Transcript WOOD ENERGY AND CLEANTECH

WOOD ENERGY
AND CLEANTECH
project for the Development of
Sustainable Clean Wood Energy
in Central Baltic region
Project information
WWW.WOODENERGYPROJECT.EU
Aim - to increase knowledge and interest
among the forest owners and other stakeholders
about bioenergy and sustainable development
in the Baltic Sea region.
Tasks:
promote wood as an energy source and
improves knowledge about wood energy,
eco-friendly techniques and clean
technologies;
develop regional action plans and
strategies on how to raise the efficiency of
wood energy;
lead to a higher level of skills by
knowledge transfer in district heating as
well as in forestry.
Project focus:
A cross-sectoral and transnational approach
where forestry, wood supply, energy
production and energy distribution are
investigated and analyzed.
Project duration: 2010–2012
Wood as energy source
Wood energy has been a traditional energy
source. Even in modern times an important part
of assortment from the forest was fuelwood for
heating. Between 1950s and 1990s the energy
sources for heating changed to fuel oil, fossil gas,
coal, and electricity. In a time of rising oil
prices, global warming and sustainable
solutions, there is an emerging interest in wood
energy caused by:
awareness and knowledge of pollution and
global warming;
price levels and not reliable and
satisfactory supply of oil and gas in recent
years;
highly efficient wood energy boilers,
combined heating and power production
(CHP) and novel distribution systems;
increasing number of regions with
formulated renewable energy strategies
and stable rules for investments.
Wood Energy Project
promotes wood as
an energy source and
improves knowledge
Project regions
Land area and population density in the Project
countries and regions
The forest cover in the Östergötland County
of Sweden is 66%, in South Estonia and the
Vidzeme Planning Region of Latvia this figure
is about 50%. The productive forest land is about
90% of the entire forest area.
Private non-industrial forest owners manage
about 50% of forestlands in the Östergötland
County, about 39% in Vidzeme and 35% in
South Estonia.
Project partners
SWEDEN
County Administrative Board of
Östergötland – the leading organization of the
Project
www.lansstyrelsen.se/ostergotland
Swedish Forest Agency
www.skogsstyrelsen.se
ESTONIA
Estonian University of Life Sciences
www.emu.ee
Private Forest Centre
www.eramets.ee
LATVIA
Vidzeme Planning Region
www.vidzeme.lv
Forest Advisory Service Centre
www.mkpc.llkc.lv
Products and outputs
Project web pages for each Project country and
organization;
reports;
extension materials for forest owners,
guidelines and strategies for forest management;
information brochure about forest sector and
wood energy in the Project regions;
Project newsletters;
exhibition about the forest sector in Project
regions;
movie about wood energy;
various pilot projects in each Project country.
http://projektwebbar.lansstyrelsen.se/wood-energy-and-cleantech
Brochure
Brochure “Wood energy – a hot topic” is
about wood energy in the Project regions, with
information useful for decision makers,
foresters, forest owners and general public
WWW.WOODENERGYPROJECT.EU
Ongoing activities
Seminars
Workshops
Benchmarking
Study tours
Competence inventories
http://projektwebbar.lansstyrelsen.se/wood-energy-and-cleantech
News