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EU pilot to set up practical bioenergy heat plants and fuel chains in Spain, Germany and Lithuania.

European Commission has approved 2 million Euro budget for a project consortium to set up practical demonstrations of bioenergy heat plants in Barnim (Germany) East-Lithuania, Catalonia (Spain), Finland and Marvão, Portugal.

Particular attention will be paid on creating a complete bioenergy fuel market place and fuel chain from forests - “wood-to-energy”. The project consortium will develop an example of complete working bioenergy fuel chain including training material to develop human resources for various SME operators, right technical solutions for each pilot area, and business models for SMEs who consider to enter this business.

Current understanding is that the lack of proper market structure for bioenergy fuel is preventing wider use of bioenergy. A proper marketplace requires existence of several SME suppliers and several end users.

Project experts

This 5EURES project will bring the best experts in these areas to work together. The project is co-ordinated by Jyvaskyla Science Park in Central Finland.

Central Finland region is recognized as a fore-runner in biomass utilization in energy production. Today 45 % of the total primary energy consumption (traffic included) is covered by biomass, dominantly by wood. It‘s utilized in different scales from domestic usage up to co-generation. Learning curve is rather long, starting from 1960’s. During years 1993 to 1997 a large demonstration project “Central Finland Forest Energy Project” was carried out targeting to creation of regional wood fuel market structure. The project succeeded excellently.

Finland has set a national target to increase utilization of renewable energy sources by 50% until year 2010. Target for bioenergy usage in heating of buildings is 0.8 Mtoe, which means 4-folds increment compared to usage in year 1997.

EU needs bioenergy

The European Commission’s White Paper of 1997 set for 2010 a target of 12 % RES contribution to the EU’s gross inland energy consumption. The EU Renewable Electricity Directive sets specific regulations as well as specific RES-E indicative targets for each EU member states. The EU Biofuels Directive addresses renewables for the transport sector and sets indicative targets for each member state by 2010. These targets together sum up to roughly 7 % of the EU’s gross en-ergy consumption. So, 5 % is still missing, corresponding to circa 80 Mtoe. This additional 5 % can come only from renewable heating and cooling.

Project work

The main Work Packages are development of sufficient know-how among the target group, development and promotion of right technical and operational models, development of right business models and dissemination of the results. The best supply chains will be demonstrated in co-operation with technology suppliers. The final outcome will be five well-documented regional biomass based RES-Heat pilots with further plans to set up more similar operations and a synthetic review and conclusions for EU –wide implementation. New RES-Heat based businesses will also be stimulated.

Direct outcome of the project are five pilot RES-heat markets, which serve the European and national renewable energy policies by providing practical acting examples, development benches for priming practical operations, possibilities to review RES-heat markets at overview and detailed level, training and information dissemination tools and places where to start-up new businesses under favourable conditions. The RES-heat pilots serve also energy policy makers by providing feed-back

Short term results

In short term the project creates a forum for know-how transfer between European regions and internally in each region. As the outcome of the project, all key-people related to setting up regional RES-heat market in five regions will have sufficient know-how to set up RES based heating systems.

Other direct outcomes are:

• Feasibility studies of the most potential RES-heat technologies and operation models in five different operation conditions.
• Limited number of individual case studies (average 4 case studies per region) for the most promising sites in every region.
• Completely and partly demonstrated RES-heat production chains by temporary and permanent arrangements, depending on the maturity of the investment decision-making. The production chains will be monitored and documented.
• Description and development schemes of the pilot regions.
• Training programmes and training materials.
• 20 Business plans or start-ups of new businesses in RES-heat.
• Preliminary technology transfer arrangements.
• Information dissemination actions and materials for wider utilization of the results.

Long term impact

This project provides an initiative and development tool for the RES-heat pilot regions. The pilots will serve renewable energy development and promotion work in long term according to the development and utilization schemes created in the project. Piloting actions can support local policies to develop regional centres of expertise in bioenergy. The pilot regions can be used by authorities to develop their knowledge in bioenergy related matters. Training organizations can use the physical facilities established in the area in their own training program.

Target groups and key actors

The key-people needed for realization of the RES-heat pilots are:

• Facility holders among local industry, public sector, services and some major private buildings (to be involved in the project team).
• Existing and potential local energy suppliers (to be involved in the project team).
• Farmers, forest owners and wood-processing industry (to be involved in the project team).
• Existing and potential contractors and entrepreneurs (to be involved in the project team).
• Local administration and authority in charge of spatial planning and permitting (LOI, member of the Steering Committee).
• Local development agency (partner).
• Engineering company specialized in bioenergy (partner).
• Expertise organization in forestry and agriculture (partner).
• Training organisation (partner).
• One of the key-organizations takes the leader role in developing and utilizing the pilot area. In order to succeed in realization and developing of the pilot regions they must enjoy national and regional authorities support and have a recognized role in implementation of renewable energy strategy. This is important in order to create enough favourable conditions in the regions for realization of demonstrations. This means in practice:
• The RES-Heat pilot projects are presented to local authorities and discussed about their importance and role in regional energy policy.  
• The demonstrated systems are favoured in permitting.
• Some public owned buildings join the project and the others prioritise RES-heat systems in their energy supply.
• Public bodies provide maximal incentives to businesses and investments related to RES-heat systems. Some extra support is welcomed, because the project has wide general value.
• Public bodies and other major market actors provide working time, materials (e.g. energy wood) and facilities to the project’s use.

Project partners are:

1. JSP - Jyväskylä Science Park (Finland)

Mr Markku Paananen

Box 27, FI40101 Jyväskylä, Finland

Tel +358144451116

2. Metla - Finnish Forest Research Institute (Finland)

Mr Antti Asikainen

Box 68, 80101 Joensuu, Finland

Tel +358102113250

3. VTT Processes – Technical Research Institute (Finland)

Mr Arvo Leinonen

Koivurannantie 1, 40100 Jyväskylä, Finland

Tel +35814672677

4. NCP - North Karelia Polytechnic (Finland)

Mr Markus Huhtinen

Väisälänkatu 4, FI80160 Joensuu

Tel +358132606958

5. LUVA - Jyväskylä Polytechnic / Institute of Natural Resources (Finland)

Mr Tero Vesisenaho

JAMK/LUVA Uuraistentie 240B, 43130 Saarijärvi, Finland

Tel +358405934916

6.FINPRO

Mr Jyrki Pöysti

Finpro, 177 Hammersmith Road, London W6 8BS, UK

Tel +44 208 600 7260

Ms Heta Pyhälahti

Finpro Berlin - Finnisches Aussenhandelsbüro

Kurfürstendamm 183, 10707 Berlin, Germany

Tel. +49 (0)30 25 20 2017

Mr Samuli Seilonen

Finpro Spain, Fernando el Santo, 27, 2ºA, E-28010 Madrid, Spain

Tel: +34-91-308 4715 / +34-650 736 149

7. CEBra  - Centre for Energy Technology Brandenburg GmbH (Germany)

Mr Georg Wagener-Lohse

Friedlieb-Rungestrasse 3, 03046 Cottbus 03046 Cottbus, Germany

Tel +491735353105

8. FHE University of Applied Science Eberswalde (Germany)

Ms Severine Laufer

Friedrich-Ebertstrasse 28, 116225 Eberswalde, Germany

Tel +4933341657346

9. DMAH - Direcció General de Medi Natural (Catalonia, Spain)

Mr Xavier Clopés Alemany

Sevvei de Gestio Forestal, Direccio General de Medi Natural, Dr.Roux,80, 08017 Barcelona, Spain

Tel +34935674200

10. SE - UAB Suomijos energija (Lithuania)

Mr Vitalijus Zuta

P.Luksio str. 32, LT08222 Vilnius

Tel +37052747033

11. FOAL - Forest Owners Association of Lithuania (Lithuania)

Mr Algis Gaizutis

Kalvariju Str. 131-134, LT08221 Vilnius

Tel +37052767590

12. IST - Institut Superior Técnico (Portugal)

Mr  Mario Costa

Cepartamento Eng. Mecanica, Instituto Superior Technico, Av. Rovisco Pais, 1049-001 Lisboa Portugal

Tel +351218417186

13. IrRADIARE - Investigação e Desenvolvimento em Engenharia e Ambiente, Lda (Portugal)

Ms Elsa Nunes 

Rua de Goa, 16- 2º Esq. Apartado 20, 2796-901 Linda a Velha- Lisboa, Portugal