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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 sourceWood 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 about wood energy
Project regions
Land area and population density in the Project countries and regions
Östergötland County
Vid
zem
e
Pla
nnin
g
Reg
ion
South
Est
onia
R
egio
nThe 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 partnersSWEDEN
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 Centrewww.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 publicWWW.WOODENERGYPROJECT.EU
Ongoing activitiesSeminarsWorkshopsBenchmarkingStudy toursCompetence inventories
http://projektwebbar.lansstyrelsen.se/wood-energy-and-cleantech
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