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Editorial

Dear readers,

IEE Project BioEnerGIS is now entering in the final – packed – 6 months of its life and through the next issues of our Newsletter we’d like to keep you updated about the re-sults the Project is achieving onwards.

The heat demand from residential, public, industrial and tertiary sectors in Lombardy, Northern Ireland, Slovenia and Wallonia has been assessed and is now ready to be pro-cessed, together with the assessments of po-tential biomass – by the web GIS-based De-cision Support System BIOPOLE.

The regulatory and technical frameworks, the analysis of the best available techniques and the criteria resulting from the surveys among the experts and stakeholders involved in the Project will soon complete the set of information needed by BIOPOLE to iden-tify the optimal localization for new biomass plants and thus to give food for thoughts to the regional stakeholders networks.

In this 3rd issue of our Newsletter we have the pleasure to inform you about the meth-odology and the results of the assessment of heat demand in the four case study regions.

Alessandro Chiesa, Project Coordinator

Newsletter available atwww.bioenergis.eu

Duration :11/2008-10/2011

Contract no. :IEE/07/638/SI2499702

Contacts:

Project coordinator

CESTEC S.p.A.Centre for Technological Development, Energy and Competitiveness of Lombardian SMEs

Alessandro Chiesa Tel. +39 02 66737353Fax +39 02 66737500chiesa@cestec.it

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GIS-baSed decISIon Support SyStem aImed at a SuStaInable enerGetIc exploItatIon of bIomaSS at reGIonal level

NEWSLETTER of the BioEnerGIS project

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BioEnerGIS NewsPOTENTIAL HEAT DEMAND Methodology for Lombardy, Northern Ireland, Slovenia and Wallonia

The amounts of heat demand per region and per sector are summarized in the following table:

Region Heat demand - resi-dential (GWh/y)

Heat demand – public and tertiary (GWh/y)

Heat demand - indus-trial (GWh/y)

Heat demand - OVERALL (GWh/y)

Lombardy 69.411 2.402 2.325 77.138

Northern Ireland 17.869 866 2.374 21.110

Slovenia 14.336 5.205 2.316 21.857

Wallonia 66.414 4.091 2.249 72.753

Starting from the Biomass Action Plan (COM (2005) 628 fi-nal) up to the Directive on renewable energy (2009/28/EC), the European policy promotes the use of biomasses in heating, and particularly in district heating systems (collective heating), in reason of their opportunity to join renewable with energy saving, to control emissions and to diversify the types of fuels.

BioEnerGIS project has taken these recommendations by the choice to identify as biomass end-users the district heating sys-tems and to adopt therefore the heat demand as the driving cri-terion for plant localization.

For this reasons, the methodological approach in the assess-ment of the heat demand has placed emphasis on the residen-tial, public, tertiary, commercial and industrial end-users that could be potentially connected to a DHS and on the investiga-tion of localization and intensity of the relative heat demand.

In each region, BioEnerGIS partners have identified databases suitable for the localization of the end-users: detailed maps (lo-calization and extension) of buildings for each use were mostly available and the average heat demand of each building was estimated using national or regional building energy consump consumption benchmark figures (from literature or from spe-cific analyses).

Specific energy data from audit campaigns, projects and inves-tigations specifically realized for BioEnerGIS were also used.

The survey on heat demand potentially connectable to a bio-mass DHS in the four regions has resulted in maps, divided in the main final users sectors, gridded on 500 m * 500 m cells.

Data are strictly comparable only for the residential sector, since in the four regions all the final users (with the exception of the ones already connected to a DHS) were included in the assessment; for the other sectors, in each region were counted only specific end-users which could be locally more interested in the use of heat from DHS and about which adequate infor-mation was available.

In the following paragraphs, the output maps are presented to-gether with some remarkable points about regional methodol-ogy.

To learn more about the overall methodology and the results of the assessment in each region, please visit the project website www.bioenergis.eu.

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LOMBARDY

Data sources Dataset(s)

Regional Informative System for Environment and Energy of Lombardy Region (SIRENA)Lombardy Region, CESTEC

Energy demand per carriers and per sector at regional and at municipal level; GHG emissions (in tons of CO2 eq) from energy uses (energy consumption and production) at regional and at municipal level; power plants (size, production, ef-ficiency, ...) at regional level (for each year 2000-2008)

Italian National Institute of Statistics Information on population and houses (last Census dates back to 2001)

Dedicated survey on hospitals and local health departmentsLombardy Region Health Department, CESTEC

Punctual information on heated volume, type of energy car-rier and energy demand (2008)

Audit GIS Project by Fondazione Cariplo Data from energy audit for public buildings in municipalities participating in the audit campaign

Provveditorato agli Studi – Regional School Office, Lom-bardy Region

Punctual information on localization and number of students for about 8.000 school

Energy Management of Lombardy Region Punctual information on energy demand for the building owned by Lombardy Region

Lombardy Region – Education Department Database of the regional libraries (localization and data on surface of about 1.200 libraries)

Regional Observatory on CommerceLombardy Region – Commerce Department

Information on localization and surface for about 8.500 me-dium and large shops

Lombardy Region – Sport and young people Department Typology and localization of 2.300 sport centres

Lombardy Region – Territory and Urban planning Depart-ment – Land use in Lombardy map (2010)

Land use cartography: map (polygons) of area for productive sector (minimum area 400 m2)

₪ Lombardy

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Residential sectorThe yearly energy consumption, available at municipal scale (unbundled in census tracts) and itemized by fuel, using no. of apartments, buildings, average apartment size and percentage of heating per energy carriers at municipal level as proxies, gives the picture of the heat demand in residential sector.

Picture 1: Heat demand in the residental sector in Lombardy

Tertiary sectorThe assessment of heat demand in public, service and com-mercial sector combines both information on heated surface or other proxies for heat demand (specific for each localized

Picture 2: An example of heat demand assessment: schools in the Munici-pality of Sarnico, BG (CESTEC, Source: audits and estimations)

An aspect that may affect the actual convenience to build DHS is the type of buildings: in Lombardy, about 75% of residential buildings are single or double family, while 13% have more than 5 apartments. As for the number of apartments, more than 57% are located in buildings with more than 5 apartments (more than 2,5 million of apartments).As concerns the typology of heating system, about 54% of the houses has an independent heating system, 35% have central-ized system, and the remaining 11% do not have a fixed heating system.

Picture 3: Heat demand in the tertiary sector in Lombardy

Industrial sectorThe companies considered more interesting for DHS as for their energy demand (temperature, energy carriers and uses) are: food, wine and beer production, laundry, galvanic and cos-metic, services for tourism, services for pets.Heating and hot water uses have been diffusely considered in all industries.

Picture 3: Heat demand in the industrial sector in Lombardy

building) and energy data of sample buildings. Unfortunately a complete census on the heated surface of all tertiary buildings isn’t available for Lombardy; only the consumers for which was available enough information have been counted.Energy data come from audit campaigns, energy managements and surveys specifically made for BioEnerGIS.

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NORTHERN IRELAND

Data sources Dataset(s)

Northern Ireland National Mapping Agency 1:1.000/1:2.500 Base mapping; Pointer Building Dataset (building footprint/floor areas of all building locations and types in Northern Ireland)

Northern Ireland Statistical Research Agency Public sector buildings point dataset

Chartered Institute of Building and Surveying Engineer

Building heat consumption dataset (national building energy consumption benchmark figures - in kWh/m2 year - for the main building types in the residential, public, tertiary and production sectors)

The higher concentrations of heat demand occur in the East of the region, centred around the urban centres of Belfast and in the urban belt South West of Belfast to Dungannon. High values are also around the other urban areas including Derry and Coleraine in the North West of the region, Enniskillen and Omagh in the South West and Ballymena in the North.

Picture 4: Heat demand in the residential sector in Northern Ireland

Picture 5: Heat demand in the tertiary sector in Northern Ireland

Picture 6: Heat demand in the industrial sector in Northern Ireland

₪ Northern Ireland

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SLOVENIA

Full name Dataset(s)

Surveying and Mapping Authority of Slovenia – Ministry of the environment and spatial planning

Vector point dataset of all building types; Raster base map-ping dataset

Local Energy Concepts (Local energy concept is a planning strategy of community energy policy; it includes the analysis of existent condition in the field of energy use and energy supply)

Building heat consumption dataset, mainly in the field of public sector buildings and larger companies

Gradbeni Inštitut ZRMK d.o.o. Average consumption for residential buildings and for admin-istrative buildings and schools

Recknagel, Sprenger, Schramek “Taschenbuch fur Heizung + Klimatechnik” 2002

Average consumption for hospitals, medical buildings, and churches

Univerza na primorskem, Fakulteta za manegement, diplom-ska naloga “Strategija energetske učinkovitosti bolnišnice” Average consumption for hospitals and medical buildings

Residential sectorAverage energy consumption has been differentiated regarding the time period in which the building was constructed:

- before 1979: 200 kWh/m2*y- between 1971 and 1980: 280 kWh/m2*y - after 1980: 125 kWh/m2*y

Picture 7: Heat demand in the residential sector in Slovenia

Tertiary sectorHeat demand was estimated for the following building types: trade, health, education, public lighting, catering and others.

Picture 8: An examples of average energy consumption figures for public building types from the Local Energetic Concept of Vrhnika municipality,

Slovenia

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Picture 9: Heat demand in the public and tertiary sector in Slovenia

Industrial sectorHeat demand was estimated (excluding not thermal uses and high temperature uses) per municipalities, allocated on the industrial areas, on the basis of a questionnaire carried out in companies with annual electricity consumption of 5.000 MWh/y at least.

Picture 10: Heat demand in the industrial sector in Slovenia

₪ Wallonia

WALLONIA

Full name Dataset(s)

Project Informatique de Cartographie Continue - Computer Continuous Cartography Project (PICC)

In PICC each building is represented as a polygon, with ac-curacy of 25 cm: for each polygon is given a category code corresponding to a detailed typology (about 30 different typologies are included in the db)

Plan de Localisation Informatique - Computer Processing Location Plan (PLI)

PLI includes polygons representing each building (in 1:10.000 scale), not classified per typology

Institut de Conseil et d’Etudes en Développement Durable - Institute of research and consulting in sustainable develop-ment,

Heat demand coefficients

Confederation Construction of Wallonia Heat demand coefficients

Laboratoire d’Etude en Planification Urbaine et Rurale of Gembloux Agricultural University Heat demand coefficients

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Residential sector

Picture 11: Heat demand in the residential sector in Slovenia

Tertiary sectorWhere applicable, that is where cartographical information on buildings - broken down by specific category of use - is avail-able, the following coefficients of average heat demand were used:

Category kWh/m²

Civil service 158

Town hall 158

Hospital 189

Post office 158

Fire station 158

Police station 158

Cultural 155

School 129

Building 111

Sport complex 158

Train station 158

Bus station 158

Museum 155

Church, place of worship 155

Filling station 111

Airport and airfield 93

Department store, area < 400 m² 576

Department store, area 400 to 2.500 m² 119

Department store, area > 2500 m² 79

Coefficients of heat demand for tertiary buildings in Wallonia

Picture 12: Heat demand in the public and tertiary sector in Slovenia

Industrial sector

Picture 12: Heat demand in the industrial sector in Slovenia

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Other news

BioEnerGIS at the Central European Biomass Conference 201126th – 29th January 2011, Graz, Austria

At the Central European Biomass Con-ference 2011 an up-to-date overview of the political, economic and technologi-cal developments on the overall sector of biomass energy utilisation was provided to more than 1.000 registered guests from 56 Nations. At the first day of the conference 7 excursions to various bio-mass plant manufacturers and biomass processing plants in Austria covering the branches biomass treatment as well as bi-ogas-, bioheat- and CHP generation were organized.

The “Kick-off” for the following three days lasting information and dissemina-tion part was formed by the 5th IPCC report about climate change and secure energy supply as well as a statement on present research activities and techno-logical trends in Austria. Subsequently 43 presentations from international ex-perts in 6 subject-specific sessions were performed with reference to following

topics: raw material availability and provision, conversion technologies for heating, power and fuels, industrial ap-plications and the funding of bioenergy projects, environmental effects and mar-ket developments as well as political developments and required actions. The highlight of the conference was formed by two IEA-Bioenergy-Workshops on “Torrefaction of biomass” and “Aerosols from small-scale biomass combustion plants”. For the first time an additional, separate conference day on “Short rota-tion wood and new agricultural raw ma-terials” was organized aiming particu-larly at farmers.

Next to the huge number of presentations actual information on current European projects were disseminated to the attend-ants by more than 60 poster presenta-tions. Among these, there was the poster of BioEnerGIS project in the Bioenergy 2020+ GmbH stand. Here conference

participants had the chance for gathering information on the project and for inten-sive face to face discussions with the re-sponsible project members.

Further information on the conference as well as performed presentations and ab-stracts of projects presented on the poster session are provided on the homepage of the Austrian biomass association (URL: http://www.biomasseverband.at).

New biogas plant in Slovenia

Slovenian company Keter Organica opened new biogas plant NOVA in Vučja vas Slovenia. The biogas plant NOVA is a farm biogas power plant using cow manure and pig manure for its operation. The remaining part of the raw material consists of corn silage, sorghum silage, mixed clover silage and glycerol. The plant will produce 1MW of electricity and 1MW of thermal energy.

95% of the produced electricity is being supplied to the grid while 5% is used for the plant itself. About 20% of the yearly value of the heat produced in the process is used for the heating of the production

process. The remaining heat is used for supporting other branches adding value to the new products, such as bioethanol production, greenhouses and digestate driers. Part of the heat is used for the heating of the business facilities, confer-ence hall, laboratory and other buildings.There is a laboratory next to the biogas power plant. It is divided into two parts; one for the study of the anaerobic pro-cess, process optimization and raw mate-rial evaluation, the other for the devel-opment of bioalcohol production. The biogas power plant contributed greatly to the development of the rural environ-ment. By decentralizing power supply

it has made the area energetically inde-pendent. It has created new areas of busi-ness and new job opportunities includ-ing high-tech jobs. By doing so it has decentralized the knowledge as young educated people are starting to return to the rural environment to live and work there, which is making it a more valuable place to live in.

Keter Organica is the biggest supplier of the technology for biomass plants and is the only company in Slovenia to have developed a technology for biogas plants by itself.

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Events

International Training Seminar on Biomass heating – market development and technologies

Date: 17 - 19 May 2011 Location: Linz, Austria Link: www.oec-en.at

The 3-day international training seminar will provide informa-tion and know-how on local market development and technolo-gies for automatic biomass heating, based on the experience in Austria. It will focus on small- and mid-scale projects, fuelled by wood pellets and wood chips, covering solutions for homes, smaller commercial/public buildings and district heating grids (up to a few hundred kW). The seminar will offer interactive learning in an international group, educational site-visits and presentations by experts in biomass technologies, market de-velopment, forestry and environment.

The Joensuu Forestry Networking Week 2011

Date: 22 - 27 May 2011 Location: Joensuu, Finland Link: www.efi.int/portal/news_events/events/extra/2011/jfnw2011/

The Networking Week is an initiative connecting and increas-ing the interaction between young and experienced scientists, professionals and stakeholders in forestry from different parts of Europe.

European Biomass Conference and Exhibition

Date: 6-10 June, 2011Location: Berlin, GermanyOrganiser: WIP-Renewable Energies (with the support of ETA-Florence Renewable Energies and of the European Commission, DG Joint Research Centre)Link: www.conference-biomass.com

The 19th European Biomass Conference and Exhibition (EU BC&E), the leading platform for the world’s biomass special-ists, will take place in Berlin, Germany (Conference 6-10 June 2011 - Exhibition 6-9 June 2011). This event is hosting more than 800 presentations in plenary, oral and visual sessions. The exhibition is designed to showcase biomass products, uti-lization and conversion technologies. It targets all interested parties in the commercial use of biomass, promoting business while at the same time providing a forum to network.

International Biomass Conference

Date: 24-25 May 2011Location: Leipzig, GermanyOrganiser: German Biomass Research Center in Leipzig, GermanyLink: www.ibc-leipzig.de

From 24 to 25 May 2011, the annual meeting of the German Biomass Research Center will take place in the Forum for Contemporary History in Leipzig (ZFL). At this event, certain topics of the current state of research and development on one hand and the practical implementation on the other hand, will be presented and discussed. The results should offer the pos-sibility of exchange with various stakeholders from industry and academia, politics and administration. Thus, this event also contributes to the development and expansion and strengthen-ing of research networks.

4 th Annual Biorefining of Pulp and Paper Industry

Date: 24-26 MayLocation: Barcelona, SpainOrganiser: Pira InternationalLink: www.biorefining-conference.com

Pira International’s 4th annual Biorefining conference provides an ideal platform for papermakers to get up to speed with the latest research, innovations and case studies. The 2011 pro-gramme contains even more exclusive case-studies from biore-fineries all over the globe demonstrating that biorefining has matured from a blue-sky technology into a viable commercial reality. It will feature presentations from Borregaard, Chemtex, British Sugar Group, TNO Quality of Life, Wood K Plus, Cov-ey Consulting, Avantium Chemicals, VTT Technical Research Centre, Alberta Innovates - Technology Futures, National Institute of Advanced Industrial Science and Technol-ogy, Japan and many others.

EREC2011 - Europe’s Renewable Energy Policy Conference

Date: 24th May 2011Location: Brussels, BelgiumOrganiser: European Renewable Energy CouncilLink: http://www.erec.org/erec2011/conference/registration.html

Europe’s Renewable Energy Conference, organised by EREC and by the EU’s Hungarian Presidency, will gather high-level EU Officials, Politicians and CEOs of Renewable Energy In-dustry by providing a unique platform for discussion and dia-logue between industry and politics, debate the implementa-tion of the Renewable Energy Directive and outline Europe’s energy pathways to 2050.

2nd NGVA European International Show & Workshops

Date: 7-9 June, 2011Location: Berlin, Germany Organiser: NGVA Europe/NGV Communications GroupLink: www.ngv2011berlin.com

The event is organized by NGVA Europe (European NGV As-sociation) together with NGV Communications Group and hosted by Erdgas Mobil (German NGV Association) that in-cludes an exhibition and five workshops addressing the topics of utmost importance to the NGV industry. On this occasion, NGV aims to boost the traditional conferences scene of the seg-ment by promoting a different and attractive interaction with the participants in the form of 5 workshops, with diverse facili-tators and speakers.

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British Renewable Energy Awards 2011

Date: 16 June 2011Location: London, UKOrganiser: REA, Renewable Energy AssociationLink: http://www.r-e-a.net/events/rea-events/awards

This year’s Awards ceremony promises to be bigger and better than ever after such a busy year for the renewables industry. Celebrate the achievements of companies and individuals who have done most to take forward Renewable Energy in the UK. The REA runs these annual awards for outstanding achieve-ment in renewables. The Awards were inaugurated in 2006 to honor achievements in the British renewable energy sector.

The European Biomass Association is organizing the AEBIOM European Bioenergy Conference 2011

Date: 29-30 June 2011Location: Brussels, BelgiumLink: http://www.aebiom.org/?cat=9

The European Bioenergy EUROPE Conference organ-ized by AEBIOM in July 2010 took place in parallel with the RENEXPO® Bioenergy EUROPE Exhibition and brought together over 300 experts to discuss the EU policies, biomass potential and supply related issues, bioenergy markets, financing possibilities, the evaluation of national renewable energy action plans,sustainability criteria and bioenergy tech-nologies to produce heat,electricity and biofuels.

International Nordic Bioenergy 2011

Date: on 5-9 September 2011Location: Jyväskylä, FinlandOrganiser: FINBIO – The Bioenergy Association of Finland in co-operation with SVEBIO (Sweden), NOBIO (Norway) and DANBIO (Denmark) Link: www.bioenergy2011.finbioenergy.fi

The Nordic Bioenergy Conference connected with large Inter-national Bioenergy and Wood Exhibition and Trade Fair is the best place to get modern and up-dated information about bioen-ergy solutions, technology and logistic systems in concrete and in practice. Several Technical Tours into the bioenergy and bio-fuel production sites and facilities are extra bonuses. The Con-ference is arranged by FINBIO – The Bioenergy Association of Finland in fixed co-operation with SVEBIO (Sweden), NOBIO (Norway) and DANBIO (Denmark) and with hundreds of our member organisations.

Forlener 2011 – Forest-Wood-Energy

Date: 23-25 September 2011Location: Biella, ItalyOrganiser: Paulowina ItaliaLink: www.forlener.it

FORLENER (Forest-Wood-Energy) is the first and main Italian fair exclusively focused on the forest-wood energy chain cov-ering all its products and services: from forest management and plantations of fast-growth species to the utilization of wood as an energy source at all levels (household, communities, indus-tries); stoves, boilers & chimneys; machinery and equipment for cut, pick-up and first manufacture of timber; antifire equip-ment and safe working devices.A fair with more than 17.000 square metres is enriched with a whole series of events such as: live demonstrations of agro-forestry equipment; workshops on bio-energy and heating with wood; guided tours to wood-biomass power plants in operation, live demonstrations and simulation of means of transportation, equipment and techniques for the prevention of fires.

Expobioenergia 2011

Date: 18-20 October 2011Location: Valladolid, Spain Organiser: AVEBIOM, CeseforLink: www.expobioenergia.com

Expobioenergia 2011 is the 6 th edition of the international conference and fair focussing on bioenergy. It is one of the most important events both in Spain and internationally. The event will be held in Valladolid on 18-20 October 2011. The success of the last editions has made Expobioenergia a unique meeting place for the bioenergy industry. Expobioenergia, held annually, has already established itself as an important player in bioenergy field offering exhibitors and visitors the follow-ing: a high level of specialisation, an exhibition presenting the machinery in operation, business opportunities with opportuni-ties to access the international market. In parallel to the Exhibition, AVEBIOM organises the 6 th International Bioenergy Congress where the latest innovations and developments in bioenergy sector will be presented. This year, the Congress will focus on boilers, pellets, energy crops, forestry, sustainability, CHP, gasification and biogas. Participants will have the opportunity to meet potential cli-ents, partners for business product and market development. It’s a complementary channel for marketing and developing your business through establishing new personal contacts with Spanish companies and with other countries companies.

A comprehensive list of events relevant to biofuels and bioenergy is provided on the BioenergyWiki at http://www.bioenergy-wiki.net/Events