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Sustainable Strategies for Biomass Use in the European Context

Analysis in the charged debate on national guidelines and the competition between solid, liquid and gaseous bioenergy sources

The increase in the proportion of renewable energy is a key objective of many policy instruments and programmes both at the national and European level. All programmes focus on promoting the use of biomass to produce energy and on introducing new conversion technology. Introducing new technologies onto the market can only be successful over the long term, however, if doing so is beneficial to the environment and economically attractive in the context of the goal of a harmonised European energy market.

The aim of this project is thus to analyse and evaluate possible strategies for increased use of biomass in the context of the German, European and world situations, development scenarios and future markets for bioenergy sources. The studies cover the EU-28 countries for the period from 2000 to 2020. The future supply of biomass and the future demand for biomass in the EU-28 countries are examined in two end point scenarios to identify significant paths of development.