Agenda 2023
Day 1: 16th May 2023
09:30 Opening remarks from the Chair
09:45 Green travel: Biomass in Lignofuels and SAF
- Green fuels as a pathway to net zero
- Opportunities and challenges
- Producer's perspective on feedstock availability
10:15 The role of bioenergy within the European green deal
10:45 Networking break
11:15 SBP Revised Standards
11:45 Waste Wood as Feedstock for Energy and Other Uses in Europe
12:15 Q&A with this morning’s speakers
13:30 Opening remarks from the Chair
13:45 Overcoming challenges of biomass feedstock sourcing in the Nordics
- How feedstock markets are changing
- Fluctuating feedstock prices and the effect of national subsidies in Finland and Sweden
- Collecting value for digestate
14:15 The World Market for Biopower plants
- Key market drivers and trends for biomass to power development
- The global BtP plant asset with regard to capacity, fuel and technology
- Global BtP market outlook
- Focus on the German BtP market
14:45 Global pellet market, an overview
- Global demand for industrial pellets
- Global demand for residential pellets
- Global supply of pellets
- Global pellet market conditions
- Pellet price
- Outlook for global pellet market
15:15 Networking break
15:45 How to make a pellet production more substainable
- Increase the potential for producing more pellets
- Increases the robustness of a pellet plant with multiple products and services
- Options for a negative carbon footprint
16:15 Negative emissions at high efficiency by chemical-looping combustion- For Biomass session
16:45 Networking drinks with the Biogas & Biofuels participants sponsored by Titan
Day two: 17th May 2023
09:30 Opening remarks from the chair
09:45 Will there be wood? - a market update
10:15 How to increase and source more pellets
10:45 Networking break sponsored by Arkema
11:15 Latest developments in the bioenergy sector and future role in net zero energy system
- Latest statistics on bioenergy production, consumption and trade
- Role of bioenergy in net zero energy future
- Key future market trends as opportunities for bioenergy growth
11:45 SURE certification: Certifying compliance with RED II
- Current situation of legal requirements on bioenergy from European Commission
- SURE certification process and experience in implementing RED II
12:15 Panel discussion with this morning’s speakers
12:45 Networking lunch
14:00 Opening remarks from the chair
14:05 New markets and alternative biomass: structural feedstock trends in the European biomass market
- Overview of the market for alternatives
- How Alternatives can supplement the established pellet market
- Alternatives as the Next-Gen feedstock for biofuel and renewable energy production
14:30 How is European policy affecting biomass trading in Europe?
15:00 Networking break sponsored by Arkema
15:30 Alternative biomass: the potential of hemp as a feedstock
- Introduction to industrial hemp as a star fuel of the future
- Using data and technology to deliver demand-driven, agri-biomass supply chains
- The role of hemp in achieving Net Zero across the energy sector and others (construction and feed)
16:00 End of conference