presentation during the kick-off meeting of the EC IEE financed BIOEUParks project in April 2013

1. 23 Apr 2013
Philipp von Bothmer
Agency for Renewable Resources
(FNR)
4Biomass –
Putting Biomass into Action!

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Contents
• 4Biomass basic facts
• CENTRAL EUROPE Programme
• Project Partner
• Aims
• Project Activities
• Publications
• Events

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Project information
• Fostering the Sustainable Usage of Renewable Energy Sources
in Central Europe – Putting Biomass into Action!
• Duration: 48 months (December 2008 until November 2012)
• This project is implemented through the CENTRAL EUROPE
Programme co-financed by the ERDF (European Regional
Development Fund)

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CE countries and Project Partner

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Project Partner
• FNR Agency for Renewable Resources, Gülzow, Germany
• BMU, Federal Ministry for the Environment, Nature Conservation and
Nuclear Safety, Germany
• AEA, Austrian Energy Agency, Vienna, Austria
• AGH, University of Science and Technology, Krakow, Poland
• ApE, Energy Restructuring Agency, Ljubljana, Slovenia
• CZ Biom, Czech Biomass Association, Prague, Czech Republic
• EC, Energy Centre Hungary, Budapest, Hungary
• ENEA, Italian National Agency for New Technologies, Energy and
Sustainable Economic Development, Rome, Italy
• IEN, Institute of Power Engineering, Warsaw, Poland

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Associated Partner
• SEC Biomass, Ukraine
• Czech Ministry of Agriculture
• Italian Ministry of the Environment
• Slovenian Ministry of Agriculture

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Aim of the Project
 Promote and foster the sustainable
exploitation of biomass
throughout Central Europe (CE)
 Develop recommendations for a
joint and consistent policy
approach in the CE region
 Establish a Transnational
Network to support transnational
cooperation

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Activities to promote sustainable
bioenergy investments
Facilitate investments
 Preparation of studies for
potential biomass projects
 Organisation of workshops for
investors
 Preparation of pre-feasibility
studies for sustainable investment
projects
 Establishment of a Joint
Management Tool
Exchange best practise
 Set up of a database of
demoprojects
 Analyse of technology,
management approach and
biomass supply of demoprojects
 Organisation of study tours for
partners

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Best practise – Database for
demoprojects
• www.4biomass.eu/en/best-practice

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For example: Heating plant in
Pannonhalma /Hungary among other 25
demoprojects

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Country Studies - contents
• Overview of availability of biomass in CE region
• Overview of policies to promote biomass/RES in CE countries
– Energy strategies
– Biomass Action Plans
– Sustainable development strategies
– EU national targets 2020 (nREAP)
– National RES regulation
– Financial Support and Economic Incentives

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Conclusions from country studies
• CE region disposes of a considerable amount of available biomass
resources
• Biomass is a regional source and is best used in de-central systems
• Biomass offers potential for economic development in rural areas,
increasing employment opportunities and keeping value added within the
region
• Biomass is a limited resource and should be deployed only in the most
efficient way

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Trade Studies
• Contain overviews of the present situation of biomass and bioenergy
potential, production and trade flows within the CE region
• Challenge: currently no reliable data for biomass markets available for all
CE countries
• Focus of the study is lead on the markets and trade of pellets and biofuels

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Biomass Markets and Trade in CE
• Trade flows are hardly detectable on local and regional biomass markets –
no reliable data available
• Mainly local supply of biomass (forest and agricultural residues) from
individual suppliers such as public and private forest owners
• However, data are available for solid biomass (pellets, wood chips) and to
some extend for liquid biomass (biofuels)
• The data presented here are from different sources, prices have not been
considered for this study

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Summary from trade study
• Analysis of trade flows in CE region shows considerable intra-regional
trading activities
• Predominantly exports and imports to and from neighbouring countries
• Considerable amounts particularly of raw materials are imported from third
countries: Ukraine, Belarus, Russia
• Minor amounts (liquid biofuels) are imported from overseas

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Conclusions
• Biomass is the most important source for energy purposes among other
renewables in the CE region
• In all CE countries domestic biomass is supplemented by imports (biofuels,
solid biomass)
• Still, there is unused potential from unused agricultural areas, for i.e. short
rotation coppice
• Rapidly increasing pellet trade – brings up the discussion of extending the
sustainability standards for solid and gaseous biomass within the EU

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Stakeholder dialogue – consulting
bioenergy experts in the CE region
• In addition to country and trade studies, a comprehensive online
questionnaire had been conducted
– App. 20 questions about the political bioenergy frameworks in the CE
countries
– Online questionnaire was open during Oct 2009 till Sep 2010
– More than 1200 participants from the CE region concerned with
renewable energies
• Following graphs summarise the results

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National Biomass Action Plan
targets vs. reaching the targets
0%
5%
10%
15%
20%
25%
30%
35%
40%
45%
very good good adequate poor very poor
%ofexperts
How do you rate the nBAP targets of
your country? (n=580)
How do you rate the success rate of
your country in reaching these targets in
the future? (n=550)

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Ratings of national nBAPs
0%
10%
20%
30%
40%
50%
60%
70%
Poland Hungary Austria Slovak
Republic
Czech
Republic
Italy Germany Slovenia
Positive rating of nBAP targets
Positive rating of success rate of reaching the targets
Positive = "very good" and "good" | Questions: How do you rate the nBAP targets of your country? (n=580); How do you rate the
success rate of your country in reaching these targets in the future? (n=550)

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Which renewables could provide most additional
gain in primary energy supply of your country in
2020?

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Stakeholder dialogue results and
report
• The results indicate that the experts rate the targets more positively than
the probability of reaching the targets.
• Biomass for heating/cooling will considerably contribute to the reaching
the targets in the nREAPs

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Activities to set up a
Transnational Action Plan
 Country and trade studies
provide the data on biomass use
and potentials and trade in CE
countries
 Stakeholder online questionnaire
- Transnational survey on
political framework and
National Biomass Action Plans
 Development of
recommendations for a
coordinated transnational
sustainable bioenergy policy
 TAP: Common action plan for
the Central Europe
– Recommendations for policy makers and
implementing authorities towards
sustainable bioenergy development by a
joint and consistent policy approach
 Second Transnational forum

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Thank you for your attention!