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Gas dispute: Prll puts biomass

action plan on Councils agenda
ollowing 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
elcome to another issue of the Bioenergy International, paper version.

As You probably know, we do also have an
internet based magazine which you will find at www.
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This year we have increased the tempo in our production. The paper version is published 6 times and
the ambition is that the web version will be updated
each day.
We do also establish cooperation in different coun-
tries with local editions. The first one is already printed in

Poland and more is to follow. We invite interested professionals to become a reporter, an agent or a franchise taker.
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elcome to this years update of the

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
The
Pellets map
2005/06
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 - its impossible. But any how the
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We have chosen not to include plants with smaller
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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,
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Pellets
Editorial content
Pellet Map
Introduction
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
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
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Harbours in UK
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German Fire Stixx

Holz Energi even
more hot
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Wood pellet industry

update from North
America
13
CompactTec - next
year 140 000 t.
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Hot news 2005
14
Pellets interest in
Stuttgart event
14
11900 visitor in
Augsburg
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Fire, water, air
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New support for substitution of oil and

electrical heat
16
Page 4
Pellets
Pellets - so hot
E
ven the most sceptical 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 consumers, like oil?
And - the answer
is yes. Pellets is now
proven to be a good
alternative in very different markets.
We have the small
scale user, the dominating 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 heating and power plants.
Pellets enough?
Is some specific 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 therefore 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 harvested whole trees in large
scale operations.
We have huge potentials 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 options. Residues from
the food industry, straw
from the fields 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 therefore put more effort in
designing pellets in optimized way.
This will be an important issue to find well
working standards for.
Production regions
We do not have a world
wide integrated pellets
market, but for large
scale users and large
scale importers the fuel
business are global.
Europe north
Volume 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 find the three largest market suppliers in
the business;
Vapo from Finland,
SBE from Sweden and
BBG from Latvia.
And what about Russia? They are coming,
but they have still problems to solve regarding
logistics.
Central Europe
Austria and Germany has
become big in small scale
use of pellets. The equipment producers are also
high class and fast growing. Countries like Tjeckien, Slovakia, Slovenien,
France and Switzerland
are increasing their production and the use.
Western Europe
Here we have a waked
up tiger in consumption.
The coal and gas crisis
has hit hard.
Europe south
Italy is the regional pellets king. Lots of small
production units and a
Emission trading
top class industry for

equipment and focus
also in agro pellets.
Eastern Europe,
Asia, South America,
Africa, Australia
Lots of possibilities not
so much done, but what
a potential!!
It will take time to get
the smooth operation.
Japan has huge consumption, huge forests
and almost no pellets
for example and China
has just started their first
program for bioenergy.
Brazil we know have
skills etc etc.
North America
Finally Canada and the
United states. Pellets
are here used in specific
regions and mostly in
small towns in rural areas. But we do also have
some very large suppliers that delivers by ship
to Western Europe.
Lennart Ljungblom
List of pellets plants
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Sustainable biomass
management chains
to meet requirements
from Kyoto
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REEP receives three
year founding
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Gas dispute, cont. from
page 1.
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Increased use of
felling residues
in north of Sweden 18
New storage and
distribution center
in UK
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New bioenergy boiler

and heat supply
network
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Study visit from the
East Midlands
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GEF project in Slovenia finalised in 2006 20
Bundling of small
scale bioenergy
projects generates
income from carbon
credits sales
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Greetings 2006
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Pellet Expo
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Austria
1 Binder Franz/Jenbach und Fgen/Zillertal
2 BioStar/Eberschwang
3 Glechner/Mattighofen
4 Hasslacher Holzwerke/Ktschach-Mauthen
5 Holzindustrie Leitinger/Wernersdorf
6 Holzindustry Preding/Preding
7 Pabst Holzindustrie /Obdach
9 Loitzl Holz/Steinach
10 Pfeifer/Kundl
11 Seppele Peter/Feistritz an der Drau
13 kowrme/Ybbs
14 Holzindustrie Preding/Leoben
15 Seppele Peter/Sachsenburg
Belarus
1 Belameks/Gomel/Byelorussia
2 BRM/Minsk
Belgium
1 Exinor SA Wood pellets/Malmedy
2 Granubois/Bievres
Bulgaria
1 Axis/Sofia
Canada
1 Pellet Flame Inc/BC
2 Pinnacle Pellet/BC
3 Premim Pellet/BC
4 princeton Co-Generation Corp./BC
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Armstrong/BC
Pacific Bioenergy Corp/BC
Dansons-Vanderwell/Alberta
Energex/Quebec
Advanced Wood/New Brunswick
Shaw Resources/New Brunswick
Mactara/Nova Scotia
Czech Republic
Enviterm a.s./Zdirec nad Doubravou
Jesenik Biofuels/Opava
Denmark
Vapo/Vildbjerg
Vapo/Vejen
Energie E2/Kge
Bodilsen/Glyngre
Assens Trpiller/Assens
Dangront/Aars
Rode & Rode Traimil/Frederikshavn
A/S Spanvall/Jrslev
Estonia
BBG - Hansa Graanul/Patkula
AS Flex Heat/Rakvere
Delcotec AS/Paide
Tootsi Granul/Vapo Group/Prnu
Hansa AS Graanul Invest/Paide
Finland
Parkanon Pellet/Parkano
Vapo Oy/Turenki Pellet Factory
50 000
140 000
80 000
10 000
20 000
80 000
5 000
6 000
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American hurricane 22
International seminar
on ash recycling
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Biomass updraft gasification power plant
in Japan
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Clean energy power 24
World renewable
energy assembly
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80 000
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Congress in Bulgaria 25
World Sustainable
Energy days 2006
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Calendar
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70 000
cont. page 6
Page 5
Pellets
Vapo - world
market leader
in fuel pellets
he Finnish based
company Vapo is
probably the world
largest pellet company.
We do now have
activities in Finland,
Sweden, Denmark,
Russia, Estonia, Latvia and Poland and
we are growing.
It is not more than
two months ago since
we bought three Danish production plants
from Statoil Denmark
and started a cooperation with them for the
market development,
says Tommi Ruha,
director of Refined
Fuels in Vapo
List of pellets plants cont. from page 5

Tommi Ruha
This we think is
the correct solution for
Denmark.
In other countries
we run the market activities ourselves, says
Tommi Ruha.
Vapo is totally dominating in Finland and
is also big in Sweden.
The company has established itself in Russia 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 agripellets, they have large
market possibilities.
Lennart Ljungblom
Page 6
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Vapo Oy/Kaskinen Pellet Factory/Kaskinen
Vapo haminan Puunjalostus Oy/metskyl
Vapo Lapin Ekolmp Oy/Ilomantsi Plant, Ilomantsi
Vapo Lapin Ekolmp Oy/Keminmaa
Scanpell Oy/Krsmki
Vapo Oy/Haukineva pellet factory/haukineva
Paahtopuu Oy/Korkeakoski/Juupajoki
Luoman wood pellets Oy/Ylistaro
Lnsi Suomen Biopower/Vammala
Keurak Oy/Keuruu
Savon Bioenergia/Rantasalmi
Jannpellet Oy/Paltamo
Formados Oy/Kuusamo
France
Cogra 48/Mende
SAS Fontaine des Auges/Gendrey
SCA/Baigneux les Juifs
Savoie Pan/Tournon
Sofag/Arc sous Cicon
Archimaud Ets./Brioux Boutonne
Alpha Luzerne/Pratz
Euroluz/Pauvres
Sodem ets Marchais/Broue
Vert Deshy/Meximieux
Germany
Assenmacher/Ormont
Westerwlder/Langenbach
Trocknungsgenossenschaft/Neuhof an der Zenn
CompacTec/Straubing
Pellinos Holzpellets/Hallbach
FireStixx/Regen
Ante-Holz/Bromskirchen-Somplar
Holzenergie Klaus Fallert/Appenweier
Trocknungsgenossenschaft Weissenburg/Ellingen
Lockfisch/Bobingen
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Gregor Ziegler GmbH/Plssberg
Horst Rmer/Emskirchen
Neue Energie Gesellschaft mbH/Grossenhain
BSVG/Grossdubrau
Hungary
Kek Bolygo /Bioenergia/KFT/Nagycenk
Italy
Sitta srl (San Giovanni al Natisone)
Biocalor (Romans dsonzo)
Kaminella srl (Martignacco)
Segatifriuli srl (Percoto)
PST la pedemontana di pizzato pierantonio (Lusiana)
La Tiesse srl (S. Michele di Piave di Cimadolmo)
Il truciolo srl (Michele di Piave di Cimadolmo)
Legno vivo (Cassola)
Nordpan spa (Valdaora)
Lanz srl (Rio di Pusteria)
Sartorilegno snc (Fondo)
Valpellert srl (Ponte in Valtellina)
M.a.b.e.f. Srl (Cardano al Campo)
Braga spa (Casalmaggiore)
Bs bollareto impianti industriali (Darfo Boario terme)
Boffi srl (Cinicello balsamo)
C & b Calor srl (Limbiate)
Cortinovis geremia e f. lli. s.n.c (Lenna)
Del curto srl (Verderio inferiore)
S.i.e.r. Snc (Chiusa de pesio)
Ligna tech Italia srl (Pinerolo)
Amga energia (San Mauro Pascoli)
O.m legno snc (Bordalone)
Agripellet srl (San Miniato Basso)
Legnopress (Mossumano terme)
Thermopellet srl (Pistoia)
Ecopellet srl (Ellera di Corciano)
Mancini f.lli snc (Matigge)
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cont. page 7
Pellets
Baltic wood pellets

success with Sprout-Matador process equipment
wedish based
TallOil AB has
activities in most
parts of the world
and in different fields
of technology.
We are active in
biofuel supply, technology development,
construction and
market, says Henrik Lundberg, main
owner and CEO of the
company.
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 supplied to customers in the Baltic region as well
as several European countries.
he first facilities
for production
of wood pellets
were established in the
beginning of the 90ies.
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 materials.
First pellet mill
In 2001 BBG acquired
the first three SproutMatador pellet mills.
Positive experience
soon led to construction of the new facility,
Gaujas Granulas, near
the harbor in Riga. Today this facility holds 6
Sprout-Matador pellet
mill lines.
New facility
BBG 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 facility in Ventspils, Latvia,
holds two Sprout-Matador pellet mill lines and
posses a yearly capacity
of 40 000 tonnes.
An anticipated expansion of the production
will reach a yearly ca-
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 Ventspils.
17 pellet mill lines
Today BBG posses more
than 17 pellet mill lines,
whereas 11 of them are
Sprout-Matador equipment.
Mr. Gatis Deksnis,
Henrik Lundberg
(CEO at BBG) states:

Sprout-Matador, who
has supplied complete
layout, installation and
consultation, has ful-
filled our expectations

for our projects through
out the years.
Tove Isaksen
Sprout Matador

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Sozio snc (Sambuceto)
Effesystem (Avezzano)
Ditta donadei (Pratola Peligna)
Rossikol srl (Sambuceto)
Eco calor snc (Pietracatella)
Comunita terapeutica Molise coc coop. (Toro)
F.lli Ragosa (Mercato san Severino)
Latvia
SBE Svens BrikettEnergi/Lauciena
BBG-ZemgalesGranulas/Iecava
Latgranula/Incukalns, Riga
CED /Drabesi, Cesu
Sia Marama/Talloil/Liepaja
BBG - Gaujas Granulas/Riga
BBG-Videzemes Granulas/Cesvaine
BBG-Kurzemes Granulas/Ventspils
Lithuania
UAB Baltic Wood/Mazeikiai
UAB GaireLita/Radviliskis
UAB Nemora group/Radviliskis
Vizerana /Tytuvenai/Siauliai
Graanul Invest UAB/Alytus
Talloil world
most international working
biofuel
company
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Labee Group Moerdijk
Norway
Cambi Bioenergi Vestmarka AS/Vestmarka
Statoil Norsk Trpellets/Brumunddal
Frya Bioenergi AS/Sor-fron
Vi-Tre AS/Roros
Statoil/Sykkylven p Sunnmre
Norpellets/Andebu
Inlandet Energipellets/Rndalen
Sor Frdling/Trndelag
Poland
Arno-Eko/Szczecin
Barlinek/Barlinek
P.H.Bestpol/Zielona
Enpal/Slubice
Pellet - Art/ Torzym
Task/Kiszkowo/Pobiedziska
Toreco/Brzezinki/Bydgoszcz
Zacisze/Czestochowa
Xynergia Sp. Z o.o/Ozarow Mazowiecki
Segi AT/Warszawa
Motowerk Zbigniew Misiarz/Mielec
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cont. page 9
Our daughter
company TPS has
the engineering skills
and is now involved in
a large scale coal conversion with installation 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 business that will become
more solid. Some
market actors will
not be able to deal
with the more professional customers that
now have stepped
into the market, ends
Henrik Lundberg.
Lennart Ljungblom
Page 7
Pellets
Kent Johansson
SBE
expands in EU
ith 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 organization Lantmnnen
and includes now also
world leading skills in
energy forestry - salix
plantations - through
their company Agrobrnsle.
We are in a fast
expanding phase,
says Kent Johansson, CEO who was recruited last year from
the forestry industry
owned SCA Bionorr.
Our fastest growing market, outside
Sweden, is England
and Scotland where
our company Renewable Fuels Ltd are in a
leading position.
Maybe one of the
most interesting aspect now is the increasing 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 sawdust pellets when a
cheaper pellets can
be available. This will
increase the amount
of white pellets for
the residential market,
ends Kent Johansson./LLj
Page 8
Pellets
Production of pellets in Slovakia
Gran Westerlund
ellet production
plant located in
Northwest Slovakia in Kysucky Lieskovec
has been built and started operation in October
2004. The plant is owned
by Biomasa Association
of legal entities.
Technology
Investment costs are
calculated for about 3,5
Think ahead not

just for the day
says Fulghum
Fibre Fuels
million Euro. Technology line for the plant
was provided by Drevoindustria Mechanik in
Slovakia and pellet mill
from CPM was used.
Production
The plant uses 20 000
tonnes sawdust annually. Yearly production
of pellets reaches 12 000
tonnes.
Sawdust collection logistics is targeted above all

to producers with high
quality of sawdust and
continuous and reliable
supply. Sawdust is collected by own transport
system (two container
trucks) from the nearby
region.
Pellets for sales in domestic market and export 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.
Project
Construction of pellet
plant together with reconstruction of 44 boiler
rooms combusting fossil fuels into pellet-firing
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 establishment of the market with wood pellets in
Slovakia
more info
www.biomasa.sk
New pellet mills in North America
ram Renewable
Fuels
has announced the opening of its offices in Savannah, Georgia, USA.
Fram will build pellet mills on the eastern
coast of North America, for the purpose of
serving the market in
the EU.
Heading the company as its president is
John Colquitt, a veteran

in the biofuels business.
John, a graduate forester, will lead the construction of the multiple
pellet mills and the organization of the marketing and shipping activities 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 forestry, marketing, and
shipping experience to
the company.
For more information
contact jcolqu@aol.com
John Colquitt and Harold Arnold during

Bioenergy 2005 conference in Trondheim

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Buk Real Esteta Sp z o.o/Dobra

SYLVA Sp. z o.o/Wiele - Koscierzyna
Pelety Kozienenice/Kozienice
Pelpol/Rososzyca gm. Warta
Miroslaw Kaminski PPHU/Olecko - Elk
Z.P.H.U Marand/Grady Woniecko - Zambrowo
Biopal/Szczecin
Furel/Bialy Bor - Koszalin
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Ecotech LTD/Podporozhie
RosPolitekhGruppa/Kolpino
Sallotti LTD/LomonosovSt petersburg
Biofuel LTD/Gatchina
Gatchina
Biotek LTD/Nevkaya Dubrovka
Novgorod/Grate
Ecoresources Company/Lodeynoe Pole
Tikhvin/Leninrgad Region
Velikie Luky/Pskov Region
Visny Volochok/Tver Reg
Murom/Vladimir Region
25
50
20
10
25
10
25
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30
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Cherepovets
Vologda
Impeks Ltd/Likhoslavl
Moscow
Valdai ltd/Valdai - Novogorod reg.
Sevglavsnab ltd/Arkhangelsk
Zavod Biotpoliva ltd/Murashi - Kirov reg.
Biotpoliva plc/Lodeinoye
Slobodskoi Agroles/Slobodskoi
Transkhimtekhnologiya Ltd/Volkhov
Promlesinterservis Company/Peno
Intrust Ltd/Kirovsk
PSB-GEM-HOLTS/St Petersburg
Slovakia
Drevomax/Rajecke Teplice
Holz-Produkt/Ruska Nova Ves
FERT/Branska Stiavnica
AVS Plus/Bratislava
Pelletia Heso/Bratislava
Pellets zipser/spiska Nova Ves
Biomasa/Kysucky Lieskovec
20 000
100 000
30 000
10 000
25 000
20 000
20 000
100 000
25 000
50 000
35 000
50 000
35 000
12 000
oday market situation for pellets

is so very hot - but
also immature, says
Gran Westerlund responsible for Fulghum
Fibre Fuels with a facility 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 understood the problems
with pellets.
It is not possible to
base a large scale operation on short terms
contracts
The solution is
long term contracts,
with this the capital
will flow into the business 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, different 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
Gran Westerlund.
Lennart Ljungblom
cont. page 10
Page 9
Pellets
A fast grower
BBG - Baltic
Bioenergy
Group
ith five production units and a
yearly production of
250 000 tonnes the
privately owned Latvian company Baltic Bioenergy Group,
BBG is the third largest pellets production organization in
Europe.
Mr Gatis Deksnis,
chairman of the board
explains
Our market is primary large energy production units in the
UK, the Netherlands,
Belgium, Sweden and
Denmark. Cogeneration has become a
major thing.
For this market
nice homogeny white
pellets is not important, instead they ask
for high energy content
bioenergy pellets.
Today sawdust still
is the major source,
but bark is an increasing part together with
stem wood. We are
a l s o i n t e re s t e d i n
straw and peat.
The other most important 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. Earlier we where also into
shipping but this part
we have left, says mr
Gatis Deksnis.
The group has now
around 200 employees.
Lennart Ljungblom
Page 10
Improved logistics
with pellets in bags
The complete line installed in

Flex Heat in Estonia is making
approximately 750 bags per hour.
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 first 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.

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Slovenia
Istrabenz/Nazarje
Profiles/Hrusevje
Enerles/Pivka
Spain
Ecoforest/Villacanas
Caryse/Villaseca de la Sagra
Resifor/Santiago de Compostela
Sweden
Pajala Bioenergi/Lule
Bioenergi/Lule
MBAB Energi/Robertsfors
Skelleftea Kraft AB
SCA BioNorr AB/Hrnsand
Mellanskogs Brnsle/Ljusne
Mellanskogs Brnsle/Orsa
SBI Pellet/Fremlingshem
Mellanskogs Brnsle/Sffle
Lax Pellets/Lax
BooForsj AB/Katrineholm
Borensberg
Sbi Pellet/Forsns
Sbi Pellet/Vaggeryd
40 000
10 000
40 000
40 000
15 000
15 000
8
90
25
130
160
23
40
55
40
85
40
20
60
75
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000
000
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SBE Svensk BrikettEnergi/Malmbck

SBE Svensk BrikettEnergi /Norberg
SBE Svensk BrikettEnergi/Ulrichshamn
SBE Svens BrikettEnergi/Slvesborg
Sdra Skogsenergi/Mnsters
Vida Energi/Hestra
Helsinge Pellets AB/Edsbyn
Bure Pellets/Skellefte, Bure
Mockfjrd Biobrnsle AB/Dalarna
Jmtlamell/Lit
Glommerstrsk Miljenergi AB/Glommerstrsk
Sgverksassitance/Svanskog
V-Pellets/Grums
Knredssgen AB/Knred
Switzerland
Brli Trocknungsanlage/Gettnau
Interspan Tschopp/Buttisholz
AEK Pellet Schweiz/Solothurn
Keller Konrad/Unterstammheim
UK
Welsh Biofuels/Bridgend/Wels
Balcas/Enniskillen/North Ireland
ReNe/Nottingham
80 000
80 000
85 000
55 000
40 000
40 000
50 000
25 000
6 000
13 000
8 000
7000
10 000
6 000
5
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50 000
50 000
10 000
Pellets
Pfeifer Holzindustrie, Kundl

largest pellets
plant in Austria
e are totally sold
o u t . A l l p ro duced 115 000 are
sold, says Mr. Ingo
Meitinger, responsible
for sales for Austrian
company Pfeifer Holzindustrie GmbH & Co
KG one of the larger
wood industrial companies.
It is an enormous
interest in our pellets,
Mr. Meitinger says and
we are now discussion the possibilities
for expanding.
We are so far focused on white pellets intended for the
residential market and
delivers only to dealers.
Holzindustrie Pfeifer
has activities in seven
locations and the pellets production is concentrated in Kundl in
western Austria.
W
The line has been running since summer 2005 and the build up storage of bagged
pellets is now being sold with big success.
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.
ocated near the

town Rakvere,
approximately
1.5 hour drive from Tallinn 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 investment
Pellets 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, because a boat load easily can be divided and
shipped directly to the
end consumers, giving a
higher price.
Since pellets are produced all year round,
but mainly sold in winter, Flex Heat was with
increasing production
facing a storage problem
for bulk pellets.
All the bulk transport
when arrived in Denmark were put on intermediate 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 independent packing line.
Where to install
the line?
One solution was to
install it inside the factory and then transport
the finished pallets with
bags directly by boat to
the customers.
Another was to install
the packaging line in a
storage facility in a Danish harbour and then ship
the pellets there in bulk.
The advantage of first
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 fit 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 first.
The hopper is constructed 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.
Ready to transport by ro-ro vessel pallets

with pellets packed in the bags
Avoid the dust
A major advantage of
pellets in bags as opposed to bulk is that
the pellets are protected
inside the bag and transport is possible without
creation of dust. Bags on
pallets make it possible
to lift and transport the
pallets without touching
the pellets.
High quality product should be with as
little dust as possible.
Therefore the sizer is
positioned as close as
possible to the actual
bagging.
Because of the building layout a conveyor
belt was chosen to transport 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 precise 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 sizes can be made only by
entering another value.
The weigher is calibrated and approved by the
Estonian Authorities.
Positioned under the

weigher is a Form, Fill
and Seal packaging machine. These machines
are mainly known in
smaller sizes where they
are widely used for packaging of food, coffee etc.
The packaging material is supplied from a
reel of flat film. The machine folds the film and
seals it around the product thereby making the
form, fill and seal process in one operation.
Automatic palletiser
It is installed after the
packaging machine.
This machine positions
the bags on the pallet
in a predefined 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 film,
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
Harbours in UK,
more information to the map
mmingham Docks:
h e re R e n e w a b l e
Fuels Ltd imported
60,000 tonnes pellets
to the UK via in 2005.
Forecast for 2006 is
100,000 tonnes.
Goole Port has biomass storage with
annual capacity for
130,000 tonnes . Forecast 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 customers.
Pernilla Tweddle
Renewable Fuels Ltd
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Pellets
Since 1883
Wood Pelleting
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Energie
Even more hot
t 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
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He also says that
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Pellets
Wood pellet industry update

from North America
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 utilizing furnaces or boilers to heat their entire
home. Consequently, bulk home delivery has
not yet been introduced.
arly pellet stoves,

and as is still the
case with many
pellet appliances, they
are very fuel sensitive.
Therefore, the quality of wood pellets in
North America must be
very high. The moisture
can not exceed 6%, ash
levels should not exceed
0.30%, fines 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 consideration.
There is some controversy over how many
pellet stoves exist in
North America, but if
the average consumption is 2 tonnes per consumer nationwide, there
should be some 450 000500 000 stoves.
The wood pellet industry in both Canada and
the United States rely on
economics only, there are
no environmental CO2
reduction incentives offered 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 pellet heating system (boiler or forced air) for the
entire home, complete
fuel storage and delivery is not appealing because of the higher cost
in related to it, when
comparing other home
heating options.
However, a few models of this type of technology 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 Canada and the US.
Canadian exports
overseas
That sector shows the
most growth in pellet
production over the
past few years and is expected to ship 582 500
tonnes of pellets overseas during 2005. Total
of wood pellet production in North America
accounts for 1 653 500
tonnes. From that number Canada now manufactures about 915 000
tonnes (55%).
The majority of additional pellet production in the future, is expected 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-
Pellet plants and sea ports in North America

mills or board plant
competing for the fibre.
Exports to the US
bagged market has always 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 fibre
availability do not make
it economically viable
for American pellet producers to export.
Pellet plants
Throughout 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 capacitys, particularly in
Western Canada (BC),
where they range from
50 000 - 150 000 tonnes
of annual production.
Pellet plants are located mostly on either
coast and only few in
the mid lands of both
Canada and the US.
West Coast plants
Canadian versus USA wood pellet production

produce softwood pellets from Spruce, Pine,
Fir, some Fir and Hemlock. East Coast US pellet plants manufacture
a hardwood pellet from
Oak, Maple, Cherry and
other hardwood species.
All wood pellets produced in North America
with the exception of
two plants, manufacture
pellets from sawdust
and shavings residue
only. The two produc-
ers whom mix bark

into their wood pellets,
export them to power
plants in Europe.
Sea ports
Sea ports where pellets
are loaded for export to
Europe are located at
Halifax and Three Rivers on the East Coast of
Canada, Vancouver and
Prince Rupert on the
West Coast of Canada.
Dorota Natucka
Compac Tec
will soon reach
140 000 tonnes
he company Compac Tec in Straubing in south of Germany 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 Alexander 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 demand 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 alternatives for home
heating. Today 40 000
units for pellets heating has been installed
and next year another
10 000 will start using
pellets.
The pellets sector
is a real expanding
part of today business in Germany, ends
Mr. Alexander Shulze,
Compac Tec.
Markku Bjrkman
cont. from p. 12
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.
We are really positive and we hope that

the development in
France and Switzerland will further speed
up business, ends Mr.
Franz Blieninger from
Fire Stixx Holz Energie.
Markku Bjrkman
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Home heating
Hot news
2005
BioWin from
Windhager
Thrilling pellets interest

in Stuttgart event
his new pellet boiler is replacing the

Windhager PMX. The
BioWin is available in
three comfort levels
and in four sizes ranging from 10 to 26 kW.
Biotec
Top Light
ellet heating systems are enjoying

a textbook boom.
More than 14 000 pellet
heating systems will be
newly installed in Germany 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 exhibitors. Manufacturers,
suppliers, wholesalers
and service providers
presented their latest
products and services.
Helmut Gastl, Managing Director of kofen
Germany, has taken part
since the very first Pellets trade fair:
Pellets 2005 specialisa-
tion makes it the most

important German industry meeting-point for
the pellet sector.
Helmut Schellinger,
Managing Director of the
pellet producer Schellinger
KG also focussed this positive development:
Im 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 visitors
Pellets 2005 welcomed a
noticeable number of international trade visitors
from Europe and from
the rest of the world
for the first time. Egon
Zechmann, Manager
of Calimax, explained:
Were thrilled; were
experiencing a real flood
of visitors. It is interest-
INTRESTING
MEDIA
op 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
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. Environmental advantages
so far rank as the second
most important factor in
choosing a pellet heating
system.
Financial and commercial considerations are
uppermost, explained
Roland Wurm, Head
of Sales in Germany for
Windhager Zentralheizung GmbH.
The 5th Wood Energy
Industry Forum took
place on 12th-13th October. Over 250 experts
and decision-makers
found out about the latest trends, innovations,
and research findings in
the pellet industry.
Anders Haaker
OF THE NEW
KIT
2006
Calimax experienced a real flood of visitors at the

stand in Stuttgart.
Markus
Elssser and
Barbara Pilz
from Solar
Promotion
GmbH
organizers of
the event.
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11 900 visitors in Augsburg
lmost 12 000
visitors from
around the
world, eleven per cent
more than last year, attended this year IHE
WoodEnergy 2005,
RENEXPO 2005
and reCONSTRUCT
2005 at Fairground
Augsburg from September 22 nd-25 th.
Themes at this years
event ranged from biogas to wood energy,
from biofuels to fuel
cells, geothermal and
solar energy to hydro
power, passive house to
energy efficient renovation and innovative insulation.
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 example, bakeries, meat

shops and craftsman, all
find rising heating costs
unbearable. Many are
here to search for alternatives and have found
them here at the trade
fair, remarked Heinrich
Schnmaier 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 numerous quality speakers.
The BBE emphasized
the progress that IHE
WoodEnergy has attained and its role in
pushing the congress to
such a high level.
In total, 20 seminars,
congresses, workshops
and forums accompanied this years 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 innovative new topic like air
condition with biomass
was also discussed.
Gabriele Rauschenberg from the KfW Banking 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 construction and energy efficient
housing, according to
Rauschenberg.
Hot news
2005
Ivo.tec from
Wodtke
his design award

winning pellet
stove/boiler was introduced to the market 2005. The water
cooled stove has an
output of 3-13 kW.
Ms Andrea Pehn, from Rika showed pellets stoves.

Visitors arrived from
e.g. Australia, China, Israel, Japan, Lebanon, Nepal, Thailand, the Czech
Republic, Hungary and
Uruguay.
The export workshop
forums from Australia, India and Thailand
showed that business in-
volvement in these countries is nearer and easier

than most people realize,
if it has not already arrived. Successful projects
and cooperation showed
the step towards worldwide exports and presence is fast approaching.
Anders Haaker
Fire SL from
Wodtke
Fire, water, air

These are the elements upon which
the Palazzetti Grouphas built its history
and its success.
he company was
founded in 1954
in Porcia (PN)
with the production of
concrete pieces for interior furnishing, along
with industrial manufacturing of marble for
floors and coverings
The early 1970s witnessed the first Italian
production of complete
prefabricated fireplaces,
with industrial processing systems, which was
soon joined by the production of barbecues
and, later, stoves.
In the 1980s, the
company also started the
production of whirlpool
baths and shower boxes,
which are marketed under 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 producers of fireplaces belong.
Collaboration
Palazzetti has always
dedicated energy and
resources to achieve
products of the highest performance, which
limit energy consumption without giving up
performance, with the
fullest respect for the environment. 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 research
New consumer behavior
which was typical of the
1990s, and the needs
of a better informed
and more aware public
did not catch the company off guard. Rather,
through a coherent application of the company 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, satisfying the desire for products that work properly,
look good and are environmentally friendly.
Provide solutions
As the new millennium
dawns, Palazzetti is even
more determined to provide concrete solutions
to the consumer public,
with high-technology
products that are easy
atching fire in
16:9 format is
now possible with this
wood stove where esthetics is in focus.
Janfire
Integral
The fireplace Dubai with the double-faced Monoblocco 66 is a room-centre version offering a great
view of the fire.
to use and nice to look
at. True heating systems
with the utmost concern
for the environment.
Concerning
environment
To confirm its commitment to protecting nature, for years Palazzetti
has collaborated with
and the supported the activities of the WWF and
the Italian Environmen-
tal Protection League,

as well as supporting
A.V.I.A.M.A., The Italian Association for the
Promotion of Tree Cultivation and Environmental Improvement, in
order to increase public
awareness of the need
to recover uncultivated
and abandoned land to
be used for lumber production.
Press release of Palazzetti
ew automatic pellet boiler, capacity

up to 25 kW.
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Emissions
Sweden
New support
for substitution
of oil and electrical heating
any hundred
thousands of
single family houses
in Sweden are heated
with electrical radiators.
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 five years.
Emissions trading
improves the competitiveness
of bioenergy
Negative reactions
Comments 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 prices are high enough for
pellets to compete.
Lennart Ljungblom
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On 16-17 of June, 2005 there was a significant 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
ince 2002, the time

of the Biocenter
establishment, the
ranks of the workshop
participants have grown,
the number of producers
of biofuel and its firing
equipment has increased
considerably. This means
that there is a positive
trend of introduction of
environmentally friendly
and economically expedient 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) Environmental and economy
issues for bioenergy.
Wood stocks
D.L.Sokolov, executive
director of the NP The
Confederation of the
Northwest Timber Industry Complex pointed that wood stocks in
the Northwest Federal
District are about 10 billion m3 accounting for
60% of the whole forest
vegetation of the European 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 average 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.
Potential
Some 16 315 million
m3 of wood wastes are
formed in the Northwest
region of Russia.
The potential of available today wood wastes
in this region is 48 TWh
per annum (4.1 million
tonnes of equivalent
fuel). The annual consumption in the region
is 94 TWh of electricity
(data of the Russian Statistics 2004).
Using of available today woody biomass in
the regional boiler plants
would make it possible
to cover the essential part
of the region demand in
heat and electricity.
Problems
The general problem for
the Northwest forests
is that there is no market for aspen and alder
wood with the stable
demand for birch and
coniferous wood.
The low-grade unclaimed wood is left on

logging sites, because of
its transportation from
the sites is not compensated.
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 connection with that, the issue
of utilization of wood
residues and low-grade
wood is becoming especially urgent in the forest
complex.
Five tonnes of wood
wastes directly combusted in furnaces allow
saving of 1 ton of black
oil or 1000 m3 of natural gas.
State program
Today, there are different
methods of energy generation from biomass.
They include both using
of solid fuel in the form
of chips, briquettes, pellets and production of
gas and liquid fuel from
wood.
The Confederation of
the Northwest Timber
Industry Complex with
the support of the Authorized Representative
of the Russian President
in the Northwest Fed-
eral District is elaborating a state program of

bioenergy development
in Northwest Russia.
The program is aimed
at solving of social, environmental and economic problems of the
District.
Other examples
In presentations of foreign participants it was
spoken about the estimation of energy potential
of wood fuel in Europe.
It was noticed the permanently growing de-
mand for biofuel not only

produced from wood
wastes, but also from agricultural wastes.
The examples of using
wood fuel and biofuel
for heat supply to housing sector in European
countries were given; it
was outlined ways of cooperation with Russia in
bioenergy area.
N.P. Dmitrieva
Veliky Novgorod
More details on
the website: www.
rusbiocenter.spb.ru
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.
nergy and environment ministers

from 20 countries met
in London in November to take forward
the outcomes from the
Gleneagles summit.
At the G8 Dialogue
on Climate Change,
Clean Energy and
Sustainable Development, the UK Government announced the
provision of significant
further funding to support the activities of
the Renewable Energy
and Energy Efficiency
Partnership (REEEP).
Following on from
the 2.5million the
UK provided this year
by the Environment
Ministry, it was announced 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 provision of 1million in
funding for 2006/7
giving the REEEP a
total of 6m from the
UK over the coming
two years.
The additional funding will provide REEEP
with the capabilities
to play an important
role in helping to take
forward the Gleneagles Plan of Action,
increase its global
reach by further expanding its network of
regional secretariats,
and support a growing number of individual projects around
the world to develop
robust policies, favourable, transparent
and stable regulatory
frameworks
Further information
peter.richards@reeep.org
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Forestry
Increased use of felling

residues in north of Sweden
Cont. from p 1
Gas dispute
he 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.
We need to start discussions immediately,
so that the action plan
can be speedily adopted and actively
implemented, says
Josef Prll, Federal
Minister for Agriculture
and Environment in
Austria, the country
that now holds the
presidency in the European Union.
Prll 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 million tonnes of energy
equivalent in the EU.
EU studies have
shown that this could
be increased to 189
million tonnes by
2010.
Knock-on effect:
between 250 000 and
300 000 jobs in rural areas and savings
in CO2 emissions of
around 200 million
tonnes per annum,
Prll concluded.
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he use of residues
as branches and
tree tops from
fellings is increasing rapidly in northern parts of
Sweden. In the county of
Jmtland and Vsternorrland 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 hectares and 2004 up to 3 614
hectares. This is representing 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
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Market
New storage and distribution

center in UK
TallOil AB, a Swedish
biofuels producer,
has opened a UK
storage and distribution 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.
his facility is expected to handle

up to 100 000
tonnes of pellets in the
first year of operation.
Excellent rail and
road links from Teesport were key factors in
the decision to base their
UK operations there.
New plans
Plans are now being developed to increase this
storage facility to 60 000
tonnes in order to accept
large shipments from
TallOils own supplies

in Europe and North
America.
This will make it one
of the largest biomass
distribution facilities in
Europe.
Milestone
Henrik Lundberg, CEO
TallOil says, This really is a milestone for our
activities in the UK market. 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, Manager of TallOil in UK says,
Having such a facility
in the N.E. will assist
the wide spread establishment of biomass as a
secure, environmentally
benign and economical
replacement for traditional fossil fuels such as
gas and coal in both the

industrial and domestic
sectors. Thereby helping
the region to meet its renewable energy targets.
We have established our
office in Castleford near
Leeds at the centre of
gravity for the coal fired
power station cluster
here in Yorkshire. TallOil and TPS have an excellent position to serve
the requirements of the
market both with fuel,
boiler plants and with
complete bioenergy so-
lutions from here

Over two decades
The TallOil Group has
been involved with biomass 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 combustion of biomass. TallOil has its modern UK
office in Yorkshire,
Barry Paterson TallOil
Ampleforth College
New bioenergy boiler and heat supply network
ReNU has recently awarded Windborne International a Feasibility Study for the provision of a new bioenergy boiler
and heat supply network for the UKs 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.
he existing heating system is by

individual oil
boilers in each of the 20
buildings that will be
linked in the new network.
There is a swimming
pool on site that operates 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 design
Windborne has engaged
the services of Willy
Mrtensson Energi Konsult in Kalmar to carry
out the network design,
Jrnforsen Energi to design the boiler and Silvagen of the UK to organise a biofuel supply.
Biofuel supply
Here the aim is to reach
self-sufficiency within 5
years by managing the
Colleges forestry reserves
more efficiently and replacing felled softwoods
and low grade hardwoods with fast growing

species, such as eucalyptus and birch.
The chip will be in
any case produced and
stored on site.
Operation
The Study will be completed and presented by
the middle of February,
2006 and the intention

is that ReNU will offer
an ESCO solution, ie it
will take full responsibility for installing and
managing the heating
system as well as the
biofuel supply for a period of a minimum of 20
years.
David Jackson
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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 Vxj and listened to presentations given by the
South-Eastern Energy Office,Vxj City
Council, Windborne
International, and Renewable Fuels (part of
BrikettEnergi).
David Jackson
Page 19
Emissions
GEF project in
Slovenia will be
finalised in 2006
he project GEF in
Slovenia, initiated
in 2002 is finalising
next year.
The short-term objectives of project GEF
are to encourage and
implement three to five
wood biomass district
heating systems and
to prepare investment
documentation for at
least 20 similar heating
systems.
The GEF project outcomes achieved so far
are good.
Different trainings
events took place and
an excellent information network was set
up.
36 studies for biomass district heating
are ready and two biomass 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 October 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
Page 20
Bundling of small scale

bioenergy projects
generates income from
Carbon credits
sales
Under the Kyoto Protocol a country can realise part
of its emission reduction target abroad. Carbon credit
trader BioHeat International BV reports about its experience with the development and implementation of
fuel-switch project portfolios.
y substituting fossil fuel with biomass, the projects

qualify for carbon credits 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 projects qualify for JI co-financing but individually they are too small
to attract the interest of
CO2-credit buyers who
prefer contracting projects 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 projects while keeping unit

transaction costs down
BioHeat International,
a subsidiary of BTG
Biomass Technology
Group, applies a flexible
portfolio concept.
Concept
The 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 replaced by new projects,
thus reducing the risk of
a total failure;
Gradual implementation allowing the set
of projects to be implemented over a period of
several years;
Involvement of a financing intermediary be-
On 5th November 2005, BioHeat Director Ren Venendaal handed

over a symbolic cheque of EUR 1 499 999 to the CEO of Brazils
no. 1 rice processing company Camil. The cheque represents the
minimum value of the carbon credits to be generated from just one
of Camils fuel-switch projects.
tween the credit buyer and

the individual projects.
JI portfolio in the
Czech Republic
The portfolio concept
was first applied in the
Czech Republic where
BioHeat and BTG put
together a portfolio of
projects concerning the
replacement, renewal,
extension or new construction of municipal
or industrial heating
systems, where biomass
(wood and straw) boilers replace coal or gasfuelled boilers.
The portfolio was
submitted to the first
Emission Reduction
Unit Procurement Tender of the Dutch Government.
This bid was successful and after negotiations
emission reductions up
to 522 320 tonnes of
CO2-equivalents from
the portfolio were sold
to the Dutch government.

The portfolio contains
14 projects, varying in
size from 600 kWth to
9 MWth.
The investment volume is 27 million Euro.
The income from selling
carbon credits accounts
for 10-20% of the investment cost of individual projects and for
a substantial part is paid
to the project owners in
advance.
Clean Development
Mechanism portfolio
in Brazil
In Brazil, BioHeat and
its local partner PTZ
BioEnergy Ltda. target
fuel switch projects in
the agro-industry.
The portfolio they develop currently includes
about 20 industrial cogeneration 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 industry for projects totalling >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
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Pellets-Expo
rom 27th to 29th
June 2006, the 4th
edition of Pellets-Expo
will be held in Bydgoszcz, Poland.
Last time, more than
50 companies were
presenting themselves
during three days of
the event. There were
exhibitors from Poland, Germany, Italy,
Sweden, Switzerland,
Austria, Ukraine and
the Netherlands.
The stands were presenting a large number
of devices and complete process lines for
production of pellets,
sawdust briquettes
and other materials,
state-of-the-art hot
water boilers, fireplaces, burners, automatics and accessories for
biomass boiler rooms
etc.
A conference titled
Pellets is that profitable, two years of experience was held for
the third time during
the fair. It outlined the
question of the pellets and energy coming from renewable
sources of energy. The
lecturers were talking
about the biomass
market development
in Poland, the quality
issues of wood pellets,
possibilities of producing the pellets from selected energetic plants,
as well as important
possibilities of financial
support of investments
using renewable sources of energy.
www.ctpik.com.pl
Business
opportunity
ebuild Louisiana,
Alabama and
Mississippi. Check
w e b s i t e w w w. l r l .
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Nature power
hree months after 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 every building in Grand
Chenier was destroyed
in the hurricane.
Piles of trees
Thick 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 companies in Louisiana has
expressed interest of using damaged wood for
Jerry G. Whatley from Lousiana Agrocenter pointing at damaged areas.
The American hurricane

energy purpose, however not enough of the
wood debris is used for
energy, according to the
bioenergy business.
USA experienced two of its worst natural catastrophes so far in the
Enormous resource
Ten per cent of the annual electricity need in
USA could be supplied
by hurricane damaged
forests. The waste of
a natural growing resources 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 director of Greeen Energy
Resources at a press
conference in Baton
Rouge.
This could have supplied 200 biomass fueled
power plants of 250 MW
each and reduced import
of energy and saved tenth
of billions of dollars, according to him.
stroyed. A new discussion of renewable energy sources has risen as
Export to Europe
This year Green Energy
resources has started to
export 2 millions tonnes
Rebuilding
According to him the
economical cost for the
forest industry and agri-
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 dea result of the increased oil prices after the hurricanes.
of wood chips and pellets from the southern
states of USA to Europe.
Murray sees a possibility to sell another million
tonnes of damaged forest wood to the power
plants in the northeast
of USA.
Forest owners
Almost half of Louisiana is covered with forest. The forest industry
is supported by 60 municipalities. There are
148 000 forest owners,
of which 62 per cent are
private owners.
Six per cent
The environmental
writer Stanley E. Manahan writes in his latest
book, Environmental
Chemistry, that if USA
would use 6 per cent of
its land area for growing crops for energy,

that would correspond
to the same amount of
energy produced from
fossil resources.
Important role
Biomass is the second
largest renewable energy source after hydro
power and our federal
administration is beginning to understand the
important role of the
pulp- and paper industry in the development
of an increased use of
biomass, says Jerry G.
Whatley, agricultural
economist at Louisiana
Agrocenter.
cultural sector in Louisiana due to the hurricane can be estimated

to more than one billion
dollars.
Whatley is though
optimistic in a typical
American way.
Its just a matter of
building it up again, Im
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 change
According 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
refined products and alltime-high prices on oil, explains Jerry Whatley. This
has already started a new
thinking in many states.
Follow Kyoto
Jerry 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, concerning emissions from
the industry.
Reduce emissions
Connecticut, 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, Washington and Oregon has
started the process of
reaching similar agreements.
Markku Bjrkman
Report
Ash recycling
Biomass updraft gasification power

plant in Japan
International seminar
Some 75 bioenergy professionals from 16
countries visited the seminar held by the LIFEenvironment demonstration project RecAsh
in Prague 8-9 November. The focus was to
disseminate findings and to discuss how ash
recycling is best organised with respect to
ecological, technical, economic, logistic and
administrative aspects.
he background
shows that extraction of harvest 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 intensified harvest is that
the export of nutrients
and acid buffering substances from the forests
is increased.
Ash recycling
Wood ash can be used to
compensate forest soils
for such losses. In the
long term, ash recycling
may prove to be an essential path to sustainability.
Today, most wood
fuel ash is deposited in
landfills. If this ash instead would be recycled,
wood energy could be
produced sustainably
and without any significant waste production.
Demonstration project
In order to create better
conditions for a regular
recycling of wood ash,
the Regional Forestry
Board of Vrmland rebro and the Swedish
National Board of Forestry took the initiative
to creating a LIFE-Environment demonstration
project.
The project is developing, analysing and
demonstrating regular
ash-recycling systems.
It distributes knowledge gathered about

motives for ash recycling as well as technical and administrative
solutions through handbooks, workshops, field
demonstrations, and
seminars, web page and
information videos.
Seminar
Mr Ivo Kupka from the
Faculty of Forest and
Environment at Czech
Agricultural University lead the seminar,
which was divided
into three themes.
The first theme
was Strategies,
politics, legislation and implementation
tools with
presentations by Dan
Asplund, President of the European Biomass
Association and
Erik Sandstrm,
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 Association held a speech about
the present situation of
use of biomass and legislation in the Czech
Republic.
Trip
The second theme was
FE Engineering in
Japan has signed
its first contract for an
advanced biomass
gasification plant
based on the Babcock & Wilcox Vlund
updraft gasifier technology.
The new plant is
owned by Yamagata
Green Power Co.
Ltd. and will be located in Murayama
City in Yamagata Prefecture. Operation is
expected to begin in
February 2007.
The plant will produce 2000 kW of
power on the basis
of 60 tons of wood
-chips per day. The
new biomass plant will
mainly be fired with
wood-chips from cuttings of cherry trees.
Our plant is the first
high efficiency state
of the art combined
heat and power plant
based on an updraft
gasifier in Japan. It is
likely that many such
high efficiency plants
are required in Japan
for power generation
based on biomass.
Therefore, this plant
becomes a very important 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
Scientific knowledge
and research. Jakub
Hruska, Czech Geological Survey introduced effects of acidic deposition
on terrestrial ecosystems
in the Czech Republic.
Moreover, Dr Hruska
organised a separate
field trip to Jizerske hory
Mountains the day after
the seminar at which
typical effects such as
magnesium deficiency
were demonstrated.
Research
Olle Westling Swedish
Environmental Research
Institute and Erik Karltun Department of Forest Soils SLU informed
about relevant research
and research reviews
carried out in Sweden,

while Morten Ingerslev
and Inge Stupak Mller
from Danish Centre
for Forest, Landscape
and Planning informed
about the situation in
Denmark.
Noora Nsi and Sirpa
Piirainen, Finnish Research Institute METLA, presented Finnish
research about ash on
peatland and Sandor
Csetse from University
of Pecs talked about
wood and grass ash
recycling in southern
Hungary.
Practice
The third theme
w a s Wo o d
Ash recycling
in practice.
In this
theme, the
RecAsh-project staff and
partners introduced results
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 Extraction of Forest Fuels
to Ash recycling.
Markkuu Paananen and Tytti Laitinen
Jyvskyl Science Park
described the situation
in Finland.
Jakob Hirsmark
SVEBIO and Erik Ling
Sveaskog introduced the
corresponding situation
in Sweden.
Hillevi Eriksson from
the National Board of
Forestry introduced the
Swedish Recommendations for the extraction
of forest fuels and compensation fertilising.
Sirkku Sarenbo, University of Kalmar introduced a compaction
method for ash treatment in order to harden
the ash.
Anders Nordin from
Ume University presented a heat treatment
method for reducing
heavy metal contents in
contaminated ashes.
Conclusion
All themes were finalised
with conclusions, discussion 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
firm authority.
The draft handbook
and the presentations
from the seminar along
with much other interesting information can
be downloaded from
the RecAsh homepage,
www.recash.info
Stig Emilsson
Lars Andersson
SVVST
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Events
Clean Energy
Power
orldwide interest in renewable
energy and energy
savings is steadily
growing.
The international
trade fair Clean energy
power 2006 will present 15 events around
the themes of renewable energy and energy
efficient construction
and renovation at the
ICC Berlin on January
18th and 19th.
Innovative topics to
be discussed will include wave energy and
solar drying of sewage
sludge. Those interested in international
markets can attend
events dedicated to
export and climate
protection projects.
The Energy Passport
Programme will also
be discussed.
The accompanying 2-day exhibition
provides insight into
the latest products
and market developments.
Trade fair visitors
and end-consumers
will both find the event
interesting. Expected
at the 2-day event are
1500 visitors from over
30 countries.
800 delegates are
expected to participate at the various
congresses, workshops, symposiums
and forums. CEP is
aimed at representatives from agriculture,
trade and industry,
science and research,
communities, organisations, building industry, building contractors, architects
and engineers, investors as well as all
those interested in
renewable energy or
energy efficiency.
Miriam Hegner
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Politics
Hermann Scheer presented at the

end of the Parliametary Forum
also Bonn 2005 Declaration.
Klaus Toepfer speach before

he receive Einstein Aword.
Congress in
Bulgaria
nd International
Congress on Energy Efficiency and
Renewable Energy
Sources; Financing
Mechanisms for Implementation will take
place in Sofia, Bulgaria from 8th till 10th
March 2006.
The Congress will
be held under the auspices of the Bulgarian
Ministry of Economy
and Energy and Ministry of Regional Development and Public
Works, and it will also
be supported by European and national
organizations working
in the field of EE and
RES.
The Draft Program
consists of two main
sections Current Status of the EE & Renewable Energy Market in
Europe and European
and Regional RE &
EE Investment Climate; Public Policy
as Driver in Finance.
Lecturers will provide
relevant information
on retrofitting of existing buildings, EE and
Transport alternative
fuels and vehicles,
RES applications in
industry, construction and household,
Energy Management
and security.
In the second section important topics
like analysis of the current financing mechanisms for Retrofitting
of existing buildings
are included, Innovative financing instruments and incentives
schemes to stimulate
the RES & RUE investments, attracting
finance for your projects, project development process.
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 Pontenagel
Hermann Scheer was also aworded with Einstein Aword.
Mohammed Ismail Khann,

Minister of Energy and
Water presenled the energy
solution in Afganistan .
Bonn november 2005
THE BIOENERGY International

best wishes to the Germany Environment Minister for the new Year.
World Renewable Energy

Assembly.
Presented the declaration of
the Human Right to Renewable Energy
ore than 450

representatives from
politics and parliaments,
from science and industry as well as NGOs and
social movements met
in Bonn from November 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 future renewable energy
era, which should not
be overlooked. The
point of culmination of
the event was the Solar-
World Einstein Award,

given for the first time
in 2005 for outstanding dedication to solar
energy and sustainable
use of natural resources.
Hermann Scheer and
Klaus Toepfer were honoured for their lifetime
worldwide creation of a
sustainable energy supply system.
The World Renewable Energy Assembly
(WREA) was organised
by EUROSOLAR, supported by the NRW
State Initiative on Future Energies, by the
NRW Energy Agency,
UNESCO, EUFORES,
ISES (International Solar 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 application of renewable
energies could only be
reached through a separate new international
institution.
International governmental institutions
reflect this discrimination of renewable en-
ergy. The International

Atomic Energy Agency
(IAEA) promotes the
proliferation of nuclear
technology, the International Energy Agency
(IEA) is operating as a
satellite of the fossil energy 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 subsidies annually, about 50
times more than renewable energy.
Therefore the World
Renewable Energy Assembly (WREA) 2005
in Bonn/Germany has
ended with the adoption
of the final communiqu
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
More info on www.

viaexpo.com
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Events
World Sustainable Energy

Days 2006
he World Sustainable Energy Days
2006 is organised
from 1-3 March 2006
in Wels/Austria by the
O.Oe. Energiesparverband, the energy agency of Upper Austria.
The organizers offer
a unique combination
of events on sustainable energy production and use, including energy efficiency
and renewable energy
sources for buildings,
industry and transport.
The events bridge
the gap between R&D
and markets, between
industry and institutions.
In addition to five
conferences, which
present the latest technology trends, outstanding examples and
European strategies
in different fields, the
Energiesparmesse,
an important energy
exhibition, and discussion panels offer optimal opportunities to
establish new partnerships for innovation,
environment protection and business.
The programme
comprises the following events:
European Energy
Efficiency Conference
Conference Green
Heating & Cooling
European Pellets
Forum
Conference Green
electricity for Europes
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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2006
Center of Renewable Energy
International
Picnic of
Renewable Energy
12 - 13th May
Nowe Miasto nad Pilica
in the programme also
seminars
http://www.gemi.info/
Calendar
2006
FEBRUARY
16 - 17 Biofuels Markets
18 - 19 Clean Energy Power
9 - 12 Bioenergy World 2006
Exhibition & Conference
Brussels
Berlin
Verona
Belgium
Germany
Italy
www.biofuelsmarkets.com
www.energy-server.com
www.bioenergy-world.com
Wels
Sofia
Bblingen
Austria
Bulgaria
Germany
www.esv.or.at
www.viaexpo.com
www.erneuerbareenergien.com
Kielce
Rio de Janeiro
Rio de Janeiro
St Petersburg
Poland
Brazil
Brazil
Russia
www.enex.pl
www.greenpowerconferences.com
Shanghai
China
www.goodwill-exh.com.hk
Jnkping
Sweden
www.worldbioenergy.se
Co-workers of the
Bioenergy
International
MARCH
1 - 3 World Sustainable Energy days
8 - 10 Int. Congress on Energy Efficiency Sources
10 - 12 Erneuerbare Energien 2006
International Fair and Congress for Renewable Energy
22 - 23 Enex, fair of renewable sources of energy
27 - 28 Biofuels Markets Latin America
29 - 30 Carbon Markets Latin America
29 - 30 Green Power CIS
Anders Haaker
Co-editor
anders.haaker@
novator.se
APRIL
28 - 30 The 7th China International Enviromental
Protection and Conference
MAY
30 - 1
World Bioenergy 2006 Conference & Exhibition on Biomass for Energy

12 - 13 International Picninc of Renewable Energy
Nowe Miasto Poland
www.gemi.info/
JUNE
8 - 10
7 - 10
Forexpo
Wood Energy Solutions
Wenet Conference, Study tours, Silva exhibition
16 - 18 Euroforest, large exhibition in a real forest
27 - 29 Pellets Expo, International fair of devices
and technologies for pellet industri
Biofuels Markets Asia
Carbon Markets Asia
Renewable Energy Finance Asia
Bilbao
Spain
North Karelia Finland
canalcom@club-internet.fr
www.wenet.fi
Dijon Cedex France

Bydgoszcz
Poland
www.euroforest2006.com
www.ctpik.com.pl
Bangkok
Thailand
Hong Kong
Hong Kong
Mnchen
Germany
www.interforst.de
Lahti
Findland
www.cleanpower2006.fi
Newcastel
Budapest
Aquitaine
United Kingdom www.europoint-bv.com/biofuels2006

Hungary
France
www.forexpo.fr
Nrberg
Valladolid
Augsburg
Augsburg
Aachen
Germany
Spain
Germany
Germany
Germany
www.enkon-dezentral.de
www.expobioenergia.com
www.ihe-woodenergy.com
www.renexpo.com
www.aachener-energietage.de
Jnkping
Sweden
www.elmia.se
Dorota Natucka
Co-editor and Market
Coordinator
dorota@novator.se
JULY
12 - 16 Interforst 2006 10th International Trade Fair for
Forestry and Forest Technology
SEPTEMBER
6-8
Clean power, Combustion solutions for waste,

Local Energy and Industrial By-products
11 - 13 5th European Motor Bio Fuels Forum
Green Power Central & Eastern Europe
27 - 28 Forexpo, Forestry and Wood
Martina Sumenjak
Co-editor and
photographer
info@slobiom-zveza.si
OCTOBER
18 - 20
19 - 22
19 - 22
19 - 22
26 - 29
Trade for decentralized Energy Technology,

Expo Bioenergia
IHE - WoodEnergy 2006
RENEXPO 2006
Energietage
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Subscription
Department
samson@novator.se
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Jeanette Fogelmark
Support
jeanette@novator.se
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Inside: the Pellets map

Letters & Releases

Gas dispute: Prll puts biomass

elcome to another issue of the Bioenergy International, paper version.

tries with local editions. The first one is already printed in

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elcome to this years update of the

some work to produce the map also this year.

associations and suppliers of equipment. We want

dent sources - its 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

Pellets harbour (some examples)

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last year it was 195!

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

excellent work to gather all the information and ....

List of pellets plants 5

Think ahead not just

German Fire Stixx

Wood pellet industry

Fire, water, air

New support for substitution of oil and

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ven the most sceptical consumer

we can notice a lack of

Designed pellets will

top class industry for

List of pellets plants

New bioenergy boiler

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List of pellets plants cont. from page 5

Vapo Oy/Vyri Pellet Factory/Vyri

Schellinger & Co Mhlenwerke/Weingarten

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Baltic wood pellets

Baltic Bioenergy Group (BBG) is one of the

pacity of 60 000 tonnes.

(CEO at BBG) states:

filled our expectations

List of pellets plants cont. from page 6

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Production of pellets in Slovakia

Think ahead not

Sawdust collection logistics is targeted above all

bags of 1000 or 1200

boilers in private houses

New pellet mills in North America

John Colquitt, a veteran

in Georgia, has been

John Colquitt and Harold Arnold during

List of pellets plants cont. from page 7

Buk Real Esteta Sp z o.o/Dobra

oday market situation for pellets

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The complete line installed in

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