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Daniel Meyerholt
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Studytour and 9th Project Meeting at Starvanger,Norway, September 2011

From 6th-to 8th of September 2011 the Enercoast project partners met in Stavanger for their 9th meeting. The partners reported on their project progress and also the final of the project was discussed.

After the ordinary project meeting there was a study  trip to Lysefjorden by boat. There we visited Lerang Research station (for fish feed), Ewos Innovation, algea-uppwelling systems and Eidane Smoltfarm.

Studytour in Denmark, June 2011

Sun and rain changed as in a typical Danish summer when Randers, Norddjurs og Syddjurs municipalities and Agro Business Park hosted a study tour for Enercoast stakeholders.

Guests from Sweden, Norway and Germany had a diverse trip to some some typical Danish bioenergy supply chains that have proven valuable.

The large farm scale biogas plant at the manor Overgaard was impressive with their experiments on adding straw, maize and different industrial waste into the digester mixed with manure.

Household waste incineration and woodchips are other typical sources for district heating in Denmark.  The market for biomasses is evolving and Verdo is a larger player at the world market of biomasses.

Poplars for energy is a new supply chain in Denmark. The Poplers grow fast with good establishment and poplars supply chain for district heating will be the subject of analysis during the last year of Enercoast.

The Enercoast stakeholders could return to their regions with good examples of Danish competencies and we had very good ‘on-the-spot’ transnational exchange of experiences within the biomass-to-energy field.

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Trollhättan, Sweden, March 9-10, 2011 

Biogas Study Tour - Focus: Bioenergy in Fyrbodal

Bioenergy was in focus when representatives from the four EU partner countries visited Innovatum Technology, the Swedish partner in the enerCOAST project.
Researchers, entrepreneurs and municipal decision-makers from Norway, Germany, Britain and Denmark came to Innovatum Science & Technology Park and toured the Fyrbodal region studying the regional supply chain of bioenergy production, distribution and market sale.
Focus areas during the visit included:
  • Regional bioenergy production, processing and distribution of locally produced biomass / substrate to the energy customer - linking flows from raw materials to final delivery.
  • Regional development and planning initiatives - the cooperation between producers of biomass / substrate, municipalities, waste companies and energy companies and stakeholders in the infrastructure and market.
Thanks to enerCOAST project, there are a number of exciting innovations in biogas emerging in the North Sea region, all designed to streamline supply chains for bioenergy in a sustainable manner. Trollhättan and Fyrbodal are already well ahead in terms of taking advantage of the potential of bioenergy and had several good examples to show to participants.
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Pig farmer G. Gustavsson (Bergs Suggpool AB) together with systems engineer A. Swedenfeldt (Elis Johannson Smides AB) explain to participants about the construction and operation of the biogas plant in Brålanda.
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Participants were introduced to local energy company Trollhättan Energy by Biogas Manager Karin Stenlund. They toured the company's bioenergy production facilities, including a central heating facility (woodmass burning), biogas fuel upgrading facility and a vehicle filling station.
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Participants toured a household waste sorting facility and biogas production plant owned and operated by Ragnsells AB.
Biogas from this facility is transported to the fuel upgrading facility (above) owned by Trollhättan Energy.

Herning, Denmark, November 30- December 1, 2010

The trip was cancelled due to few registrants. However Enercoast partners and stakeholders on Biogas met at the Agromatch event at Agromek.

 

newsflash

The EU currently meets 4% of its energy needs from biomass. If it made full use of its potential, it would more than double biomass use by 2010 (from 69 mtoe in 2003 to about 185 mtoe in 2010) – while complying with good agricultural practice, safeguarding sustainable production of biomass and without significantly affecting domestic food production“ (Biomass Action Plan SEC(2005) 1573). As part of the European Strategic Energy Technology Plan the biomass objectives seek to attain “a diversification of Europe’s energy supply, increasing the share of renewable energy by 5% and reducing reliance on imported energy from 48 to 42% (offering) direct employment for up to 250-300 000 people, mostly in rural areas.