This introductory chapter argues that community-based technologies, such as biogas, are often promoted and implemented with a technocratic approach that overlooks important social values, traditions, and community dynamics. The success of biogas projects is typically viewed through the lens of technologists, planners, governments, and engineers, who are considered essential to completing the entire biogas construction cycle. In this context, the concept of governmentality is employed as an analytical framework to critically examine the role of these actors in the development of biogas technology. This perspective highlights the influence of governmental authority, alongside technocratic players, in shaping collective behaviors, attitudes, and ways of thinking, guiding the community to align with the government's expectations or objectives. While the government utilizes the issue of climate change mitigation to motivate regional and local authorities to boost biogas production, ethnographic data and fieldwork reveal that community social values and long-standing traditions continue to impact decision-making and the sustainability of biogas technology.