BIOMASS FUTURES:

Biomass role in achieving the Climate Change &

Renewables EU policy targets. Demand and Supply
dynamics under the perspective of stakeholders

EIE/08/ 653/ June 2009- December 2011

 Biomass: a very important component of RES policy & targets BUT
Climate change
Questions remain:
how can Europe deliver
on the biomass potential
sustainably?
Security of supply what role can biomass
play in meeting the RES-D
targets?
what will be the demand
and how does this
Demographic changes 1 Ha interact with supply?
how will sustainability
indicators shape the
Source: BBC

biomass future?
how can policy makers
Consumers attitude
get access to credible,
up-to-date info in order
to deliver BAPs?
Project Summary

The project aims to quantify the sustainable role biomass can play
to meet the RESD targets for 2020.

To do so, the consortium will work through a series of interrelated

work packages in order to provide a better understanding of
bioenergy demand and supply dynamics, and to what extend and
how a sustainable production and use of domestic and imported
biomass sources can contribute to EU27 energy needs.

The project will be executed in close collaboration with key

stakeholders to identify sustainable options for bioenergy
development and deployment to the year 2030, and to increase
awareness about the opportunities and the risks, and how these
can be addressed.

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Objectives & main steps
The objective of this project is to use modeling frameworks in order
to inform policy with quantitative information on the role biomass
can play to meet the RES-D targets for 2020. Main steps are:
Develop linkages to well established models (Admire- REBUS,
BIOTRANS, PRIMES), harmonise data and assumptions and refine
spatial resolution
Quantify demand and supply dynamics through market
segmentation (heat, electricity-CHP and transport)
Provide indicators for indirect land use, air, water, soil and social
issues. Quantify their impacts on supply.
Assess the role biomass can play in meeting the EU policy targets for
RES-D at EU27 and MS level.
Inform and support policy makers at European and national level
and generate information for biomass role which will be taken into
account in the formation of NAPs.
Collaborate with stakeholders to monitor their perspectives & views,
get their feedback and integrate it to the project outputs/
deliverables.

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Expected Results
Quantitative scenarios for sustainable demand & supply patterns for
biomass in EU27 with disaggregation at Member state level that will
be useful for policy makers to address issues in implementing the
Renewable Energy Directive.
Concise and convincing conclusions and recommendations to
stakeholders from the energy and fuels industry, biomass suppliers,
and policy makers on the role biomass can play to the heat,
electricity-CHP and transport markets demand in EU27 and per
Member state.
Spatially detailed information on biomass availability and costs in
the EU27 and Member States, including the key parameters that
affect this, and policy measures of influence
Evaluation and quantification of the impacts that sustainability
criteria (as they will be formed by the Commission) plus criteria on
indirect land use change, water, air, soil and socials aspects can have
on the availability and costs of biomass.
Interactive communication with market and policy stakeholders to
identify the demand and supply aspects required to increase the use
of bioenergy and meet the RES-D targets.

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Co-ordinator
Dr Calliope Panoutsou
Centre for Environmental Policy
Imperial College London
c.panoutsou@imperial.ac.uk

PARTNERS
International Systems of Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA,
AT)
Centre for Renewable Energy Sources (CRES, GR)
Oeko- Institut, Institute for Applied Ecology (Oeko, DE)
Energy Research Centre of the Netherlands (ECN, NL)
Alterra b.v. (NL)
Institute for European Environmental Policy (IEEP, UK)
Insitute of Communication and Computer Systems/ E3M
Lab (ICCS, GR)
Website: www.biomassfutures.eu
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