# Strategic Resource Planning for Sustainable Biogas Integration in Hybrid Renewable Energy Systems
## 5 Conclusions  
This study highlights the critical role of biogas production in hybrid renewable energy systems, emphasizing the importance of optimizing biomass logistics and storage management. By examining variations in biomass input, storage capacity, and energy demand, the research demonstrates how strategic resource planning can stabilize supply, minimize unmet demand, and reduce dependence on supplementary energy sources. Biogas proves essential in balancing the intermittency of solar and wind energy, ensuring a steady energy supply under varying conditions. The analysis also underscores the significance of biomass availability and storage capacity in enhancing system resilience, particularly during seasonal fluctuations and demand surges. Scenario testing reveals the system's ability to address regular and emergency conditions, allowing operators to anticipate shortfalls and proactively adjust resource utilization. However, challenges such as inconsistent biomass supply and suboptimal storage conditions highlight the need for practical solutions in real-world applications. Future research should expand optimization efforts to encompass the entire energy system. Ensuring optimally sized components--such as solar panels, wind turbines, biogas reactors, and storage facilities--can enhance overall efficiency and reliability. Adaptive models leveraging real-time data could further enable dynamic adjustments to biogas production and storage based on live fluctuations in biomass supply, demand, and renewable availability. Such advancements would streamline logistics, reduce biogas release, and improve energy availability, paving the way for a robust and flexible hybrid energy system that meets diverse operational requirements. Planning supply chains around these optimized parameters further strengthens energy security and system performance. This study's findings also have implications for making and future research. From a policy perspective, the results highlight the importance of coupling logistical optimization with renewable energy production--particularly in rural hybrid systems with abundant biomass resources. Policymakers could leverage these insights to design frameworks and incentives (e.g., subsidies for advanced logistical technologies) that encourage the co-development of biogas infrastructure alongside local agricultural operations, ensuring more sustainable energy access and rural development. In terms of future research, there is significant potential to explore adaptive control systems that harness real-time data to optimize biogas production and storage and investigate the model's scalability in larger or more dynamic energy networks. Additionally, emerging technologies such as blockchain offer new avenues for improving supply chain transparency and traceability in biomass sourcing and distribution. By pursuing these directions, subsequent work can extend the applicability of the approach, fostering more resilient and sustainable renewable energy systems. Conceptualization, C.R.-B. ; data curation, C.R.-B., C.R.-P. and D.D.-C.; formal analysis, P.M.; funding acquisition, C.R.-P.; investigation, P.M.; methodology, P.M.; project administration, G.E.-E.; resources, G.E.-E. and D.D.-C.; software, P.M.; supervision, C.R.-P. and G.E.-E.; validation, C.R.-B., C.R.-P. and G.E.-E.; writing--original draft, P.M.; writing--review and editing, C.R.-B. and G.E.-E. All authors have read and agreed to the published version of the manuscript. This project received funding from the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme under grant agreement No. 101000470 (Natural and Synthetic Microbial Communities for Sustainable Production of Optimised Biogas--Micro4 Biogas). Not applicable. All mean values used in the study have been presented in the manuscript, but the complete recorded data are unavailable due to privacy restrictions. This work has been developed with the help of the Universitat Politecnica de Valencia.