), Pika Energy offers options development and design on behalf of third-party investors, including late stage development opportunities. Pika Energy also redesigns biogas sites that have reached their useful life or the incentive system is expiring. It does so by finding a way to access new incentive mechanisms linked to the production of biomethane, thus further reducing the carbon intensity of the plants and their related industries and extending the upgrading of the entire biogas production to biomethane or Bio-LNG. With the technical and operational expertise of the professionals who work there, Pika Energy redesigns existing plants and restructures their processes and contracts for a successful long-term future.

Soul of Pika Energy, in addition to Simona Befani, I am Sara Di Mariothe first woman to have held the role of Operations Director for the largest energy client portfolio in Europe; Stefania Zuccarinowho has made his passion for the management and implementation of projects in the renewable and non-renewable energy sector his profession; Monica Foschispecialized in corporate finance, professional in economic-financial business development, with experience also in the public sector.

The Pika Energy board coined the term gentle sustainability inspired by the values ​​of gentle leadership. When we talk to Pika Energy about renewable energy we do so with a kind, never aggressive approach. Because Pika Energy is also and above all respect for authentic principles, thanks to which this company manages to make a difference on the market: theattention to the individual in the workplace; there sustainability, a key principle to guide the energy transition. Pika Energy has built partnerships and stable relationships with the best technology suppliers aware of how the transition towards green energy depends on high-performance solutions for gas and fuel processing.