Chris Negus is Managing Partner & Chief Executive Officer, with more than 10 years’ experience across banking, commercial lending, business development, M&A and biogas project finance. He has helped facilitate over £160m of debt and led ten M&A transactions worth £400m.

Andrew Rice is Managing Partner & Chief Operating Officer, with more than 30 years’ experience in retail and commercial finance, including leadership roles at HSBC, NatWest, Citibank and BMW. He has refinanced over £175m and brings extensive relationship management and restructuring expertise.

Together, they explain what makes an RNG project investable — and why even the strongest technical project cannot produce a molecule without funding.

The conversation covers:

🔹 How project finance differs from corporate finance
🔹 Why lenders assess the team as closely as the project
🔹 The importance of feedstock security, offtake, contracts, operators, counterparties and sponsor experience
🔹 Why trust, transparency and relationships matter as much as spreadsheets
🔹 Why technically strong projects can still be unfinanceable
🔹 How weak assumptions are exposed in difficult markets
🔹 How developers should approach optionality, molecule value, SAF, marine fuel, bioCO2, carbon capture and future pathways

This episode is for developers, operators, investors, lenders, farmers, technology providers and anyone interested in how RNG projects move from concept to infrastructure.

Before the steel, concrete, compressors, membranes or pipelines arrive, someone must believe in the project enough to fund it.

Chapters:

00:53 Introduction to RNG and Project Financing
06:01 Trust, Leadership and Building Lender Confidence
08:40 What Makes an RNG Project Fundable
14:12 Managing Risk in a Selective Lending Market
20:05 Common Project Finance Pitfalls
27:54 Project Design, CO₂ Capture and Value Maximization
43:46 Emerging Markets and Flexible Development Models
01:03:35 Capital Stacks, Market Shifts and the Lightning Round

Host: Lisa Kitt

Founder, RNG Girls | Managing Director, Dahlia Recruitment

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-kitt-0ab28521/

Co-host: Skye Austin

Sales Director (RNG & Compression), Stark Tech | Co-Vice Chair of the American Biogas Council

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skye-austin-506b1075

Guest: Chris Negus

Managing Partner & CEO, Global NRG Advisory

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-negus-global-nrg/

Guest: Andrew Rice

Managing Partner & COO, Global NRG Advisory

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-rice-246b53144/

Learn more about Global NRG Advisory here: https://globalnrgadvisory.co.uk/

RNG Girls is a podcast on the people, projects and politics of Renewable Natural Gas.

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Charlotte has spent nearly two decades working in biogas and has helped build the World Biogas Association from its launch at COP22 in Marrakesh in 2016 into a global voice for the industry.

This episode takes the conversation beyond local markets and looks at biogas through a global lens, as a climate solution, methane mitigation tool, renewable energy source, food production support system, waste management solution, and driver of circular economy policy.

Charlotte shares how the conversation around biogas has changed over the last decade, from asking people to take the industry seriously, to a much more urgent question: how quickly can it scale?

The conversation gets practical:

🔹 Why biogas has moved from a niche technology to a recognised global climate and energy solution
🔹 How WBA has helped raise the profile of biogas with governments, investors and international organisations
🔹 Why visibility and fragmentation were two of the biggest problems the industry needed to solve
🔹 What different countries and markets can learn from each other as the sector grows
🔹 Why policy certainty, permitting, skilled people, public understanding and digestate still matter everywhere
🔹 Why the next decade is not about proving biogas belongs in the conversation, but scaling it fast enough

It’s a strong listen for anyone working in biogas, RNG, energy, policy, climate, waste, agriculture, or infrastructure and anyone who wants to understand why biogas is becoming part of the global conversation on methane, energy security and circular economy.

Guest: Charlotte Morton OBE

Chief Executive of the World Biogas Association

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlotte-morton-obe-1a0a322/

Host: Lisa Kitt

Managing Director at Dahlia Recruitment

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-kitt-0ab28521/

Co-host: Skye Austin

RNG Sales Director at Stark Tech

Board Member of the American Biogas Council

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skye-austin-506b1075/

RNG Girls is a podcast on the people, projects and politics of Renewable Natural Gas.

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Bryan is a farmer, RNG developer, policy advocate, and a leading voice in rural agriculture and DC. Bernie recently wrapped his time as Chair of the American Biogas Council after helping lead the organisation through 14 years of growth and industry evolution, and is now stepping into the Chair of the United Biogas Alliance.

Together, they reflect on the energy coming out of Biogas Americas, why the event felt less like “gold rush” growth and more like operational maturity, and what the conversations on the floor revealed about the next phase of the market.

The discussion gets into the harder, more practical questions now facing the industry: operational discipline, financing, offtake, PFAS, electricity, data centres, distributed energy, marine fuels, and the need to keep widening the “big tent” for biogas.

Bernie also shares why the next phase is about expanding offtake and widening the opportunity, from small landfills, dairies, hog farms and poultry facilities to marine fuels, electricity, fertiliser, air quality and water protection. His view is clear: the industry is still building its foundation, but the demand is coming.

Key takeaways

🔹 Why Biogas Americas felt like a pulse check for an industry moving into maturity
🔹 How operational discipline, financing, offtake and resilience are shaping the next phase
🔹 Why electricity is coming back into the conversation, especially around data centres, grid reliability and energy security
🔹 Why smaller opportunities, landfills, dairies, hog farms and poultry facilities could matter more than people realise
🔹 Why marine offtake and a global RNG price point could change the scale of the industry
🔹 What the American Biogas Council needs to become as the industry grows into a connected “big tent”

It’s a strong listen for anyone tracking where biogas and renewable natural gas go next, beyond the headlines, beyond the hype and into the harder conversations that will shape long-term trust, delivery and scale.

Host: Lisa Kitt

Founder, RNG Girls | Managing Director, Dahlia Recruitment

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-kitt-0ab28521/

Co-host: Skye Austin

Sales Director (RNG & Compression), Stark Tech | Co-Vice Chair of the American Biogas Council

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skye-austin-506b1075

Guest: Bernie Sheff

Associate Technical Consultant at Burns and McDonnell

Chair of the United Biogas Alliance

Partner at US Renewable Energy Development Capital Inc.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernardsheff/

Guest: Bryan Sievers

Director of Government Relations at Roeslein Renewables

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/beefbiomassandenergy/

RNG Girls is a podcast on the people, projects and politics of Renewable Natural Gas.

In this special live episode recorded at the Women in Biogas & RNG Luncheon (presented by DTE Energy), RNG Girls hosts Lisa Kitt and Skye Austin are joined by Cyn S. French, MacKenzie Bernhard, and Christie Ings, P. Eng. for an honest conversation about what it takes to build a career and stay in it, in a fast-moving, often male-dominated industry.

The room was full of connection and community, but the discussion stayed grounded: discipline, resilience, self-care, real support, and the leadership habits that matter when the market feels uncertain.

Key takeaways

🔹 Why “mental strength and discipline” are leadership strategies, not optional extras

🔹 The role of team, time-management, and showing up for others (especially when you’re on the road)

🔹 Why emotional self-care matters, and why being human doesn’t make you less credible

🔹 What real support looks like (and the behaviours that build trust when someone isn’t in the room)

Host: Lisa Kitt

Founder, RNG Girls | Managing Director, Dahlia Recruitment

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-kitt-0ab28521/

Co-host: Skye Austin

Sales Director (RNG & Compression), Stark Tech | Co-Vice Chair of the American Biogas Council

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skye-austin-506b1075

Guest: Cyn S. French

Co-Founder, LF Bioenergy

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/cynsfrench/

Guest: MacKenzie Bernhard

Senior Technical Sales Engineer, AB Energy

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mackenzie-bernhard/

Guest: Christie Ings, P. Eng.

VP RNG Operations, Clean Energy

https://www.linkedin.com/in/christie-ings-p-eng-65716088/

RNG Girls is a podcast on the people, projects, and politics of Renewable Natural Gas.

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Paul shares how he found his way into biogas through water and wastewater, project delivery, development, and project finance, before becoming a founding member of the American Biogas Council and building a national view of what makes projects succeed (and what makes them struggle).

We also talk about Biogas TV and why video storytelling has become such a powerful way to make the industry more understandable, not just in the US, but globally.

From there, the episode gets practical: what biogas actually is, why digesters are “living systems,” how landfill gas differs from digester gas, and why the industry still has work to do around perception, safety, and project timelines.

Key takeaways

🔹 Biogas explained simply: waste in → methane + CO₂ out, with energy and fertiliser benefits

🔹 Why digesters behave like living systems (and why overfeeding/underfeeding matters)

🔹 Digesters vs landfill gas: efficiency, methane concentration, and why cleanup differs

🔹 The biggest misconception: the “odor/ick factor” and what being a “good neighbour” really means

🔹 Giants of Biogas: why the industry should celebrate the people driving it forward

Host:

Lisa Kitt

Founder, RNG Girls | Managing Director, Dahlia Recruitment

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-kitt-0ab28521/

Co-host:

Skye Austin

Sales Director (RNG & Compression), Stark Tech | Co-Vice Chair of the American Biogas Council

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skye-austin-506b1075

Guest:

Paul Greene

Advisor to the Biogas RNG Industry

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/paul-greene-2531764/

RNG Girls is a podcast on the people, projects, and politics of Renewable Natural Gas.

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Bernie reflects on how his journey into biogas began with an environmental justice issue in Michigan and how that early experience shaped a career dedicated to turning waste into energy, improving communities, and helping build the industry from the ground up.

The conversation explores why this current moment feels so important for biogas, the global opportunity emerging around maritime fuel and low-CI energy, and why BIOGAS AMERICAS matters more than ever in a market that is being tested. Bernie also shares what makes the biogas sector different: its grit, its openness, and the strength of the community behind it.

This first episode sets the tone for RNG Girls:  conversations about the people, projects, and momentum shaping the future of biogas and renewable natural gas.

Key takeaways

🔹 How Bernie’s first digester project solved a real environmental justice problem and changed the course of his career
🔹 Why the maritime opportunity is creating major momentum for the biogas industry globally
🔹 Why biogas is not just about energy, but also fertilizer, resilience, and food security
🔹 What makes BIOGAS AMERICAS such an important event for operators, developers, policymakers, and newcomers
🔹 Why American Biogas Council membership matters, especially in a challenging market
🔹 How community, collaboration, and “doers” continue to drive the industry forward

BIOGAS AMERICAS
If you’re heading to BIOGAS AMERICAS, come and find us at Stark Tech booth 213,  this will be the RNG Girls home base during the event.

Official website: https://biogasamericas.com/

Host:
Lisa Kitt

Managing Director at Dahlia Recruitment

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-kitt-0ab28521/

Co-host:

Skye Austin

RNG Sales Director at Stark Tech

Board Member of the American Biogas Council

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/skye-austin-506b1075/

Guest:
Bernie Sheff

Associate Technical Consultant at Burns and McDonnell

Chairman of the American Biogas Council

Partner at US Renewable Energy Development Capital Inc.

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernardsheff/

Key chapters:

00:00 Introduction to Biogas and RNG
02:23 Bernie’s Journey into Biogas
06:45 Why Biogas Has Momentum Now
10:43 Why BIOGAS AMERICAS Matters
14:10 Policy, Advocacy and Industry Progress
19:44 What Makes BIOGAS AMERICAS Different
25:35 The Future of Biogas Growth
32:37 Community, Transparency and Engagement
43:00 ABC Membership Benefits and Industry Collaboration
48:10 Why You Should Attend BIOGAS AMERICAS

RNG Girls is a podcast about the people shaping the future of biogas and renewable natural gas.

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