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Gas dispute: Pröll puts biomass action plan on Councils agenda

“Following the alarming price hike for crude oil, the gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine has made one thing very clear: we must take action in the EU to reduce dependence on fossil energy

sources. In my capacity as President of the EU Agriculture Council, I have therefore put the biomass action plan on the agenda for the next meeting on 23rd and 24th January 2006. ......... p. 13

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Bioenergy International Pellets Map. It

has been an exiting and a little trouble-

some work to produce the map also this year.

Information have been collected through lots of

sources. Direct personal contacts as well as through

associations and suppliers of equipment. We want

to say clearly, this is not the complete picture, the

information is not double checked with indepen-

dent sources - it’s impossible. But any how the

map gives an idea of the fast growing business.

We have chosen not to include plants with smaller

capacity than 5 000 tonnes, and only exception is

Italy where few of such are listed. Please use the

information carefully. We thank Patric Storm for his

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by the way ..... this year we have listed 236 plants,

last year it was 195!

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Pellet Map 3

Introduction 5

List of pellets plants 5

Vapo world market leader in fuel pellets 6

Baltic wood pellets success with Sprout Matador process equipment 7

TallOil world most international working biofuel company 7

SBE expands in EU 8

Production of pellets in Slovakia 9

New pellet mills in North America 9

Think ahead not just for the day says Fulghum Fibre Fuels 9

A fast grower BBG 10

Improved logistics with pellets in bags 10

Pfeifer Holzindustrie,Kundl largest pellets plant in Austria 11

Harbours in UK 11

German Fire Stixx Holz Energi even more hot 12

Wood pellet industry update from North America 13

CompactTec - next year 140 000 t. 13

Hot news 2005 14

Pellets interest in Stuttgart event 14

11900 visitor in Augsburg 15

Fire, water, air 15

New support for sub-stitution of oil and electrical heat 16


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No Company name/Location capacityAustria

1 Binder Franz/Jenbach und Fügen/Zillertal 80 0002 BioStar/Eberschwang 5 0003 Glechner/Mattighofen 30 0004 Hasslacher Holzwerke/Kötschach-Mauthen 2 0005 Holzindustrie Leitinger/Wernersdorf 15 0006 Holzindustry Preding/Preding 50 0007 Pabst Holzindustrie /Obdach 30 0009 Loitzl Holz/Steinach 10 000

10 Pfeifer/Kundl 100 00011 Seppele Peter/Feistritz an der Drau 27 00013 Ökowärme/Ybbs 90 00014 Holzindustrie Preding/Leoben 40 00015 Seppele Peter/Sachsenburg 30 000

Belarus1 Belameks/Gomel/Byelorussia2 BRM/Minsk

Belgium1 Exinor SA Wood pellets/Malmedy2 Granubois/Bievres 18 000

Bulgaria1 Axis/Sofi a

Canada1 Pellet Flame Inc/BC 100 0002 Pinnacle Pellet/BC3 Premim Pellet/BC 200 0004 princeton Co-Generation Corp./BC 75 000

5 Armstrong/BC 50 0006 Pacifi c Bioenergy Corp/BC 140 0007 Dansons-Vanderwell/Alberta 80 0008 Energex/Quebec9 Advanced Wood/New Brunswick 10 000

10 Shaw Resources/New Brunswick 20 00011 Mactara/Nova Scotia 80 000

Czech Republic3 Enviterm a.s./Zdirec nad Doubravou 5 0004 Jesenik Biofuels/Opava 6 000

Denmark1 Vapo/Vildbjerg 100 0002 Vapo/Vejen 35 0003 Energie E2/Köge 280 0004 Bodilsen/Glyngöre 20 0005 Assens Träpiller/Assens6 Dangront/Aars 20 0007 Rode & Rode Traimil/Frederikshavn8 A/S Spanvall/Järslev 80 000

Estonia1 BBG - Hansa Graanul/Patkula 120 0002 AS Flex Heat/Rakvere 85 0003 Delcotec AS/Paide 40 0004 Tootsi Granul/Vapo Group/Pärnu 20 0005 Hansa AS Graanul Invest/Paide 80 000

Finland1 Parkanon Pellet/Parkano 15 0002 Vapo Oy/Turenki Pellet Factory 70 000

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Emission trading 16

Sustainable biomass management chains to meet requirements from Kyoto 17

REEP receives three year founding 17

Gas dispute, cont. from page 1. 18

Increased use of felling residues in north of Sweden 18

New storage and distribution center in UK 19

New bioenergy boiler and heat supply network 19

Study visit from the East Midlands 19

GEF project in Slove-nia fi nalised in 2006 20

Bundling of small scale bioenergy projects generates income from carbon credits sales 20

Greetings 2006 21

Pellet Expo 22

American hurricane 22

International seminar on ash recycling 23

Biomass updraft gas-ifi cation power plant in Japan 23

Clean energy power 24

World renewable energy assembly 25

Congress in Bulgaria 25

World Sustainable Energy days 2006 26

Calendar 27

Even the most scep-tical consumer and politicians is

now getting interested. Is it really possible, can Bioenergy, especially pellets, be the solution for large scale as well as small scale energy con-sumers, like oil?

And - the answer is yes. Pellets is now proven to be a good alternative in very dif-ferent markets.

We have the small scale user, the dominat-ing customer in North America and central Europe.

The major quantities of pellets are however today used in larger units like in estates and middle range heating centrals and in a fast increasing numbers of industries, district heat-ing and power plants.

Pellets enough?Is some specifi c regions

we can notice a lack of sawdust, the dominating surplus raw material. Of course this surplus will end. But there are still large quantities around the world that is not used at all.

A broader range of raw material will there-fore enter the market.

First to be used is the bark and similar residues that falls in the sawmills and pulp industries.

Next assortment is stem wood and harvest-ed whole trees in large scale operations.

We have huge po-tentials of unused trees standing in the forests today.

We have also found out that there is a fast growing interest for agropellets. Also here there are different op-tions. Residues from the food industry, straw from the fi elds or new energy crops.

Designed pellets will come

The market will be more divided. There is no need to buy a more expensive fuel than necessarily.

Producers will there-fore put more effort in designing pellets in op-timized way.

This will be an impor-tant issue to find well working standards for.

Production regionsWe do not have a world wide integrated pellets market, but for large scale users and large scale importers the fuel business are global.

Europe northVolume king of pellets use and production is Sweden, Denmark is not so far behind. Finland, Esthonia, Latvia are also big producers.

In Europe-north we also fi nd the three larg-est market suppliers in

the business;Vapo from Finland,

SBE from Sweden and BBG from Latvia.

And what about Rus-sia? They are coming, but they have still prob-lems to solve regarding logistics.

Central EuropeAustria and Germany has become big in small scale use of pellets. The equip-ment producers are also high class and fast grow-ing. Countries like Tjeck-ien, Slovakia, Slovenien, France and Switzerland are increasing their pro-duction and the use.

Western EuropeHere we have a waked up tiger in consumption. The coal and gas crisis has hit hard.

Europe southItaly is the regional pel-lets king. Lot’s of small production units and a

top class industry for equipment and focus also in agro pellets.

Eastern Europe, Asia, South America,

Africa, AustraliaLots of possibilities not so much done, but what a potential!!

It will take time to get the smooth operation. Japan has huge con-sumption, huge forests and almost no pellets for example and China has just started their fi rst program for bioenergy. Brazil we know have skills etc etc.

North AmericaFinally Canada and the United states. Pellets are here used in specifi c regions and mostly in small towns in rural ar-eas. But we do also have some very large suppli-ers that delivers by ship to Western Europe.

Lennart Ljungblom

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Vapo - world market leader in fuel pellets

The Finnish based company Vapo is

probably the world largest pellet com-pany.

– We do now have activities in Finland, Sweden, Denmark, Russia, Estonia, Lat-via and Poland and we are growing.

– It is not more than two months ago since we bought three Dan-ish production plants from Statoil Denmark and started a cooper-ation with them for the market development, says Tommi Ruha, director of Refined Fuels in Vapo

3 Vapo Oy/Vöyri Pellet Factory/Vöyri 25 0004 Vapo Oy/Kaskinen Pellet Factory/Kaskinen 35 0005 Vapo haminan Puunjalostus Oy/metsäkylä 15 0006 Vapo Lapin Ekolämpö Oy/Ilomantsi Plant, Ilomantsi 70 0007 Vapo Lapin Ekolämpö Oy/Keminmaa 30 0008 Scanpell Oy/Kärsämäki 24 0009 Vapo Oy/Haukineva pellet factory/haukineva 60 000

10 Paahtopuu Oy/Korkeakoski/Juupajoki 25 00011 Luoman wood pellets Oy/Ylistaro 40 00012 Länsi Suomen Biopower/Vammala 15 00013 Keurak Oy/Keuruu 14 00015 Savon Bioenergia/Rantasalmi 10 00016 Jannpellet Oy/Paltamo 5 00018 Formados Oy/Kuusamo 7 000

France1 Cogra 48/Mende 15 0002 SAS Fontaine des Auges/Gendrey 10 0003 SCA/Baigneux les Juifs4 Savoie Pan/Tournon 27 0005 Sofag/Arc sous Cicon 10 0007 Archimaud Ets./Brioux Boutonne8 Alpha Luzerne/Pratz9 Euroluz/Pauvres

10 Sodem ets Marchais/Broue11 Vert Deshy/Meximieux

Germany2 Assenmacher/Ormont 5 0004 Westerwälder/Langenbach 40 0005 Trocknungsgenossenschaft/Neuhof an der Zenn 5 0006 CompacTec/Straubing 80 0007 Pellino’s Holzpellets/Hallbach 15 0008 FireStixx/Regen 50 0009 Ante-Holz/Bromskirchen-Somplar 47 000

10 Holzenergie Klaus Fallert/Appenweier 5 00013 Trocknungsgenossenschaft Weissenburg/Ellingen 5 00014 Lockfi sch/Bobingen 15 000

16 Schellinger & Co Mühlenwerke/Weingarten 36 00017 Gregor Ziegler GmbH/Plössberg 25 00018 Horst Römer/Emskirchen 10 00019 Neue Energie Gesellschaft mbH/Grossenhain 40 00020 BSVG/Grossdubrau 10 000

Hungary1 Kek Bolygo /Bioenergia/KFT/Nagycenk

Italy1 Sitta srl (San Giovanni al Natisone) 18 0002 Biocalor (Romans dÍsonzo)3 Kaminella srl (Martignacco)4 Segatifriuli srl (Percoto)5 PST la pedemontana di pizzato pierantonio (Lusiana)6 La Tiesse srl (S. Michele di Piave di Cimadolmo) 40 0007 Il truciolo srl (Michele di Piave di Cimadolmo) 27 0008 Legno vivo (Cassola)9 Nordpan spa (Valdaora)

10 Lanz srl (Rio di Pusteria)11 Sartorilegno snc (Fondo)12 Valpellert srl (Ponte in Valtellina)13 M.a.b.e.f. Srl (Cardano al Campo)14 Braga spa (Casalmaggiore) 27 00015 Bs bollareto impianti industriali (Darfo Boario terme)16 Boffi srl (Cinicello balsamo)17 C & b Calor srl (Limbiate) 30 00018 Cortinovis geremia e f. lli. s.n.c (Lenna)19 Del curto srl (Verderio inferiore) 9 00020 S.i.e.r. Snc (Chiusa de pesio)21 Ligna tech Italia srl (Pinerolo) 22 Amga energia (San Mauro Pascoli) 23 O.m legno snc (Bordalone)24 Agripellet srl (San Miniato Basso)25 Legnopress (Mossumano terme)26 Thermopellet srl (Pistoia)27 Ecopellet srl (Ellera di Corciano)28 Mancini f.lli snc (Matigge)

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– This we think is the correct solution for Denmark.

– In other countries we run the market ac-tivities ourselves, says Tommi Ruha.

Vapo is totally domi-nating in Finland and is also big in Sweden.The company has es-tablished itself in Rus-sia with an own factory and handles pellets for export to industries in Western Europe.

– It is not an easy business to work with pellets, says Tommi Ruha and forecasts that there will be a consolidation.

– One interesting product is our agri-pellets, they have large market possibilities.

Lennart Ljungblom

Tommi Ruha

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Talloil world most interna-tional working

biofuel company

Swedish based TallOil AB has

activit ies in most parts of the world and in different fi elds of technology.

– We are active in biofuel supply, tech-nology development, construct ion and market, says Hen-rik Lundberg, main owner and CEO of the company.

Baltic wood pellets Baltic Bioenergy Group (BBG) is one of the

largest producers of wood pellets within the

Baltic region. The yearly production of the

facilities in Latvia and Estonia amounts to

250 000 tonnes. Wood pellets contribute to

reduction of the CO2 discharge and are sup-

plied to customers in the Baltic region as well

as several European countries.

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pacity of 60 000 tonnes. The local sawmill, that is the collaborator in this project, acts as the supplier of raw material for the facility in Vent-spils.

17 pellet mill linesToday BBG posses more than 17 pellet mill lines, whereas 11 of them are Sprout-Matador equip-ment.

Mr. Gatis Deksnis,

(CEO at BBG) states: – Sprout-Matador, who has supplied complete layout, installation and consultation, has ful-

The fi rst facilities for production of wood pellets

were established in the beginning of the 90’ies.

At that time sawmills offered their sawdust to wood pellet producers for free.

Today the production of sawdust in the Baltic region has reached a limit of 400 000 tonnes per year, and it is no longer possible to fetch the sawdust for free. If the biomass production should continue to grow, one must look abroad for import of raw ma-terials.

First pellet millIn 2001 BBG acquired the first three Sprout-Matador pellet mills.

Positive experience soon led to construc-tion of the new facility, Gaujas Granulas, near the harbor in Riga. To-day this facility holds 6 Sprout-Matador pellet mill lines.

New facilityBBG continued to grow and in collaboration with a local sawmill a new production facility, Kurzemes Granulas in Ventspils, became a fact in 2005.

The production facil-ity in Ventspils, Latvia, holds two Sprout-Mata-dor pellet mill lines and posses a yearly capacity of 40 000 tonnes.

An anticipated expan-sion of the production will reach a yearly ca-

29 Tagliabosschi (Frosinone)30 Sozio snc (Sambuceto)31 Effesystem (Avezzano)32 Ditta donadei (Pratola Peligna)33 Rossikol srl (Sambuceto) 18 00034 Eco calor snc (Pietracatella)35 Comunita terapeutica Molise coc coop. (Toro)36 F.lli Ragosa (Mercato san Severino)

Latvia1 SBE Svens BrikettEnergi/Lauciena 70 0002 BBG-ZemgalesGranulas/Iecava 40 0003 Latgranula/Incukalns, Riga 12 0004 CED /Drabesi, Cesu 8 0005 Sia Marama/Talloil/Liepaja 50 0006 BBG - Gaujas Granulas/Riga 110 0007 BBG-Videzemes Granulas/Cesvaine 10 0008 BBG-Kurzemes Granulas/Ventspils 40 000

Lithuania1 UAB Baltic Wood/Mazeikiai 15 0002 UAB GaireLita/Radviliskis 15 0004 UAB Nemora group/Radviliskis 6 0006 Vizerana /Tytuvenai/Siauliai 14 0007 Graanul Invest UAB/Alytus 60 000

The Netherlands1 Labee Group Moerdijk 100 000

Norway1 Cambi Bioenergi Vestmarka AS/Vestmarka 45 0002 Statoil Norsk Träpellets/Brumunddal 20 0004 Frya Bioenergi AS/Sor-fron 15 0005 Vi-Tre AS/Roros 12 0006 Statoil/Sykkylven på Sunnmøre 10 0007 Norpellets/Andebu 10 0008 Inlandet Energipellets/Rändalen 20 0009 Sor Förädling/Tröndelag 6 000

Poland1 Arno-Eko/Szczecin 36 0002 Barlinek/Barlinek 36 0003 P.H.Bestpol/Zielona 12 0004 Enpal/Slubice 100 0005 Pellet - Art/ Torzym 30 0006 Task/Kiszkowo/Pobiedziska 7 0007 Toreco/Brzezinki/Bydgoszcz 12 0008 Zacisze/Czestochowa 5 0009 Xynergia Sp. Z o.o/Ozarow Mazowiecki 12 000

10 Segi AT/Warszawa 6 00011 Motowerk Zbigniew Misiarz/Mielec 12 000

filled our expectations for our projects through out the years.

Tove Isaksen Sprout Matador

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– Our daughter company TPS has the engineering skills and is now involved in a large scale coal con-version with installa-tion of several wood powder burners of our own design in one big power plant.

– The focus of the mother company is market development, fuel trading and fuel production.

– Most interesting is also the raised demand in the USA where increasing gas prices open up for pellets.

– The coming years will show a growing market and a busi-ness that will become more sol id. Some market actors will not be able to deal with the more profes-sional customers that now have stepped into the market, ends Henrik Lundberg.

Lennart Ljungblom

Henrik Lundberg

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SBE expands in EU

With more than 20 years in the

business SBE Svensk Brikettenergi is very experienced in the production of fuel and in district heating.

Last year SBE was overtaken by the Swedish farmer orga-nization Lantmännen and includes now also world leading skills in energy forestry - salix plantations - through their company Agro-bränsle.

– We are in a fast expanding phase, says Kent Johans-son, CEO who was re-cruited last year from the forestry industry owned SCA Bionorr.

– Our fastest grow-ing market, outside Sweden, is England and Scotland where our company Renew-able Fuels Ltd are in a leading position.

Maybe one of the most interesting as-pect now is the in-creasing interest for using agricultural land for energy production.

– For the combination, plantation and power, we will soon have a major breakthrough.

– It is no need to use exclusive saw-dust pellets when a cheaper pellets can be available. This will increase the amount of white pellets for the residential market, ends Kent Johans-son./LLj

Kent Johansson

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Fram Renewable Fuels has an-nounced the open-

ing of its offi ces in Sa-vannah, Georgia, USA.

Fram will build pel-let mills on the eastern coast of North Ameri-ca, for the purpose of serving the market in the EU.

Heading the com-pany as its president is

Pellet production plant located in Northwest Slova-

kia in Kysucky Lieskovec has been built and start-ed operation in October 2004. The plant is owned by Biomasa Association of legal entities.

TechnologyInvestment costs are calculated for about 3,5

John Colquitt, a veteran in the biofuels business. John, a graduate for-ester, will lead the con-struction of the multiple pellet mills and the orga-nization of the market-ing and shipping activi-ties of Fram.

The vice president, Harold Arnold, a long time member of the forestry community

in Georgia, has been until his employment by Fram, a marketing consultant to the forest industry in Georgia. He brings 25 years of for-estry, marketing, and shipping experience to the company.

For more information contact [email protected]

New pellet mills in North America

John Colquitt and Harold Arnold during Bioenergy 2005 conference in Trondheim

Production of pellets in Slovakia

million Euro. Technol-ogy line for the plant was provided by Dre-voindustria Mechanik in Slovakia and pellet mill from CPM was used.

ProductionThe plant uses 20 000 tonnes sawdust annu-ally. Yearly production of pellets reaches 12 000 tonnes.

Sawdust collection logis-tics is targeted above all to producers with high quality of sawdust and continuous and reliable supply. Sawdust is col-lected by own transport system (two container trucks) from the nearby region.

Pellets for sales in do-mestic market and ex-port are packed in big-

bags of 1000 or 1200 kg and sacks of 15 kg. Up to now the pellets are exported mainly to Italy, Poland and Austria.

ProjectConstruction of pellet plant together with re-construction of 44 boiler rooms combusting fos-sil fuels into pellet-fi ring ones (in scale from small

boilers in private houses to 2,5 MW) has been the cardinal project for the company Biomasa.

The project presents complex solution for the implementation of biomass heating and es-tablishment of the mar-ket with wood pellets in Slovakia

more infowww.biomasa.sk

12 Buk Real Esteta Sp z o.o/Dobra 6 00013 SYLVA Sp. z o.o/Wiele - Koscierzyna 5 00014 Pelety Kozienenice/Kozienice 12 00015 Pelpol/Rososzyca gm. Warta 24 00016 Miroslaw Kaminski PPHU/Olecko - Elk 6 00017 Z.P.H.U Marand/Grady Woniecko - Zambrowo 6 00018 Biopal/Szczecin 7 00019 Furel/Bialy Bor - Koszalin 22 000

Russia1 Ecotech LTD/Podporozhie 25 0002 RosPolitekhGruppa/Kolpino 50 0003 Sallotti LTD/LomonosovSt petersburg 20 0004 Biofuel LTD/Gatchina 10 0005 Gatchina 25 0006 Biotek LTD/Nevkaya Dubrovka 10 0007 Novgorod/Grate 25 0008 Ecoresources Company/Lodeynoe Pole 15 0009 Tikhvin/Leninrgad Region 8 000

10 Velikie Luky/Pskov Region 30 00011 Visny Volochok/Tver Reg 10 00012 Murom/Vladimir Region 10 000

13 Cherepovets 20 00014 Vologda 100 00015 Impeks Ltd/Likhoslavl 30 00016 Moscow 10 00017 Valdai ltd/Valdai - Novogorod reg. 25 00018 Sevglavsnab ltd/Arkhangelsk 20 00019 Zavod Biotpoliva ltd/Murashi - Kirov reg. 20 00020 Biotpoliva plc/Lodeinoye 100 00021 Slobodskoi Agroles/Slobodskoi 25 00022 Transkhimtekhnologiya Ltd/Volkhov 50 00023 Promlesinterservis Company/Peno 35 00024 Intrust Ltd/Kirovsk 50 00025 PSB-GEM-HOLTS/St Petersburg 35 000

Slovakia1 Drevomax/Rajecke Teplice2 Holz-Produkt/Ruska Nova Ves3 FERT/Branska Stiavnica4 AVS Plus/Bratislava5 Pelletia Heso/Bratislava6 Pellets zipser/spiska Nova Ves7 Biomasa/Kysucky Lieskovec 12 000

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Think ahead not just for the day says Fulghum

Fibre Fuels

Today market situ-ation for pellets

is so very hot - but also immature, says Göran Westerlund re-sponsible for Fulghum Fibre Fuels with a fa-cility north of Halifax in Canada with a 100 000 t/y production.

– In all markets there is a demand for pellets but sometimes the buyers has not under-stood the problems with pellets.

– It is not possible to base a large scale op-eration on short terms contracts

– The solution is long term contracts, with this the capital will fl ow into the busi-ness and with this also necessarily new plants.

Most exiting is in my views the wakening industrial market but I can not ignore the fast growing residential market.

– I can go on like this forever to present different markets, dif-ferent trends.

– Another important aspect is of course also the raw material.

– We will se a more divided market with more differentiated fuel qualities in the coming years ends Göran Westerlund.

Lennart Ljungblom

Göran Westerlund

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Improved logistics with pellets in bags

Flex Heat is one of the largest producers of wood pellets in Estonia. The company is part of the Danish Flexa group

well known for their furniture production - the global market leaders in the production of furniture for children. As one

of the fi rst western companies to enter Estonia after the separation from USSR in 1991 Flexa is listed as one of the

largest Danish investments in Estonia - owner of saw mill, producer of furniture and wood pellets.

Slovenia1 Istrabenz/Nazarje 40 0002 Profi les/Hrusevje 10 0003 Enerles/Pivka 40 000

Spain1 Ecoforest/Villacanas 40 0002 Caryse/Villaseca de la Sagra 15 0003 Resifor/Santiago de Compostela 15 000

Sweden1 Pajala Bioenergi/Luleå 8 0002 Bioenergi/Luleå 90 0003 MBAB Energi/Robertsfors 25 0004 Skelleftea Kraft AB 130 0005 SCA BioNorr AB/Härnösand 160 0006 Mellanskogs Bränsle/Ljusne 23 0007 Mellanskogs Bränsle/Orsa 40 0009 SÅBI Pellet/Fremlingshem 55 000

10 Mellanskogs Bränsle/Säffl e 40 00011 Laxå Pellets/Laxå 85 00012 BooForsjö AB/Katrineholm 40 00013 Borensberg 20 00014 Såbi Pellet/Forsnäs 60 00015 Såbi Pellet/Vaggeryd 75 000

16 SBE Svensk BrikettEnergi/Malmbäck 80 00017 SBE Svensk BrikettEnergi /Norberg 80 00018 SBE Svensk BrikettEnergi/Ulrichshamn 85 00019 SBE Svens BrikettEnergi/Sölvesborg 55 00020 Södra Skogsenergi/Mönsterås 40 00021 Vida Energi/Hestra 40 00022 Helsinge Pellets AB/Edsbyn 50 00023 Bure Pellets/Skellefteå, Bureå 25 00024 Mockfjärd Biobränsle AB/Dalarna 6 00026 Jämtlamell/Lit 13 00027 Glommersträsk Miljöenergi AB/Glommersträsk 8 00029 Sågverksassitance/Svanskog 700031 V-Pellets/Grums 10 00032 Knäredssågen AB/Knäred 6 000

Switzerland1 Bürli Trocknungsanlage/Gettnau 5 0002 Interspan Tschopp/Buttisholz 15 0003 AEK Pellet Schweiz/Solothurn 35 0004 Keller Konrad/Unterstammheim 5 000

UK1 Welsh Biofuels/Bridgend/Wels 50 0002 Balcas/Enniskillen/North Ireland 50 0003 ReNe/Nottingham 10 000

The complete line installed in Flex Heat in Estonia is making approximately 750 bags per hour.

List of pellets plants cont. from page 9© Bioenergy International

A fast grower BBG - Baltic Bioenergy

Group

With fi ve produc-tion units and a

yearly production of 250 000 tonnes the privately owned Lat-vian company Bal-tic Bioenergy Group, BBG is the third larg-est pellets produc-tion organization in Europe.

Mr Gatis Deksnis, chairman of the board explains

– Our market is pri-mary large energy pro-duction units in the UK, the Netherlands, Belgium, Sweden and Denmark. Cogenera-tion has become a major thing.

– For this market nice homogeny white pellets is not impor-tant, instead they ask for high energy content bioenergy pellets.

– Today sawdust still is the major source, but bark is an increas-ing part together with stem wood. We are also interested in straw and peat.

– The other most im-portant factor is good logistics. It does not matter how good you are in production and how cheap and large raw material supply you have, without smooth logistics you will get into trouble.

– Our company has as an example our own harbor, a part of the port of Riga. Ear-lier we where also into shipping but this part we have left, says mr Gatis Deksnis.

The group has now around 200 employ-ees.

Lennart Ljungblom

Pellets



Located near the town Rakvere, approximately

1.5 hour drive from Tal-linn Flex Heat grew and in a few years became one of the biggest in the country with a yearly production reaching 80 000 tonnes of pellets.

New investmentPellets are sold locally, but the major part is shipped overseas. The biggest market is Denmark.

Last year Flex Heat realized the need for a dedicated packaging line to pack the wood pellets in bags.

Pellets in bags is an easy way to make the product gain value, be-cause a boat load eas-ily can be divided and shipped directly to the end consumers, giving a higher price.

Since pellets are pro-duced all year round, but mainly sold in win-ter, Flex Heat was with

increasing production facing a storage problem for bulk pellets.

All the bulk transport when arrived in Den-mark were put on inter-mediate storage, before it could be transported again to a Danish feed mill with production equipment to make the bagging and packaging.

The best solution for all the problems; storage, transport and gaining value of the product was installation of the inde-pendent packing line.

Where to install the line?

One solution was to install it inside the fac-tory and then transport the fi nished pallets with bags directly by boat to the customers.

Another was to install the packaging line in a storage facility in a Dan-ish harbour and then ship the pellets there in bulk.

The advantage of fi rst

option is that the product can freely be shipped to customers in Germany, Sweden, Denmark etc. The disadvantage is that it is easier to transport bulk in ships than pallets.

The company found a solution to transport pallets on a special ro-ro ship, build almost like a car ferry.

The decision was made to install the line on the factory in Estonia.

Equipment from Fisker

Flex Heat had contacted Fisker in Skanderborg, Denmark. Fisker has supplied the major part of the packaging lines for wood pellets existing in Scandinavia. More than 10 lines have been built for the packaging of wood pellets.

The new line is based on standard machinery, but the complete line has been designed to fi t into the existing buildings in the factory.

The line consists of a 20 cubic meters hopper positioned in the bulk storage room. Here the pellets are fed into with a wheel loader. There is also an option to feed the hopper directly from the production. This requires though that the pellets are properly cooled fi rst.

The hopper is construct-ed with a conveyor belt in the bottom. This feeds the pellets into the vertical bucket elevator. Here the pellets are lifted up into a sizer (screen). This is an essential component.

Avoid the dustA major advantage of pellets in bags as op-posed to bulk is that the pellets are protected inside the bag and trans-port is possible without creation of dust. Bags on pallets make it possible to lift and transport the pallets without touching the pellets.

High quality prod-uct should be with as little dust as possible. Therefore the sizer is positioned as close as possible to the actual bagging.

Because of the build-ing layout a conveyor belt was chosen to trans-port the pellets from the sizer to the packaging line. A conveyor belt is a gentle way to transport the pellets - limits dust formation.

Designed with an electronic weigher

This unit will feed the pellets into a hopper and then release a pre-cise batch based upon the operator input to the electronic weighing controller.

On the Flex Heat line 16 and 25 kg bags are produced, but other siz-es can be made only by entering another value.

The weigher is calibrat-ed and approved by the Estonian Authorities.

Positioned under the weigher is a Form, Fill and Seal packaging ma-chine. These machines are mainly known in smaller sizes where they are widely used for pack-aging of food, coffee etc.

The packaging mate-rial is supplied from a reel of fl at fi lm. The ma-chine folds the fi lm and seals it around the prod-uct thereby making the form, fi ll and seal pro-cess in one operation.

Automatic palletiser It is installed after the packaging machine. This machine positions the bags on the pallet in a predefi ned pattern exactly calculated so the bags will create a perfectly shaped and stabile pallet.

At the end of the line is installed a stretch wrapping machine. This machine is wrapping the pallet with stretch fi lm, an automatically places a top sheet cover on top of the pallet. This makes the pallets “splash water proof”.

The pallets are then conveyed outside on roller conveyors ready to be taken with a fork lift and stored before transportation.Text and photos Peter Henningsen Fisker AS

Ready to transport by ro-ro vessel pallets with pellets packed in the bags

The line has been running since summer 2005 and the build up storage of bagged pellets is now being sold with big success.

Pfeifer Holzin-dustrie, Kundllargest pellets

plant in Austria

We are totally sold out . A l l pro-

duced 115 000 are sold, says Mr. Ingo Meitinger, responsible for sales for Austrian company Pfeifer Hol-zindustrie GmbH & Co KG one of the larger wood industrial com-panies.

– It is an enormous interest in our pellets, Mr. Meitinger says and we are now discus-sion the possibilities for expanding.

– We are so far fo-cused on white pel-lets intended for the residential market and delivers only to deal-ers.

Holzindustrie Pfeifer has activities in seven locations and the pel-lets production is con-centrated in Kundl in western Austria.

Harbours in UK,more informa-tion to the map

Immingham Docks: here Renewable

Fuels Ltd imported 60,000 tonnes pellets to the UK via in 2005. Forecast for 2006 is 100,000 tonnes.

Goole Port has bio-mass storage with annual capacity for 130,000 tonnes . Fore-cast 30,000 tonnes for 2006 (storage facility complete May 2006).

End-users are large scale power providers throughout Yorkshire and Nottinghamshire and pellet boilers in public buildings such as schools, as well as some domestic cus-tomers.

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It is no doubt that we will keep on growing.

Our own production capacity is today 50 000 tonnes a year and we have sold all, says sales manager Franz Blieninger

– Soon we will start to build a new pellets plant in Deggendorf

Oil and gas– The increasing oil and gas prices are a major driving force.

One important as-pect of our business is that we do not only produce and sell our own pellets. We have also created a large sales and distribution organization that other companies supples with pellets.

He also says that a new trend indicate interest in getting en-quiries of larger units 100 - 1000 kW.

X-codeAn innovation is our X-code, a labelling sys-tem that is burned into our pellets. In this way we can always follow our products and also produce pellets for dif-ferent standards.

PoliticsRegarding the politi-cal situation they are not worried about any changes for the devel-opment of biomass. – Maybe wind and so-lar will get problems.

cont. p 13 below.


www.bioenergyinternational.comPellets

Early pellet stoves, and as is still the case with many

pellet appliance’s, they are very fuel sensitive. Therefore, the qual-ity of wood pellets in North America must be very high. The moisture can not exceed 6%, ash levels should not exceed 0.30%, fi nes must stay below 0.50% and the heat value must range between 8500 - 8900 BTU (5.5 - 5.6 MWh).

North American pellet appliances

Depending on the other heating options in the different regions of each country, the pellet stove or fireplace insert are appliances of consider-ation.

There is some contro-versy over how many pellet stoves exist in North America, but if the average consump-tion is 2 tonnes per con-sumer nationwide, there should be some 450 000-500 000 stoves.

The wood pellet indus-try in both Canada and the United States rely on economics only, there are no environmental CO2 reduction incentives of-fered to date in either country. Wood pellet must compete against all other options, such as oil, electricity, LPG and fossil gas (called Natural Gas in North America) Fossil Gas is perceived to be clean energy in North America.

The higher cost of a pel-let heating system (boil-er or forced air) for the entire home, complete fuel storage and deliv-ery is not appealing be-cause of the higher cost in related to it, when comparing other home heating options.

However, a few mod-els of this type of tech-nology is available, but very few home owners take advantage of it.

Residential space heating accounts for around 956 000 tonnes of production and sales of pellets in both Cana-da and the US.

Canadian exports overseas

That sector shows the most growth in pellet production over the past few years and is ex-pected to ship 582 500 tonnes of pellets over-seas during 2005. Total of wood pellet produc-tion in North America accounts for 1 653 500 tonnes. From that num-ber Canada now manu-factures about 915 000 tonnes (55%).

The majority of ad-ditional pellet produc-tion in the future, is ex-pected to come mostly from Western Canada for two reasons. First of all Western Canada has a vast forest and timber supply. Secondly unlike Eastern Canada and Eastern USA, Western Canada does not have large number of pulp-

mills or board plant competing for the fi bre.

Exports to the US bagged market has al-ways been an important market for Canadian pellet producers and increase of it should be observed next year.

Pellet exports from North America arrive from Canada only, raw material cost and fi bre availability do not make it economically viable for American pellet pro-ducers to export.

Pellet plantsThroughout all of North America there are at present 46 pellet plants accounted for, however there is said that this number is closer to 60.

Canada, with 55% of the production, is home to 20 plants, while the US is home to some 40 pellet plants with 45% of the pellet production.

In general the pellet plants in Canada have larger production ca-pacity’s, particularly in Western Canada (BC), where they range from 50 000 - 150 000 tonnes of annual production.

Pellet plants are lo-cated mostly on either coast and only few in the mid lands of both Canada and the US.

West Coast plants

produce softwood pel-lets from Spruce, Pine, Fir, some Fir and Hem-lock. East Coast US pel-let plants manufacture a hardwood pellet from Oak, Maple, Cherry and other hardwood species.

All wood pellets pro-duced in North America with the exception of two plants, manufacture pellets from sawdust and shavings residue only. The two produc-

Pellet fuel in North America, both in Canada

and the US is produced and consumed

almost exclusively as a residential heating

supplement. Free standing pellet stoves is

the predominate heating devise used for wood

pellets. There are very few home owners uti-

lizing furnaces or boilers to heat their entire

home. Consequently, bulk home delivery has

not yet been introduced.

ers whom mix bark into their wood pellets, export them to power plants in Europe.

Sea portsSea ports where pellets are loaded for export to Europe are located at Halifax and Three Riv-ers on the East Coast of Canada, Vancouver and Prince Rupert on the West Coast of Canada. Dorota Natucka

Wood pellet industry update from North America

Pellet plants and sea ports in North America

Canadian versus USA wood pellet production

John Swaan (President of BC Pellet Fuel Manufactures Association) during his vist in Stockholm in September met Dorota Natucka (picture) and Lennart Ljungblom. John gave a nice presentation of Norht American pellet industry on which this article is based. Thank you John.

Compac Tec will soon reach 140 000 tonnes

The company Com-pac Tec in Straub-

ing in south of Germa-ny in Bavaria (Bayern) is growing fast. Today they say that they have a possible capacity of 140 000 tonnes and this year produced 53 000 tonnes but will already next year produce up to their production limit.

– Therefore there is no doubt that we have to invest in more production capacity, says the company spokesperson Alex-ander Shulze

– One important trend for next year is multi biomass pellets. The possibilities to use agricultural crops of different kind and to deliver pellets after de-mand of heating values is most interesting.

– Our believe is that the market will further grow and that pellets already has become one of the major al-ternatives for home heating. Today 40 000 units for pellets heat-ing has been installed and next year another 10 000 will start using pellets.

– The pellets sector is a real expanding part of today busi-ness in Germany, ends Mr. Alexander Shulze, Compac Tec.

Markku Björkman

cont. from p. 12

– We are really posi-tive and we hope that the development in France and Switzer-land will further speed up business, ends Mr. Franz Blieninger from Fire Stixx Holz En-ergie.

Markku Björkman



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Pellet heating sys-tems are enjoying a textbook boom.

More than 14 000 pellet heating systems will be newly installed in Ger-many alone 2005.

Consequently, some are predicting a sales growth of over 100 per cent. And this trend is amply reflected in the number of visitors to Pellets 2005: Whereas 2 000 came in 2004, this year some 4 500 visitors thronged about the stands of the 72 ex-hibitors. Manufacturers, suppliers, wholesalers and service providers presented their latest products and services.

Helmut Gastl, Manag-ing Director of Ökofen Germany, has taken part since the very fi rst Pel-lets trade fair: – Pellets 2005 specialisa-

tion makes it the most important German in-dustry meeting-point for the pellet sector.

Helmut Schellinger, Managing Director of the pellet producer Schellinger KG also focussed this pos-itive development: – I’m thrilled by the atmosphere here at the fair. I never imagined we could improve on last year, but it really has got even better. The mood is extremely positive.

International visitorsPellets 2005 welcomed a noticeable number of in-ternational trade visitors from Europe and from the rest of the world for the fi rst time. Egon Zechmann, Manager of Calimax, explained: – We’re thrilled; we’re experiencing a real fl ood of visitors. It is interest-

ing to note that the fair has now begun to attract an international public.

Interest in the pellet heating alternative is on the increase amongst end customers, too. En-vironmental advantages so far rank as the second most important factor in choosing a pellet heating system. – Financial and commer-cial considerations are uppermost, explained Roland Wurm, Head of Sales in Germany for Windhager Zentralhei-zung GmbH.

The 5th Wood Energy Industry Forum took place on 12th-13th Oc-tober. Over 250 experts and decision-makers found out about the lat-est trends, innovations, and research fi ndings in the pellet industry.

Anders Haaker

Thrilling pellets interest in Stuttgart event

Calimax experienced a real fl ood of visitors at the stand in Stuttgart.

Markus Elsässer and Barbara Pilz from Solar Promotion GmbH organizers of the event.

Hot news 2005

BioWin from Windhager

This new pellet boil-er is replacing the

Windhager PMX. The BioWin is available in three comfort levels and in four sizes rang-ing from 10 to 26 kW.

Biotec Top Light

Top Light is the new product line from

Biotech with a small high tech, easy-to-use pellet boiler ideal for smaller houses with limited space.

KMP Uno

New automat ic pellet boiler with

pneumatic cleaning.


www.bioenergyinternational.comHome heating

The company was founded in 1954 in Porcia (PN)

with the production of concrete pieces for in-terior furnishing, along with industrial manu-facturing of marble for fl oors and coverings

The early 1970’s wit-nessed the first Italian production of complete prefabricated fi replaces, with industrial process-ing systems, which was soon joined by the pro-duction of barbecues and, later, stoves.

In the 1980’s, the company also started the production of whirlpool baths and shower boxes,

Almost 12 000 visitors from a r o u n d t h e

world, eleven per cent more than last year, at-tended this year “IHE WoodEnergy 2005”, “RENEXPO 2005” and “reCONSTRUCT 2005” at Fairground Augsburg from Septem-ber 22 nd-25 th.

Themes at this year’s event ranged from bio-gas to wood energy, from biofuels to fuel cells, geothermal and solar energy to hydro power, passive house to energy effi cient renova-tion and innovative in-sulation.

Over 300 exhibitors, 30 per cent more than last year, presented their products and services on more than 10 000m2 of exhibition space.

– A completely new branch has emerged with interest in heat-

ing with wood. For ex-ample, bakeries, meat shops and craftsman, all fi nd rising heating costs unbearable. Many are here to search for alter-natives and have found them here at the trade fair,” remarked Heinrich Schönmaier from Binder Josef G.m.b.H.

– We are very pleased with the congress, said Bernd Geisen, General Director of the German Federal Association on Bioenergy e.V. (BBE), – 280 delegates and nu-merous quality speakers. The BBE emphasized the progress that “IHE WoodEnergy” has at-tained and its role in pushing the congress to such a high level.

In total, 20 seminars, congresses, workshops and forums accompa-nied this year’s trade fair and welcomed 1,200 delegates to speak

about trends and news from renewable energy and energy efficiency industries. Themes as diverse as vegetable oil, heat pumps and wood gasification were all discussed. An innova-tive new topic like air condition with biomass was also discussed.

Gabriele Rauschen-berg from the KfW Bank-ing Group commended everyone involved on the strong demand and the inquisitiveness of the visitors.

– The people came not only to ask questions and informed themselves but also to received price proposals for a wide range of technologies from energy efficient renovation to solar and pellet heating in both new building construc-tion and energy effi cient housing, according to Rauschenberg.

Visitors arrived from e.g. Australia, China, Is-rael, Japan, Lebanon, Ne-pal, Thailand, the Czech Republic, Hungary and Uruguay.

The export workshop forums from Austra-lia, India and Thailand showed that business in-

volvement in these coun-tries is nearer and easier than most people realize, if it has not already ar-rived. Successful projects and cooperation showed the step towards world-wide exports and pres-ence is fast approaching.

Anders Haaker

11 900 visitors in Augsburg

Ms Andrea Pehn, from Rika showed pellets stoves.

which are marketed un-der the Calyx brand.

In 1985 Palazzetti was a charter member of C.E.A.R. – Consortium for Alternative Energy and Energy Savings of Modena, to which the leading Italian produc-ers of fi replaces belong.

Collaboration

Palazzetti has always dedicated energy and resources to achieve products of the high-est performance, which limit energy consump-tion without giving up performance, with the fullest respect for the en-vironment. To this end, close collaboration has developed with major research institutes and laboratories such as the University of Udine, the Turin Polytechnic, and the Giordano Institute of Bellaria.

Ongoing researchNew consumer behavior which was typical of the 1990’s, and the needs of a better informed and more aware public did not catch the com-pany off guard. Rather, through a coherent ap-plication of the com-pany mission, through painstaking and ongoing research, the firm has proven that it can stay one step ahead of the needs and expectations of the consumer, satisfy-ing the desire for prod-ucts that work properly, look good and are envi-ronmentally friendly.

Provide solutionsAs the new millennium dawns, Palazzetti is even more determined to pro-vide concrete solutions to the consumer public, with high-technology products that are easy

to use and nice to look at. True heating systems with the utmost concern for the environment.

Concerning environment

To confi rm its commit-ment to protecting na-ture, for years Palazzetti has collaborated with and the supported the ac-tivities of the WWF and the Italian Environmen-

tal Protection League, as well as supporting A.V.I.A.M.A., The Ital-ian Association for the Promotion of Tree Cul-tivation and Environ-mental Improvement, in order to increase public awareness of the need to recover uncultivated and abandoned land to be used for lumber pro-duction. Press release of Palazzetti

Fire, water, airThese are the ele-

ments upon which

the Palazzetti Grou-

phas built its history

and its success.

The fi replace Dubai with the double-faced Mono-blocco 66 is a room-centre version offering a great view of the fi re.

Hot news 2005

Ivo.tec from Wodtke

This design award w inn ing pe l l e t

stove/boiler was in-troduced to the mar-ket 2005. The water cooled stove has an output of 3-13 kW.

Watching fire in 16:9 format is

now possible with this wood stove where es-thetics is in focus.

Fire SL from Wodtke

Janfi re Integral

New automatic pel-let boiler, capacity

up to 25 kW.



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Emissions tradingimproves the competitiveness

of bioenergy

In previous issue of the Bioenergy International (5) we published article prepared by Electorwatt-Ekono from Finland but unfortunately the mate-

rial included a graph with shifted fi gures. To compensate for the mistake we now publish

a proper graph where of course the fi gure concern-ing infl uence of the emissions from biofuels is equal zero.

Correction

SwedenNew support

for substitution of oil and elec-trical heating

Ma n y h u n d re d thousands of

single family houses in Sweden are heated with electrical radia-tors.

Electricity prices has been very low but this is not any more the case. Prices has increased and new production plants are being built. The government now also wants to stimulate consumers to change from electricity and oil to e.g. pellets.

From January 1st 2006 a new grant of maximum 3000 Euro is possible to get . The method is to support maximum 30 per cent of labour and material cost.

A total of 40 000 000 Euro a year is available for fi ve years.

Negative reactionsComments from the business in Sweden are mostly negative to this new grant.

The effect when the grant was announced was that the very hot market in October suddenly went ice cold. The consumers wanted to wait for the grant.

The other negative consequence is that when the maximum limit is reached the business fears that the consumers once again will stop their orders and wait for the new year and new grants.

The business also says that there is no need for a grant. The oil and electricity pric-es are high enough for pellets to compete.

Lennart Ljungblom


www.bioenergyinternational.comReport

Since 2002, the time of the Biocenter establishment, the

ranks of the workshop participants have grown, the number of producers of biofuel and its fi ring equipment has increased considerably. This means that there is a positive trend of introduction of environmentally friendly and economically expe-dient methods of biofuel production and biofuel based energy generation in Russia.

The Workshop Agenda included three working sessions: (A) Bioenergy sources now and in the future; (B) Technology and production systems for bioenergy; (C) Envi-ronmental and economy issues for bioenergy.

Wood stocks

D.L.Sokolov, executive director of the NP “The Confederation of the Northwest Timber In-dustry Complex” point-ed that wood stocks in the Northwest Federal District are about 10 bil-lion m3 accounting for 60% of the whole forest vegetation of the Euro-pean part of the country. Half of them are mature and overmature forests.

The prescribed yield in the Northwest Russia is 83 million m3 per an-

num. Only 40% of the prescribed yield is used here, which is much higher than the aver-age index for Russia, amounting to 25%.

Here it is produced 30% of all Russian sawn-goods, 40% of the plywood, 40% of the commercial timber, 50% of the cardboard and 60% of the paper.

PotentialSome 16 315 million m3 of wood wastes are formed in the Northwest region of Russia.

The potential of avail-able today wood wastes in this region is 48 TWh per annum (4.1 million tonnes of equivalent fuel). The annual con-sumption in the region is 94 TWh of electricity (data of the Russian Sta-tistics 2004).

Using of available to-day woody biomass in the regional boiler plants would make it possible to cover the essential part of the region demand in heat and electricity.

ProblemsThe general problem for the Northwest forests is that there is no mar-ket for aspen and alder wood with the stable demand for birch and coniferous wood.

The low-grade un-claimed wood is left on logging sites, because of its transportation from the sites is not compen-sated.

The second problem is that due to big amounts of virgin forests, the quality of forest stands is being degraded, the amount of firewood is growing up and that of commercial timber is decreasing. In connec-tion with that, the issue of utilization of wood residues and low-grade wood is becoming espe-cially urgent in the forest complex.

Five tonnes of wood wastes directly com-busted in furnaces allow saving of 1 ton of black oil or 1000 m3 of natu-ral gas.

State programToday, there are different methods of energy gen-eration from biomass. They include both using of solid fuel in the form of chips, briquettes, pel-lets and production of gas and liquid fuel from wood.

The Confederation of the Northwest Timber Industry Complex with the support of the Au-thorized Representative of the Russian President in the Northwest Fed-

On 16-17 of June, 2005 there was a signifi cant event in the bioenergy

development in Russia: the International Workshop “Bioenergy 2005”

organized by the Russian-Swedish Bioenergy Information and Training

Center (Biocenter), Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU)

and the Swedish Energy Agency (STEM). The event took place in the

city of Veliky Novgorod, Russia. The participants came from Sweden,

Russia, Portugal, Germany, Greece, Spain and Bulgaria

Sustainable biomass management chains to meet requirementsfrom Kyoto

eral District is elaborat-ing a state program of bioenergy development in Northwest Russia. The program is aimed at solving of social, en-vironmental and eco-nomic problems of the District.

Other examplesIn presentations of for-eign participants it was spoken about the estima-tion of energy potential of wood fuel in Europe.

It was noticed the per-manently growing de-

Conference participants during one of the sessions

Tatjana Stern from Swedish University of Agricultural Science presented the analysis of bioenergy development in Sweden and Northwest region of Russia.

mand for biofuel not only produced from wood wastes, but also from ag-ricultural wastes.

The examples of using wood fuel and biofuel for heat supply to hous-ing sector in European countries were given; it was outlined ways of co-operation with Russia in bioenergy area.

N.P. Dmitrieva Veliky Novgorod

More details on the website: www.

rusbiocenter.spb.ru

REEEP receives 3 year funding commitment

from UK Government

Energy and envi-ronment ministers

from 20 countries met in London in Novem-ber to take forward the outcomes from the Gleneagles summit.

At the G8 Dialogue on Climate Change, Clean Energy and Sustainable Develop-ment, the UK Govern-ment announced the provision of signifi cant further funding to sup-port the activities of the Renewable Energy and Energy Effi ciency Partnership (REEEP).

Following on from the £2.5million the UK provided this year by the Environment Ministry, it was an-nounced that a further £2.5 million pounds would be provided in 2006/7 and 2007/8.

In addition, the UK Foreign Ministry also announced the provi-sion of £1million in funding for 2006/7 giving the REEEP a total of £6m from the UK over the coming two years.

The additional fund-ing will provide REEEP with the capabilities to play an important role in helping to take forward the Glenea-gles Plan of Action, increase its global reach by further ex-panding its network of regional secretariats, and support a grow-ing number of indi-vidual projects around the world to develop robust policies, fa-vourable, transparent and stable regulatory frameworks

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Increased use of felling residues in north of SwedenThe use of residues

as branches and tree tops from

fellings is increasing rap-idly in northern parts of Sweden. In the county of Jämtland and Västernor-rland an average of 40 000 hectares are used for fellings. Between 1998 and 2002 residues where

picked up on 500 to 1000 hectares. During 2003 it increased to 1 742 hect-ares and 2004 up to 3 614 hectares. This is represent-ing approximately 360 GWh of energy.

The data is collected by the National Board of Forestry as a result of the obligation to report use

of residues from fellings, if the felling area is bigger than 0,5 hectare.

The Board of Forestry makes an evaluation of every report and will after that give a permission or not to the use of residues, depending on the local conditions.

Anders Haaker

Forestry

Use of residues from fellings (ha) in northern Sweden

Cont. from p 1Gas dispute

The alarming price h ike for crude

oil, the gas dispute between Russia and Ukraine has made one thing very clear:

– We must take ac-tion in the EU to re-duce dependence on fossil energy sources.

– In my capacity as President of the EU Agriculture Council, I have therefore put the biomass action plan on the agenda for the next meeting.

We need to start dis-cussions immediately, so that the action plan can be speedily ad-opted and actively implemented, says Josef Pröll, Federal Minister for Agriculture and Environment in Austria, the country that now holds the presidency in the Eu-ropean Union.

Pröll said that in the coming four years alone, Europe could more than double the use of biomass for energy purposes.

Biomass currently accounts for 69 mil-lion tonnes of energy equivalent in the EU.

EU studies have shown that this could be increased to 189 mi l l ion tonnes by 2010.

– Knock-on effect: between 250 000 and 300 000 jobs in ru-ral areas and savings in CO2 emissions of around 200 million tonnes per annum, Pröll concluded.



New storage and distribution center in UKTallOil AB, a Swedish

biofuels producer,

has opened a UK

storage and distribu-

tion centre for solid

biofuels on Teesside.

In co-operation with

Cleveland Potash

Ltd a 7 000 tonnes

store will be used to

receive shipments

of wood pellets for

onward distribution

to customers in the

north of the UK.

This facility is ex-pected to handle up to 100 000

tonnes of pellets in the fi rst year of operation.

Excellent rail and road links from Tees-port were key factors in the decision to base their UK operations there.

New plans

Plans are now being de-veloped to increase this storage facility to 60 000 tonnes in order to accept large shipments from

TallOil’s own supplies in Europe and North America.

This will make it one of the largest biomass distribution facilities in Europe.

MilestoneHenrik Lundberg, CEO TallOil says, “ This real-ly is a milestone for our activities in the UK mar-ket. For the past couple of years we have been supplying UK utilities with liquid biofuels, but

now we will be adding solid biofuels along with effective and streamlined logistics”

Renewable energy targets

Barry Paterson, Manag-er of TallOil in UK says, “Having such a facility in the N.E. will assist the wide spread estab-lishment of biomass as a secure, environmentally benign and economical replacement for tradi-tional fossil fuels such as

gas and coal in both the industrial and domestic sectors. Thereby helping the region to meet its re-newable energy targets. We have established our offi ce in Castleford near Leeds at the centre of gravity for the coal fi red power station cluster here in Yorkshire. Tal-lOil and TPS have an ex-cellent position to serve the requirements of the market both with fuel, boiler plants and with complete bioenergy so-

lutions from here”

Over two decadesThe TallOil Group has been involved with bio-mass for over 20 years. Having its origin in Sweden it has a wealth of knowledge about the use of biomass fuels and through its daughter company TPS Termiska Processer AB, the com-bustion of biomass. Tal-lOil has its modern UK offi ce in Yorkshire,

The existing heat-ing system is by individual oil

boilers in each of the 20 buildings that will be linked in the new net-work.

There is a swimming pool on site that oper-ates throughout the year and provides a base load of about 1,2 MW.

It is anticipated that a 4MW boiler running on air-dried chip (30% mc) will be needed to supply the completed network.

Network designWindborne has engaged the services of Willy Mårtensson Energi Kon-sult in Kalmar to carry out the network design,

Järnforsen Energi to de-sign the boiler and Silva-gen of the UK to organ-ise a biofuel supply.

Biofuel supplyHere the aim is to reach self-suffi ciency within 5 years by managing the College’s forestry reserves more effi ciently and re-placing felled softwoods

and low grade hard-woods with fast growing species, such as eucalyp-tus and birch.

The chip will be in any case produced and stored on site.

OperationThe Study will be com-pleted and presented by the middle of February,

2006 and the intention is that ReNU will offer an ESCO solution, ie it will take full responsi-bility for installing and managing the heating system as well as the biofuel supply for a pe-riod of a minimum of 20 years.

David JacksonWindborne International

Ampleforth College New bioenergy boiler and heat supply networkReNU has recently awarded Windborne International a Feasibility Study for the provision of a new bioenergy boiler

and heat supply network for the UK’s premier Roman Catholic college at Ampleforth in Yorkshire, northern England.

The college houses a famous Abbey and Benedictine monastery, as well as providing year-round education for some

200 students.

largest that SPC had made and was capable of producing up to 6000 tonnes of pellets annually.

The group stayed at Örjaby Herrgård near Växjö and listened to presentations given by Manuel Swärd and Stefan Olsson of the the South-Eastern Energy Offi ce, Henrik Johansson of Växjö City Council, David Jackson of Windborne International, and Bob Smith of Renewable Fuels (part of Brik-ettEnergi).

The overall aim was to give a rounded view of the history of bioenergy develop-ments in Sweden in various different sec-tors, such as biofuel production, district heating, CHP and combust ion tech-nologies for different scales of operation.

David Jackson Windborne International

Barry Paterson TallOil

Market

l

Study visit from the East Midlands

A group of 15 visitors made the trip from

the East Midlands to Sweden to learn more about Sweden’s ap-proach to bioenergy.

The group included senior management from private sector companies and public sector organisations.

The event was jointly hosted by (Renewable Nottinghamshire Utili-ties) ReNU and Wind-borne International and was funded by EMDA.

The programme in-cluded visits to Hörby to meet Mats Grans-trand, managing di-rector of Järnforsen Energi, and to see the 6,5 MW district heat-ing system recently installed by Järnforsen Energi.

This was followed by a visit to SPC in Ljungby to meet Mi-kael Wallin, managing director of SPC, and to look at the newly completed SP 450 “Twin” pellet machine that had been ordered by ReNU and that was destined for the East Midlands.

The SP 450 was the largest that SPC that had made and was capable of producing up to 6000 tonnes of pellets annually.

The group stayed near Växjö and lis-tened to presenta-tions given by the South-Eastern Ener-gy Office,Växjö City Council, Windborne International, and Re-newable Fuels (part of BrikettEnergi).

David Jackson Windborne Interna-

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Emissions

By substituting fos-sil fuel with bio-mass, the projects

qualify for carbon cred-its which can generate additional income to the project owners.

In the countries of Central and Eastern Europe the relevant Kyoto mechanism is Joint Implementation (JI). In this region there is a huge potential in the district heating sector to reduce CO2 emissions by switching from fossil to biomass fuel.

Such fuel-switch proj-ects qualify for JI co-fi -nancing but individu-ally they are too small to attract the interest of CO2-credit buyers who prefer contracting proj-ects generating at least 50 000-100 000 tonnes of CO2-equivalents in order to minimise unit transaction costs

To utilise the JI poten-

tial of small-scale proj-ects while keeping unit transaction costs down BioHeat International, a subsidiary of BTG Biomass Technology Group, applies a fl exible portfolio concept.

ConceptThe concept involves assembling a set of bioenergy projects of the same or similar type into a bundle characterised by the following features:

·Use of standardised baselines and emission reduction calculations;

·Flexibility allowing failing projects to be re-placed by new projects, thus reducing the risk of a total failure;

·Gradual implemen-tation allowing the set of projects to be imple-mented over a period of several years;

·Involvement of a fi-nancing intermediary be-

tween the credit buyer and the individual projects.

JI portfolio in the Czech Republic

The portfolio concept was fi rst applied in the Czech Republic where BioHeat and BTG put together a portfolio of projects concerning the replacement, renewal, extension or new con-struction of municipal or industrial heating systems, where biomass (wood and straw) boil-ers replace coal or gas-fuelled boilers.

The portfolio was submitted to the first Emission Reduction Unit Procurement Ten-der of the Dutch Gov-ernment.

This bid was success-ful and after negotiations emission reductions up to 522 320 tonnes of CO2-equivalents from the portfolio were sold

to the Dutch govern-ment.

The portfolio contains 14 projects, varying in size from 600 kWth to 9 MWth.

The investment vol-ume is 27 million Euro. The income from selling carbon credits accounts for 10-20% of the in-vestment cost of indi-vidual projects and for a substantial part is paid to the project owners in advance.

Clean Development Mechanism portfolio

in BrazilIn Brazil, BioHeat and its local partner PTZ BioEnergy Ltda. target fuel switch projects in the agro-industry.

The portfolio they de-velop currently includes about 20 industrial co-generation projects that are at different stages of development and vary in

size from 1 to 8 MWe. BioHeat has signed

contracts with leading companies in the rice in-dustry for projects total-ling >1 000 000 tonnes of CO2-equivalents.

The aim is to reach a volume of 5 million tonnes CO2-equivalents by adding more projects, also in other industries (e.g. sugar industry).

The credits will be sold to interested buyers e.g. European companies that have an emission reduction obligation under the EU Emissions Trading Scheme (ETS).

The income project owners receive from selling carbon credits makes a substantial contribution to project viability.

More information: BioHeat International

BV / BTG Biomass Technology Group BV

Bundling of small scale bioenergy projects generates income from

Carbon credits salesUnder the Kyoto Protocol a country can realise part

of its emission reduction target abroad. Carbon credit

trader BioHeat International BV reports about its ex-

perience with the development and implementation of

fuel-switch project portfolios.

On 5th November 2005, BioHeat Director René Venendaal handed over a symbolic cheque of EUR 1 499 999 to the CEO of Brazil’s no. 1 rice processing company Camil. The cheque represents the minimum value of the carbon credits to be generated from just one of Camil’s fuel-switch projects.

GEF project in Slovenia will be fi nalised in 2006

The project GEF in Slovenia, initiated

in 2002 is finalising next year.

The short-term ob-jectives of project GEF are to encourage and implement three to fi ve wood biomass district heating systems and to prepare investment documentation for at least 20 similar heating systems.

The GEF project out-comes achieved so far are good.

Different trainings events took place and an excellent informa-tion network was set up.

36 studies for bio-mass district heating are ready and two bio-mass district heating plants have been put into operation.

The first one was launched in May 2005 in Vransko (BioInt. no3) and the second one at the beginning of Oc-tober in Kocevje. Two or three new biomass district heatings are to be cofounded by GEF next year.

Janez Podobnik( to the right), Slovenian Environment Minister opened on the first Saturday of October a biomass district heating plant in Kocevje. Frac Beravs, member of the Ecofund Board was one of the last guests to join Janko Veber, Mayor of Kocevje. Sonja Veber, Headmistress of primary school Stara Cerkev to the left.

Martina Sumenjak



The bioenergy business sends its very best season’s greetings to all friends and global readers.

The view outside the editors window is now extremely beautiful with snow covered trees.

The smooth way to fi nd direct links to the bioenergy business is to visit www.novator.se/business05/jul2005.html or use the link at www.bioenergyinternational.com.



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Nature powerPellets-Expo

From 27th to 29th June 2006, the 4th

edition of Pellets-Expo will be held in Bydgo-szcz, Poland.

Last time, more than 50 companies were presenting themselves during three days of the event. There were exhibitors from Po-land, Germany, Italy, Sweden, Switzerland, Austria, Ukraine and the Netherlands.

The stands were pre-senting a large number of devices and com-plete process lines for production of pellets, sawdust briquettes and other materials, state-of-the-art hot water boilers, fi replac-es, burners, automat-ics and accessories for biomass boiler rooms etc.

A conference titled “Pellets is that profi t-able, two years of ex-perience” was held for the third time during the fair. It outlined the question of the pel-lets and energy com-ing from renewable sources of energy. The lecturers were talking about the biomass market development in Poland, the quality issues of wood pellets, possibilities of produc-ing the pellets from se-lected energetic plants, as well as important possibilities of fi nancial support of investments using renewable sourc-es of energy. www.ctpik.com.pl

Three months af-ter the hurricane Rita the road

from Lake Charles to Cameron county is still not safe to travel. The road is covered with nails and pieces of debris from demolished buildings in the villages. Almost ev-ery building in Grand Chenier was destroyed in the hurricane.

Piles of treesThick branches are still on the road and fallen pine trees are visible everywhere beside the road. Here and there you see enormous piles of trees.

It seems that at least some of the logs are being transported to power plants fueled by biomass. Several com-panies in Louisiana has expressed interest of us-ing damaged wood for

energy purpose, how-ever not enough of the wood debris is used for energy, according to the bioenergy business.

Enormous resource– Ten per cent of the an-nual electricity need in USA could be supplied by hurricane damaged forests. The waste of a natural growing re-sources is enormous.

– Last year almost 50 million tonnes of wood material was left in Florida after the four consecutive hurricanes, explained Joseph C. Murray, managing di-rector of Greeen Energy Resources at a press conference in Baton Rouge.

This could have sup-plied 200 biomass fueled power plants of 250 MW each and reduced import of energy and saved tenth of billions of dollars, ac-cording to him.

Export to EuropeThis year Green Energy resources has started to export 2 millions tonnes

of wood chips and pel-lets from the southern states of USA to Europe. Murray sees a possibili-ty to sell another million tonnes of damaged for-est wood to the power plants in the northeast of USA.

Forest ownersAlmost half of Louisi-ana is covered with for-est. The forest industry is supported by 60 mu-nicipalities. There are 148 000 forest owners, of which 62 per cent are private owners.

Six per cent The environmental writer Stanley E. Mana-han writes in his latest book, Environmental Chemistry, that if USA would use 6 per cent of

it’s land area for grow-ing crops for energy, that would correspond to the same amount of energy produced from fossil resources.

Important roleBiomass is the second largest renewable en-ergy source after hydro power and our federal administration is begin-ning to understand the important role of the pulp- and paper indus-try in the development of an increased use of biomass, says Jerry G. Whatley, agricultural economist at Louisiana Agrocenter.

RebuildingAccording to him the economical cost for the forest industry and agri-

cultural sector in Loui-siana due to the hurri-cane can be estimated to more than one billion dollars.

Whatley is though optimistic in a typical American way.

– It’s just a matter of building it up again, I’m expecting that some of the 70 billion dollars that the US congress decided to use to cover damages from the hurricane are destined to the forest owners and farmers in southwest Louisiana, says Jerry Whatley.

Need for changeAccording to him the hurricane has put the spotlight on the need of changing the dependence of fossil oil.

The hurricanes Catrina

and Rita has pointed to a crisis shown in lack of refi ned products and all-time-high prices on oil, ex-plains Jerry Whatley. This has already started a new thinking in many states.

Follow KyotoJerry is referring to an example where nine American states that, after an initiative from the democrat governor George Pataki, promised to independently follow the guidelines set in the Kyoto agreement, con-cerning emissions from the industry.

Reduce emissionsConnecticut, Delaware, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island and Vermont has set targets to reduce emissions from power plants with at least 10 per cent until 2020.

California, Washing-ton and Oregon has started the process of reaching similar agree-ments.

Markku Björkman

The American hurricaneUSA experienced two of it’s worst natural catastrophes so far in the

end of August and the beginning of September, when the hurricanes

Catrina and Rita hit Louisiana and Mississippi. More than 1200 people

died and hundreds of thousands of cubic metres of forest was de-

stroyed. A new discussion of renewable energy sources has risen as

a result of the increased oil prices after the hurricanes.

Jerry G. Whatley from Lousiana Agrocenter pointing at damaged areas.

Business opportunity

Rebuild Louisiana, A l a b a m a a n d

Mississippi. Check web s i te www. l r l .usace.army.mil/Disas-terEquip/



The background shows that ex-traction of har-

vest residues has gained more and more interest in recent years, and it is also performed at an increasing rate in some countries.

An effect of the in-tensifi ed harvest is that the export of nutrients and acid buffering sub-stances from the forests is increased.

Ash recyclingWood ash can be used to compensate forest soils for such losses. In the long term, ash recycling may prove to be an es-sential path to sustain-ability.

Today, most wood fuel ash is deposited in landfi lls. If this ash in-stead would be recycled, wood energy could be produced sustainably and without any signifi -cant waste production.

Demonstration projectIn order to create better conditions for a regular recycling of wood ash, the Regional Forestry Board of Värmland - Örebro and the Swedish National Board of For-estry took the initiative to creating a LIFE-Envi-ronment demonstration project.

The project is devel-oping, analysing and demonstrating regular ash-recycling systems.

Ash recycling International seminarSome 75 bioenergy professionals from 16

countries visited the seminar held by the LIFE-

environment demonstration project RecAsh

in Prague 8-9 November. The focus was to

disseminate fi ndings and to discuss how ash

recycling is best organised with respect to

ecological, technical, economic, logistic and

administrative aspects.

It distributes knowl-edge gathered about motives for ash recy-cling as well as techni-cal and administrative solutions through hand-books, workshops, fi eld demonstrations, and seminars, web page and information videos.

SeminarMr Ivo Kupka from the Faculty of Forest and Environment at Czech Agricultural Univer-sity lead the seminar, which was divided into three themes.

The fi rst theme was ”Strategies, politics, legisla-tion and im-plementation tools” with p r e s e n t a -tions by Dan Asplund, Pres-ident of the Eu-ropean Biomass Association and Erik Sandström, Swedish National Board of Forestry. They both pointed out forest fuels as an important tool to reach environmental targets in Europe.

Mr Jan. Habart, Czech Biomass Associa-tion held a speech about the present situation of use of biomass and leg-islation in the Czech Republic.

TripThe second theme was

“Scientific knowledge and research”. Jakub Hruska, Czech Geologi-cal Survey introduced ef-fects of acidic deposition on terrestrial ecosystems in the Czech Republic. Moreover, Dr Hruska organised a separate fi eld trip to Jizerske hory Mountains the day after the seminar at which typical effects such as

magnesium deficiency were demonstrated.

ResearchOlle Westling Swedish Environmental Research Institute and Erik Karl-tun Department of For-est Soils SLU informed about relevant research and research reviews

carried out in Sweden, while Morten Ingerslev and Inge Stupak Möller from Danish Centre for Forest, Landscape and Planning informed about the situation in Denmark.

Noora Näsi and Sirpa Piirainen, Finnish Re-search Institute MET-LA, presented Finnish research about ash on peatland and Sandor Csetse from University of Pecs talked about wood and grass ash recycling in southern Hungary.

PracticeThe third theme was ”Wood Ash recycling in practice”.

I n t h i s theme, the

RecAsh-proj-ect staff and

partners intro-duced resul ts

from the ongoing project combined

with presentations of the actual situation

of forest fuel extraction and ash recycling in Sweden and Finland.

An information video and a draft handbook were introduced, both with the title ”From Ex-traction of Forest Fuels to Ash recycling”.

Markkuu Paanan-en and Tytti Laitinen Jyväskylä Science Park described the situation in Finland.

J akob Hi r smark SVEBIO and Erik Ling Sveaskog introduced the corresponding situation in Sweden.

Hillevi Eriksson from the National Board of Forestry introduced the Swedish ”Recommenda-tions for the extraction of forest fuels and com-pensation fertilising”.

Sirkku Sarenbo, Uni-versity of Kalmar in-troduced a compaction method for ash treat-ment in order to harden the ash.

Anders Nordin from Umeå University pre-sented a heat treatment method for reducing heavy metal contents in contaminated ashes.

ConclusionAll themes were fi nalised with conclusions, dis-cussion and questions under the guidance by Mr Ivo Kupka from Faculty of Forestry and Environment in Czech Agricultural University in Prague who served as seminar facilitator with fi rm authority.

The draft handbook and the presentations from the seminar along with much other inter-esting information can be downloaded from the RecAsh homepage, www.recash.info

Stig EmilssonLars Andersson

SVVST

ReportBiomass up-draft gasifi ca-

tion power plant in Japan

JFE Engineering in Japan has signed

its fi rst contract for an advanced biomass gas i f icat ion p lant based on the Bab-cock & Wilcox Vølund updraft gasifi er tech-nology.

The new plant is owned by Yamagata Green Power Co. Ltd. and will be lo-cated in Murayama City in Yamagata Pre-fecture. Operation is expected to begin in February 2007.

The plant will pro-duce 2000 kW of power on the basis of 60 tons of wood -chips per day. The new biomass plant will mainly be fi red with wood-chips from cut-tings of cherry trees.

– Our plant is the fi rst high efficiency state of the art combined heat and power plant based on an updraft gasifi er in Japan. It is likely that many such high effi ciency plants are required in Japan for power generation based on biomass. Therefore, this plant becomes a very im-portant initiative in the Japanese renewable energy sector to help increase the biomass share out of the total energy in Japan and to meet the targets in the Kyoto-protocol” says Mr. Suzuki, President of Yamagata Green Power Co. Ltd.

The project has received support from the Agency for Natural Resources and Energy of METI (Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry). www.volund.dk



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EventsClean Energy

Power

Worldwide inter-est in renewable

energy and energy savings is steadily growing.

The international trade fair “Clean energy power 2006“ will pres-ent 15 events around the themes of renew-able energy and energy efficient construction and renovation at the ICC Berlin on January 18th and 19th.

Innovative topics to be discussed will in-clude wave energy and solar drying of sewage sludge. Those inter-ested in international markets can attend events dedicated to export and climate protection projects. The Energy Passport Programme will also be discussed.

The accompany-ing 2-day exhibition provides insight into the latest products and market develop-ments.

Trade fair visitors and end-consumers will both fi nd the event interesting. Expected at the 2-day event are 1500 visitors from over 30 countries.

800 delegates are expected to partici-pate at the various congresses, work-shops, symposiums and forums. CEP is aimed at representa-tives from agriculture, trade and industry, science and research, communities, organi-sations, building in-dustry, building con-tractors, architects and engineers, in-vestors as well as all those interested in renewable energy or energy effi ciency.

Miriam Hegner


www.bioenergyinternational.comPoliticsCongress in

Bulgaria

2nd International Congress on En-

ergy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Sources; Financing Mechanisms for Im-plementation will take place in Sofia, Bul-garia from 8th till 10th March 2006.

The Congress will be held under the aus-pices of the Bulgarian Ministry of Economy and Energy and Min-istry of Regional De-velopment and Public Works, and it will also be supported by Eu-ropean and national organizations working in the fi eld of EE and RES.

The Draft Program consists of two main sections Current Sta-tus of the EE & Renew-able Energy Market in Europe and European and Regional RE & EE Investment Cli-mate; Public Policy as Driver in Finance. Lecturers will provide relevant information on retrofi tting of exist-ing buildings, EE and Transport – alternative fuels and vehicles, RES applications in industry, construc-tion and household, Energy Management and security.

In the second sec-tion important topics like analysis of the cur-rent fi nancing mecha-nisms for Retrofi tting of existing buildings are included, Innova-tive fi nancing instru-ments and incentives schemes to stimulate the RES & RUE in-vestments, attracting fi nance for your proj-ects, project develop-ment process.

More info on www.viaexpo.com

Hermann Scheer presented at the end of the Parliametary Forum also Bonn 2005 Declaration.

Klaus Toepfer speach before he receive Einstein Aword.

World Renewable Energy Assembly.

Mohammed Ismail Khann, Minister of Energy and Water presenled the energy solution in Afganistan .

Hermann Scheer was also aworded with Einstein Aword.

Sigmar Gabriel, new German Minister for the Enwironment together with Christa Thoben, Minister of Economic Affairs and Energy of the Stata of NorthRhine Westphalia, Hermann Sheer in and Irm Pon-tenagel

THE BIOENERGY International best wishes to the Germany Environ- ment Minister for the new Year.

Bonn november 2005

More than 450 representa-t ives f rom

politics and parliaments, from science and indus-try as well as NGOs and social movements met in Bonn from Novem-ber 26th to 30th, 2005, following an invitation of the World Council for Renewable Energy (WCRE).

No time to waste is a very important global event for the near fu-ture renewable energy era, which should not be overlooked. The point of culmination of the event was the Solar-

World Einstein Award, given for the fi rst time in 2005 for outstand-ing dedication to solar energy and sustainable use of natural resources. Hermann Scheer and Klaus Toepfer were hon-oured for their lifetime worldwide creation of a sustainable energy sup-ply system.

The World Renew-able Energy Assembly (WREA) was organised by EUROSOLAR, sup-ported by the NRW State Initiative on Fu-ture Energies, by the NRW Energy Agency, UNESCO, EUFORES,

ISES (International So-lar Energy Society), and others.

New organization needed

At the 2nd International Parliamentary Forum on Renewable Energies, parliamentarians from 50 countries agreed that the proliferation and ap-plication of renewable energies could only be reached through a sepa-rate new international institution.

International gov-ernmental institutions reflect this discrimina-tion of renewable en-

ergy. The International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) promotes the proliferation of nuclear technology, the Interna-tional Energy Agency (IEA) is operating as a satellite of the fossil en-ergy industry.

Both are misleading governments by playing down risks of nuclear and fossil energy and by negating the potentials of renewable energy.

The promotion of nuclear power is fixed in international right, in contrary to renewable energy. The fossil and nuclear energy system

still receives around 500 billion US Dollar of sub-sidies annually, about 50 times more than renew-able energy.

Therefore the World Renewable Energy As-sembly (WREA) 2005 in Bonn/Germany has ended with the adoption of the fi nal communiqué entitled “The Human Right to Renewable Energy”.( http://www.wcre.org )

The World Renewable Energy Assembly 2006 will be themed

“Energy Independence for all.”

Martina Sumenjak

Presented the declaration of the Human Right to Renewable Energy

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World Sustain-able Energy Days 2006

The World Sustain-able Energy Days

2006 is organised from 1-3 March 2006 in Wels/Austria by the O.Oe. Energiesparver-band, the energy agen-cy of Upper Austria.

The organizers offer a unique combination of events on sustain-able energy produc-tion and use, includ-ing energy effi ciency and renewable energy sources for buildings, industry and trans-port.

The events bridge the gap between R&D and markets, between industry and institu-tions.

In addition to five conferences, which present the latest tech-nology trends, out-standing examples and European strategies in different fi elds, the “Energiesparmesse”, an important energy exhibition, and discus-sion panels offer op-timal opportunities to establish new partner-ships for innovation, environment protec-tion and business.

The p rog ramme comprises the follow-ing events:

•European Energy Effi ciency Conference

•Conference “Green Heating & Cooling”

•European Pellets Forum

•Conference “Green electricity for Europe’s regions”

•Seminar “Green Energy Business – new clients, new markets”

More information on the conference is available under www.wsed.at

O.Oe. Energiesparverband


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FEBRUARY16 - 17 Biofuels Markets Brussels Belgium www.biofuelsmarkets.com18 - 19 Clean Energy Power Berlin Germany www.energy-server.com 9 - 12 Bioenergy World 2006 Verona Italy www.bioenergy-world.com Exhibition & ConferenceMARCH 1 - 3 World Sustainable Energy days Wels Austria www.esv.or.at 8 - 10 Int. Congress on Energy Effi ciency Sources Sofi a Bulgaria www.viaexpo.com10 - 12 Erneuerbare Energien 2006 Böblingen Germany www.erneuerbare energien.com International Fair and Congress for Renewable Energy 22 - 23 Enex, fair of renewable sources of energy Kielce Poland www.enex.pl27 - 28 Biofuels Markets Latin America Rio de Janeiro Brazil www.greenpowerconferences.com 29 - 30 Carbon Markets Latin America Rio de Janeiro Brazil www.greenpowerconferences.com29 - 30 Green Power CIS St Petersburg Russia www.greenpowerconferences.com

APRIL28 - 30 The 7th China International Enviromental Shanghai China www.goodwill-exh.com.hk Protection and ConferenceMAY30 - 1 World Bioenergy 2006 - Jönköping Sweden www.worldbioenergy.se Conference & Exhibition on Biomass for Energy12 - 13 International Picninc of Renewable Energy Nowe Miasto Poland www.gemi.info/

JUNE 8 - 10 Forexpo Bilbao Spain [email protected] 7 - 10 Wood Energy Solutions North Karelia Finland www.wenet.fi Wenet Conference, Study tours, Silva exhibition16 - 18 Euroforest, large exhibition in a real forest Dijon Cedex France www.euroforest2006.com27 - 29 Pellets Expo, International fair of devices Bydgoszcz Poland www.ctpik.com.pl and technologies for pellet industri - Biofuels Markets Asia Bangkok Thailand www.greenpowerconferences.com - Carbon Markets Asia Hong Kong www.greenpowerconferences.com - Renewable Energy Finance Asia Hong Kong www.greenpowerconferences.com

JULY12 - 16 Interforst 2006 10th International Trade Fair for München Germany www.interforst.de Forestry and Forest Technology

SEPTEMBER 6 - 8 Clean power, Combustion solutions for waste, Lahti Findland www.cleanpower2006.fi Local Energy and Industrial By-products11 - 13 5th European Motor Bio Fuels Forum Newcastel United Kingdom www.europoint-bv.com/biofuels2006 - Green Power Central & Eastern Europe Budapest Hungary www.greenpowerconferences.com27 - 28 Forexpo, Forestry and Wood Aquitaine France www.forexpo.fr

OCTOBER18 - 20 Trade for decentralized Energy Technology, Nürberg Germany www.enkon-dezentral.de19 - 22 Expo Bioenergia Valladolid Spain www.expobioenergia.com19 - 22 IHE - WoodEnergy 2006 Augsburg Germany www.ihe-woodenergy.com19 - 22 RENEXPO 2006 Augsburg Germany www.renexpo.com26 - 29 Energietage Aachen Germany www.aachener-energietage.de

MAY-JUNE31 - 2 Elmia Wood Jönköping Sweden www.elmia.se

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