{"id":7363,"date":"2018-11-07T11:05:52","date_gmt":"2018-11-07T10:05:52","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/?p=7363"},"modified":"2018-11-07T11:55:47","modified_gmt":"2018-11-07T10:55:47","slug":"iea-bioenergy-country-reports-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/iea-bioenergy-country-reports-2018\/","title":{"rendered":"IEA Bioenergy Country Reports 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>IEA Bioenergy recently published in-depth analyses of current bioenergy state-of-art within different countries.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieabioenergy.com\/iea-publications\/country-reports\/2018-country-reports\/\">country reports<\/a>\u00a0are based on IEA statistical data, combined with data and information provided by the IEA Bioenergy Executive Committee and its Tasks.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Each report is structured as follows:<\/p>\n<ul style=\"text-align: justify;\">\n<li>Analysis of national policy framework and related renewable energy targets;<\/li>\n<li>Total Primary Energy Supply (TPES) by resource and the contribution of bioenergy (IEA statistics 2016);<\/li>\n<li>Relevant funding programs, major research institutes and projects;<\/li>\n<li>Latest development trends within bioenergy.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong><u>Bioenergy policies and status of implementation \u2013 Europe<\/u><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>EU Policy framework<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieabioenergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CountryReport2018_EU_final.pdf\">Europe country report<\/a>\u00a0opens with a summary of the Renewable Energy Directive (2009\/28\/EC) and its targets within European final energy consumption and transport sector by 2020. \u00a0To be counted within the transport target, biofuels need to meet specific sustainability criteria such as a lifecycle GHG emission reduction of at least 35% by 2017 and of 50% (up to 60% for new installations) afterward.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Alongside the Renewable Energy Directive, the amended Fuel Quality Directive (FQD) 2009\/30\/EC requires the road transport fuel mix in the EU to be 6% less carbon intensive than a fossil diesel and gasoline baseline by 2020. At the end of September 2015, Directive (EU) 2015\/1513 (amending RED I and the Fuel Quality Directive) introduced an indicative 0.5% target for advanced biofuels (in reference for national targets) and confirmed the minimum of 60% GHG savings for biofuels produced in installations running after October 2015. A report from the EU Commission, along with a Staff Working Document, addressed the sustainability issue of biomass sources in electricity and heating &amp; cooling sectors, prior to the definition of 2030 Climate and Energy Policy Framework targets as the first attempt to elaborate a comprehensive post-2020 policy framework.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">A proposal of a new Renewable Energy Directive has been eventually agreed on June 14, 2018: it will enter in force on 1 January 2021. It envisages further strengthening sustainability criteria for biofuels used in transport as well as extending them to solid and gaseous biomass fuels used for power and heating &amp; cooling production. A risk-based approach will be adopted with regard to forest biomass in order to minimise LULUCF (Land Use and Land use Change and Forestry).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Statistics explained<\/strong><\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_7367\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-7367\" style=\"width: 365px\" class=\"wp-caption alignright\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/figura-IEA-BION.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-7367\" src=\"http:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/figura-IEA-BION.png\" alt=\"Figure 4 of the Europe Coountry Report of IEA Bioenergy. Development of total primary energy supply from bioenergy in the EU 1990 \u2013 2016 (Source: World Energy Balances \u00a9 OECD\/IEA 2018)\" width=\"365\" height=\"209\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/figura-IEA-BION.png 596w, https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/figura-IEA-BION-300x172.png 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 365px) 100vw, 365px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-7367\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Figure 4 of the Europe Country Report of IEA Bioenergy. Development of total primary energy supply from bioenergy in the EU 1990 \u2013 2016 (Source: World Energy Balances \u00a9 OECD\/IEA 2018)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Speaking of 28 EU Member states, bioenergy represented about two thirds of renewable energy sources (5,881 PJ -Petajoules-, 8.8% on a total of 66,927 PJ) within 2016 TPES.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Considering a EU population of 511.3 million, each European citizen consumed 130.9 GJ\/capita of TPES in 2016 (11.5 accounting for bioenergy consumption per capita).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Most of it (about 70%) derives from solid biofuels, followed by biogas, biodiesel, renewable municipal waste and biogasoline. Despite this, biogas was the one with the highest increasing trend between 2011 and 2016 (about 11%\/y).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Concerning bioenergy distribution amongst different sectors, the share of bioenergy within the total consumption accounts for 5.6% in the production of electricity, for 4.4% in transportation sector (transport biofuels) and for 2.4% in overall fuel and heat consumption (whereas direct biomass stands for 15.0%).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To read the summary of all country reports\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieabioenergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/IEA-Bioenergy-Countries-Report-Update-2018-Bioenergy-policies-and-status-of-implementation.pdf\">click here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">To read the full Europe Country Report &#8220;European Union \u2013 2018 update Bioenergy policies and status of implementation, including research focus related to bioenergy&#8221;\u00a0<strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.ieabioenergy.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/10\/CountryReport2018_EU_final.pdf\">click here<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IEA Bioenergy recently published in-depth analyses of current bioenergy state-of-art within different countries. These\u00a0country reports\u00a0are based on IEA statistical data, combined with data and information provided by the IEA Bioenergy&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":7482,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7363"}],"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\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7363"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7363\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7481,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7363\/revisions\/7481"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/7482"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7363"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7363"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.besustainablemagazine.com\/cms2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7363"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}