RNG Girls
Claim This Podcastby Lisa Kitt
Podcast Overview
<p>Renewable Natural Gas is scaling fast, but the real story sits behind the press releases.</p><p></p><p>On RNG Girls, we get into the people, projects, and politics shaping the RNG and biogas market, with honest conversations on what’s being built, what’s being funded, what’s being held up, and what’s coming next.</p><p></p><p>Hosted by <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://uk.linkedin.com/in/lisa-kitt-0ab28521" target="_blank">Lisa Kitt</a> - Managing Director of <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://dahliarecruitment.com/" target="_blank">Dahlia Recruitment</a>, alongside rotating female co-hosts from across the RNG market, the podcast brings together the voices driving the sector forward: from executives and investors to policy leaders, developers, and operators on the ground.</p><p></p><p>Expect practical, unfiltered insight on:<br />🔹 Policy shifts and what they really mean for delivery<br />🔹 Funding, growth, and where projects win or stall<br />🔹 Development, infrastructure, and the realities of scaling<br />🔹 The people behind the decisions shaping the industry</p><p></p><p>If you work in RNG, biogas, or the wider energy transition and you want to understand what’s actually happening in the market, this is for you.</p><p></p><p>New episodes released bi-weekly.</p>
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July 13, 2026
Art of Project Finance with Chris Negus and Andrew Rice
<p>This week on RNG Girls, Lisa Kitt and Skye Austin are joined by Chris Negus and Andrew Rice for a practical conversation on one of the RNG industry’s most important, and often least understood areas: project finance.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>Together, they explain what makes an RNG project investable — and why even the strongest technical project cannot produce a molecule without funding.</p><p></p><p>The conversation covers:</p><p>🔹 How project finance differs from corporate finance<br />🔹 Why lenders assess the team as closely as the project<br />🔹 The importance of feedstock security, offtake, contracts, operators, counterparties and sponsor experience<br />🔹 Why trust, transparency and relationships matter as much as spreadsheets<br />🔹 Why technically strong projects can still be unfinanceable<br />🔹 How weak assumptions are exposed in difficult markets<br />🔹 How developers should approach optionality, molecule value, SAF, marine fuel, bioCO2, carbon capture and future pathways</p><p></p><p>This episode is for developers, operators, investors, lenders, farmers, technology providers and anyone interested in how RNG projects move from concept to infrastructure.</p><p></p><p>Before the steel, concrete, compressors, membranes or pipelines arrive, someone must believe in the project enough to fund it.</p><p></p><p>Chapters:</p><p>00:53 Introduction to RNG and Project Financing<br />06:01 Trust, Leadership and Building Lender Confidence<br />08:40 What Makes an RNG Project Fundable<br />14:12 Managing Risk in a Selective Lending Market<br />20:05 Common Project Finance Pitfalls<br />27:54 Project Design, CO₂ Capture and Value Maximization<br />43:46 Emerging Markets and Flexible Development Models<br />01:03:35 Capital Stacks, Market Shifts and the Lightning Round</p><p></p><p>Host: Lisa Kitt</p><p>Founder, RNG Girls | Managing Director, Dahlia Recruitment</p><p>LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-kitt-0ab28521/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-kitt-0ab28521/</a></p><p> </p><p>Co-host: Skye Austin</p><p>Sales Director (RNG & Compression), Stark Tech | Co-Vice Chair of the American Biogas Council</p><p>LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/skye-austin-506b1075" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/skye-austin-506b1075</a></p><p></p><p>Guest: Chris Negus</p><p>Managing Partner & CEO, Global NRG Advisory</p><p>LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-negus-global-nrg/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/chris-negus-global-nrg/</a></p><p></p><p>Guest: Andrew Rice</p><p>Managing Partner & COO, Global NRG Advisory</p><p>LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-rice-246b53144/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/andrew-rice-246b53144/</a></p><p></p><p>Learn more about Global NRG Advisory here: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://globalnrgadvisory.co.uk/" target="_blank">https://globalnrgadvisory.co.uk/</a></p><p></p><p>RNG Girls is a podcast on the people, projects and politics of Renewable Natural Gas.</p><p></p><p>🔔 Subscribe for more conversations from across the RNG industry.</p>
June 30, 2026
Taking Biogas Global: 10 Years of the World Biogas Association with Charlotte Morton OBE
<p>This week on <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://rng-girls.com/" target="_blank">RNG Girls</a>, Lisa Kitt and Skye Austin are joined by Charlotte Morton OBE, Chief Executive of the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.worldbiogasassociation.org/" target="_blank">World Biogas Association</a>, for a special bonus episode celebrating 10 years of WBA and the upcoming World Biogas Expo / ADBA Conference.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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?</p><p></p><p>The conversation gets practical:</p><p>🔹 Why biogas has moved from a niche technology to a recognised global climate and energy solution<br />🔹 How WBA has helped raise the profile of biogas with governments, investors and international organisations<br />🔹 Why visibility and fragmentation were two of the biggest problems the industry needed to solve<br />🔹 What different countries and markets can learn from each other as the sector grows<br />🔹 Why policy certainty, permitting, skilled people, public understanding and digestate still matter everywhere<br />🔹 Why the next decade is not about proving biogas belongs in the conversation, but scaling it fast enough</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p><b>Guest</b>: Charlotte Morton OBE</p><p>Chief Executive of the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.worldbiogasassociation.org/" target="_blank">World Biogas Association</a></p><p>LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlotte-morton-obe-1a0a322/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/charlotte-morton-obe-1a0a322/</a></p><p></p><p><b>Host: </b>Lisa Kitt</p><p>Managing Director at Dahlia Recruitment</p><p>LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-kitt-0ab28521/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-kitt-0ab28521/</a></p><p></p><p><b>Co-host: </b>Skye Austin</p><p>RNG Sales Director at Stark Tech</p><p>Board Member of the American Biogas Council</p><p>LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/skye-austin-506b1075/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/skye-austin-506b1075/</a></p><p></p><p>RNG Girls is a podcast on the people, projects and politics of Renewable Natural Gas.</p><p></p><p>🔔 Subscribe for more conversations from across the RNG industry.</p>
June 22, 2026
After Biogas Americas: Where Biogas Goes Next with Bryan Sievers and Bernie Sheff
<p>This week on <b>RNG Girls</b>, Lisa Kitt and Skye Austin are joined by Bryan Sievers and Bernie Sheff for a <b>post-</b><a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://biogasamericas.com/" target="_blank"><b>Biogas Americas</b></a><b> conversation</b> on where the biogas and RNG industry really is right now.</p><p></p><p>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 <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://americanbiogascouncil.org/" target="_blank">the American Biogas Council</a> after helping lead the organisation through 14 years of growth and industry evolution, and is now stepping into the Chair of the <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://unitedbiogasalliance.org/" target="_blank">United Biogas Alliance</a>.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p><b>Key takeaways</b></p><p>🔹 Why Biogas Americas felt like a pulse check for an industry moving into maturity<br />🔹 How operational discipline, financing, offtake and resilience are shaping the next phase<br />🔹 Why electricity is coming back into the conversation, especially around data centres, grid reliability and energy security<br />🔹 Why smaller opportunities, landfills, dairies, hog farms and poultry facilities could matter more than people realise<br />🔹 Why marine offtake and a global RNG price point could change the scale of the industry<br />🔹 What the American Biogas Council needs to become as the industry grows into a connected “big tent”</p><p></p><p>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.</p><p></p><p>Host: <b>Lisa Kitt</b></p><p>Founder, RNG Girls | Managing Director, Dahlia Recruitment</p><p>LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-kitt-0ab28521/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/lisa-kitt-0ab28521/</a></p><p> </p><p>Co-host: <b>Skye Austin</b></p><p>Sales Director (RNG & Compression), Stark Tech | Co-Vice Chair of the American Biogas Council</p><p>LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/skye-austin-506b1075" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/skye-austin-506b1075</a></p><p></p><p>Guest: <b>Bernie Sheff</b></p><p>Associate Technical Consultant at Burns and McDonnell</p><p>Chair of the United Biogas Alliance</p><p>Partner at US Renewable Energy Development Capital Inc.</p><p>LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernardsheff/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/bernardsheff/</a></p><p></p><p>Guest: <b>Bryan Sievers</b></p><p>Director of Government Relations at Roeslein Renewables</p><p>LinkedIn: <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://www.linkedin.com/in/beefbiomassandenergy/" target="_blank">https://www.linkedin.com/in/beefbiomassandenergy/</a></p><p></p><p>RNG Girls is a podcast on the people, projects and politics of Renewable Natural Gas.</p>
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- What is RNG Girls?
<p>Renewable Natural Gas is scaling fast, but the real story sits behind the press releases.</p><p></p><p>On RNG Girls, we get into the people, projects, and politics shaping the RNG and biogas market, with honest conversations on what’s being built, what’s being funded, what’s being held up, and what’s coming next.</p><p></p><p>Hosted by <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://uk.linkedin.com/in/lisa-kitt-0ab28521" target="_blank">Lisa Kitt</a> - Managing Director of <a rel="noopener noreferrer nofollow" href="https://dahliarecruitment.com/" target="_blank">Dahlia Recruitment</a>, alongside rotating female co-hosts from across the RNG market, the podcast brings together the voices driving the sector forward: from executives and investors to policy leaders, developers, and operators on the ground.</p><p></p><p>Expect practical, unfiltered insight on:<br />🔹 Policy shifts and what they really mean for delivery<br />🔹 Funding, growth, and where projects win or stall<br />🔹 Development, infrastructure, and the realities of scaling<br />🔹 The people behind the decisions shaping the industry</p><p></p><p>If you work in RNG, biogas, or the wider energy transition and you want to understand what’s actually happening in the market, this is for you.</p><p></p><p>New episodes released bi-weekly.</p> - How often does this podcast release new episodes?
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