{"id":3369,"date":"2016-03-29T11:25:46","date_gmt":"2016-03-29T09:25:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/?p=3369"},"modified":"2018-05-03T09:12:21","modified_gmt":"2018-05-03T07:12:21","slug":"resources-for-biomass-heating-from-bioenergy4business","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/resources-for-biomass-heating-from-bioenergy4business\/","title":{"rendered":"Biomass heating resources from Bioenergy4Business"},"content":{"rendered":"
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One of the brochures on bioheating available from Bioenergy4Business<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

The international project\u00a0Bioenergy4Business<\/a>\u00a0(B4B), funded by \u00a0the Horizon \u00a02020\u00a0Framework Programme of the European\u00a0Union, \u00a0supports \u00a0and promotes the partial\u00a0substitution of fossil fuels used for heating\u00a0with available bioenergy sources, such as \u00a0by \u00a0products\u00a0of \u00a0the wood-based industry, forest\u00a0biomass, pellets, \u00a0straw and other \u00a0agricultural\u00a0biomass products. This ambitious \u00a0European\u00a0project is currently targeting 10 EU countries\u00a0and Ukraine. Presently, European businesses\u00a0are dependent on coal, oil and natural gas,\u00a0which are often imported from politically\u00a0unstable regions: B4B aims at moving on and\u00a0at helping businesses exploit the sustainable\u00a0and considerable economic potential of\u00a0European bioenergy heat.\u00a0B4B not only wants to convince stakeholders\u00a0of the opportunities that are created by local\u00a0value chains for bioenergy heat, but also\u00a0targets policy makers, encouraging and \u2013 in\u00a0some cases \u2013 speeding up the development of\u00a0policy frameworks for sustainable, profitable\u00a0and high-quality bioenergy heat. The project\u00a0contributes to the achievement of the 2020\u00a0RES targets in the EU member states and\u00a0paves the way for the use of bioenergy heat\u00a0beyond 2020.<\/p>\n

Reports guidelines and tools for bioheating\u00a0<\/b><\/h4>\n

Several publications are already available on the project’s website:<\/p>\n

\u2022 Country reports<\/a>\u00a0on the most promising bioheat markets<\/strong> identified in 11 target\u00a0countries;
\n\u2022 Bioenergy framework<\/a>\u00a0conditions for 11 target countries;
\n\u2022 Comparative Analysis<\/a> of Barriers,\u00a0Opportunities and Needs of Promising\u00a0Market Segments;
\n\u2022 Bioenergy business models<\/a>\u00a0& financing conditions;
\n\u2022 Guidelines<\/a> for high quality\u00a0planning of bioenergy systems;
\n\u2022 Best practice examples<\/a> of\u00a0biomass utilization for heat purposes;
\n\u2022 Model contract<\/a> for biomass delivery;
\n\u2022 Calculation tool<\/a>\u00a0of Solid\u00a0Biofuel Parameters for the conversion from prices per\u00a0volume or weight unit to energy;
\n\u2022 Biomass plant dimensioning tool<\/a>\u00a0for estimating the size of biomass boilers based on fuel consumption, size of the building size and insulation level.<\/p>\n

\u2022 Biomass in-house boilers\u00a0for potential operators\/investors<\/a>:\u00a0a\u00a0review of different boiler types used for in-house heating\u00a0applications;<\/p>\n

\u2022\u00a0Supply of solid biofuels\u00a0for mid-scale heat plants<\/a>:\u00a0a report on market\u00a0requirements, biomass resources, biofuel\u00a0production and recommendations for biofuel\u00a0suppliers with respect to mid-scale heat plants.<\/p>\n

Bioheat training activities and seminars coming up<\/b><\/h4>\n

B4B is also meant to show investors and\u00a0operators how biomass can be used in an\u00a0energy-efficient and cost-effective way. Sound\u00a0business and financing models are already in\u00a0place in several of the targeted countries, but\u00a0more efforts are needed to build an enabling,\u00a0fertile environment that can allow bioenergy to\u00a0face the fossil fuel challenge \u2013 and to substitute\u00a0the use of fossil fuels for heating whenever\u00a0and wherever possible, both in district heating\u00a0and in-house applications. To achieve this,\u00a0it is key to deliver sound, reliable know-how\u00a0on both the supply and use of biomass \u2013 and\u00a0to advise businesses in preparing business\u00a0strategies and models. To do so, B4B plans to\u00a0train developers, consultants, heat operators\u00a0and energy services companies to assess and
\ndevelop projects in communities with district\u00a0heating and in sectors where heat is autoproduced.<\/p>\n

The training activities are related to three\u00a0to four national heat markets that were\u00a0identified as the ones that are most promising\u00a0and prone to switch to biomass \u2013 an effort\u00a0that spreads over of the 11 target countries.\u00a0The first national training seminars will take\u00a0place in April\u00a0and\u00a0May. They will be focused\u00a0on one of the identified in-house bioheat\u00a0target markets. Two further national training\u00a0seminars will follow in the 2nd semester of\u00a02016.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The international project\u00a0Bioenergy4Business\u00a0(B4B), funded by \u00a0the Horizon \u00a02020\u00a0Framework Programme of the European\u00a0Union, \u00a0supports \u00a0and promotes the partial\u00a0substitution of fossil fuels used for heating\u00a0with available bioenergy sources, such as \u00a0by \u00a0products\u00a0of…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6,"featured_media":3434,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3,55,5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3369"}],"version-history":[{"count":36,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3429,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3369\/revisions\/3429"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/3434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3369"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3369"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3369"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}