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 Climate
BUT
change Questions
remain:
how can Europe
deliver on the
Security of
supply biomass potential
sustainably?
what role can
biomass play in
meeting the RES-D
Demographic
changes
1 Ha targets?
what will be the
demand and how
Source: BBC

does this interact

Consumers with supply?
attitude how will
sustainability
indicators shape the
biomass future?
how can policy
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
Website: for European Environmental Policy
www.biomassfutures.eu
(IEEP, UK)
Insitute of Communication and Computer 6