What data actually exists about this industry, who typically holds it, at what granularity, and how obtainable it is. Public means openly published; purchasable is sold by a vendor; partnership needs a bilateral deal; exclusive is effectively locked up by one party.
| Data category | Who holds it | Granularity | Access |
|---|---|---|---|
| registry/licensing/permits | Environmental permitting authorities (IED/industrial emissions permits), energy regulators issuing gas production/supply licences… | Per installation / per licence, updated on issue or renewal | public |
| employment & workforce | National statistical offices (structural business statistics by NACE), sector associations (European Biogas Association), operators' HR… | Annual headcount and wage aggregates by NACE class and region; per-site… | public |
| financial filings | National company registers and financial-statement databases (Orbis, Companies House, Bundesanzeiger), listed parent groups' annual… | Annual per legal entity; segment-level for listed groups | public |
| incident/safety/claims | National occupational safety and process-safety regulators (Seveso reporting authorities, HSE), fire services, insurers and loss adjusters… | Per incident record; annual aggregates by site or sector | public |
| waste & emissions | Operators reporting under EU ETS and E-PRTR, national environment agencies, methane-leak measurement providers and satellite monitoring… | Per installation per year for ETS/E-PRTR; per-site per-overpass for satellite… | public |
| pricing | Gas hub exchanges and price reporting agencies (ICE, EEX, Argus, Platts, ICIS) for reference gas prices; biomethane and green-gas… | Per trade / daily index per hub or certificate type | purchasable |
| geospatial/movement | National TSO/DSO grid-entry point registries, biomethane plant location databases held by trade associations and consultancies, permitting… | Per plant / per grid injection point coordinates and capacity | purchasable |
| energy consumption | Plant operators and their electricity/heat suppliers; metering data from DSOs; parasitic-load figures reported in permits and… | Per site per half-hour/monthly kWh | partnership |
| logistics & freight movement | Feedstock haulage contractors and waste collection firms, LNG/bio-LNG and CNG trucking operators, weighbridge systems at plants | Per delivery/shipment (tonnage, origin, date) | partnership |
| production output | Gas plant operators (biomethane/biogas upgrading plants, coke-oven gas and syngas producers), national gas transmission/distribution system… | Per plant per hour/day for operators and TSOs; monthly or annual national… | partnership |
| quality & compliance testing | Plant operators and network operators at grid-entry units, accredited gas-quality laboratories, calibration/metrology bodies | Per sample / per continuous analyser reading per entry point; calorific value… | partnership |
| transactional/sales | Producing companies and their offtakers (gas suppliers, industrial users, fuel-station operators for bio-CNG), certificate registries… | Per contract / per monthly delivery nomination; per certificate transfer | exclusive |
| inventory & supply chain | Plant operators (feedstock stocks, chemical/consumable inventories), feedstock aggregators and waste-management partners supplying substrate | Per site daily/weekly stock levels; per feedstock delivery | exclusive |
| sensor/IoT | Plant operators' DCS/SCADA systems, upgrading-technology vendors providing remote monitoring (e.g. membrane/PSA skid suppliers), grid-entry… | Per tag per second/minute (flow, pressure, CH4/CO2/H2S content, temperature) | exclusive |
| maintenance & asset condition | Plant operators' CMMS/EAM systems, O&M contractors and OEM service organisations (compressor, upgrading unit, CHP suppliers) | Per work order / per asset, with downtime and failure history | exclusive |
Compiled by the TriData research system from public registers, industry structure and regulatory reporting obligations; refreshed as the underlying catalogue grows. Look up the code itself in the NACE code finder.