Europe’s solid biomass to energy sector is dominated by SMEs. What is and can be their role in fostering innovation and growth in rural areas in view of the emerging bio-based circular economy? The SecureChain project demonstrated how market uptake of efficient bioenergy systems and sustainable biomass mobilisation by SMEs can be promoted with the help of a dedicated innovation mentoring approach.
The final conference brought together professionals and stakeholders in bioenergy, notably SME managers, experts, advisors, financiers and decision-makers. The conference was hosted by the SecureChain consortium to offer a platform for various experts representing H2020 projects and regions in the bioenergy sector.
Programme & Documents
- Final Conference Programme – 7 June 2018 – incl. speakers‘ short bios
- Finance Day Programme – 6 June 2018
- SecureChain Summary Report 2018 – incl. 15 SME pilot project facsheets
- Financing Risk Assessment Guideline – Brochure
Presentations Conference Day
Opening
- European bioenergy research and innovation policies and the Energy Union
- Dr Maria Georgiadou, Senior Policy Officer, European Commission, DG Research & Innovation
- Mentoring innovation in SMEs to foster bioenergy market uptake – Lessons learnt from SecureChain
- Dr. Uwe Kies, InnovaWood, Belgium / BTG, The Netherlands
Small but smart: How companies can seize bioenergy market opportunities – Testimonials
- Decarbonisation of local communities through bioenergy in Småland
- Göran Gustavsson, Energy Agency of South East Sweden, Växjö, Sweden
- Biomass district heating and cooling networks: experiences from Catalonia
- Oriol Gavaldà, Aiguasol, Spain
- Biomass recovery from waste – the AVEA company case
- Pascal Beese-Vasbender, Bergischer Abfallwirtschaftsverband (BAV), Germany
SecureChain assessment results
- Financing Market Uptake in Bioenergy: Risk Assessment
- Pol Arranz & Frederic Horta, UPC Universitat Politècnica de Catalunya, Spain
- LCA-based Sustainability Assessment of Bioenergy Chains
- Gudrun Obersteiner, BOKU-ABF, Vienna, Austria
- Bioenergy Market Uptake in SMEs: Initial Conclusions
- Patrick Reumerman, BTG Biomass Technology Group, The Netherlands
Regional Perspectives & Panel Discussion
- Biomass mobilisation for the emerging bioeconomy. BIO4ECO project
- Adriano Raddi, CTFC Forest Science Centre of Catalonia, Spain
- Up_Running: Success cases for mobilization of wood from agricultural prunings
- Manolis Karampinis, CERTH Centre for Research and Technology Hellas, Greece
- Biomass from marginal land and Bioenergy Villages: FORBIO and BioVill
- Dominik Rutz, WIP Renewable Energies, Germany
Presentations Finance Day
Market opportunities and company success stories
- Financing schemes for biomass district heating and cooling – Case study from Catalonia
- Oriol Gavaldà, Aiguasol, Spain
- Bioenergy uptake through national energy funds in Småland, Sweden
- Göran Gustavsson, Energy Agency of South East Sweden, Växjö, Sweden
- Market opportunities and sustainable bioenergy financing in Greece
- Prof. Georgios Ntalos, Technical Educational Institute of Larissa, Department of Wood and Furniture, Greece
Financial sector perspective
- Green bonds and gren loans for bioenergy – state of the market
- Matteo Bigoni, Climate Bonds Initiative, London, UK
- Challenges for financing bioenergy and biomass projects
- Dominik Rutz, WIP Renewable Energies, Germany
- Regional Energy Fund for Bioenergy and Other Renewables
- Karel Asselbergs, StartGreen / Regional Energy Fund Overijssel, NL
Photos
Conference organisers
BTG Biomass Technology Group BV, The Netherlands
email: info@btgworld.com / phone: +31 53 486 11 91 / www.btgworld.com
CTFC Forest Sciences Centre of Catalonia, Spain
email: info@ctfc.cat / phone: +34 973 48 1752 326 / www.ctfc.cat
A registered event of the 18th European Sustainable Energy Week (EUSEW)
Last webpage update: 1 July 2018
