Date:

28 February - 1 March 2007

Venue:

Stadthalle Wels, A-4600 Wels, Upper Austria/Austria

Conference fee:

150 Euro (plus 10% VAT)

Conference language:

English, German, French, Italian, Spanish

Organisation and conference office:

O.Ö. Energiesparverband
Landstraße 45, 4020 Linz, Austria
Tel. +43/732/7720-14386
Fax +43/732/7720-14383
officeesv.orat

9.00

Opening & welcome 
Rudi Anschober, Regional Minister for Energy, Austria

9.20

Challenges & opportunities in a rapidly growing market
Christiane Egger, Deputy Manager, O.Ö. Energiesparverband, Austria

9.40

Global trade with biomass?
Tomas Kåberger, Chairman, SVEBIO, Sweden

10.00

The perspectives of the European heating market
Hana Herynkova, BRG Consult, UK

10.20

The European Biomass Action Plan
Emese Kottasz, Directorate General for Energy and Transport, European Commission

10.40

Discussion/Coffee break

Entrepreneurs Round-table: The future of pellets markets & technologies

11.20

Herbert Ortner, Managing Director, ÖkoFEN, Austria
John Swaan, Executive Director, Wood Pellet Association of Canada
Lars Romney, Head of Business Development, Statoil Pellets AB, Sweden
Markus Mann, Managing Director, Westerwälder Holzpellets GmbH, Germany
Francisco Puente-Salve, Project Manager, ESCAN, Spain
Aavo Isak, Managing Director, AS SB Keskütteseadmed, Estonia
Per Ottosen, Senior Consultant, Energi E2, Denmark
Claus-Georg Nette, Director, Marquard & Bahls AG, Germany
Chairperson: Johannes Jetschgo, ORF

13.00

Discussion/Lunch Break

Heating markets around the globe

14.30

Pellet "pains", a US perspective on international cooperation
Stan Elliot, Bear Mountain Forest Products, USA

14.50

Domestic heating in Japan
Shuichi Miura, Tohoku University of Art and Design, Japan

15.10

Biomass resources in and from Brasil
José Roberto Moreira, CENBIO, Brasil

15.30

Challenges in the expanding French market
Frédéric Douard, ITEBE, France

15.50

Wood energy in Europe and North America: a new estimate of volumes and flows
Florian Steierer, UNECE Trade Development and Timber Division, Switzerland

16.10

Discussion / Coffee break

Production & technology

16.50

Fine dust emissions: recent research results
Ingwald Obernberger, BIOS Bioenergiesysteme GmbH, Austria

17.10

The quality of pellets made from alternative biomass
Klaus Hjuler, FORCE Technology, Denmark 

17.30

A field test of combusting pellets from energy crops
Gottfried Eder, Austrian Bioenergy Center GmbH, Austria

17.50

From untreated wood to pellets
Gregor Rinke, Seeger Engineering, Germany

18.10

Examples for pellet production plants and technologies
Markus Kratzer, Bühler AG, Switzerland

18.30

End

19.30

Evening Programm

Presentation of innovative pellets technologies from Austria (in English only)

10.00

Günther Huemer, Managing Director, Guntamatic Heiztechnik GmbH
Werner Emhofer, Marketing Manager, Fröling GmbH
Gerhard Selinger, Director Business Unit Central Heating Systems, Rika GmbH & Co KG
Bernhard Holzer, Export Manager, Windhager Zentralheizungen GmbH
Herbert Ortner, Managing Director, ÖkoFEN GmbH

12.00

End

Pellets-Workshop "Current developments on European pellets markets"
(in English only)

14.00

Enough biomass to supply Austrian households with heat, power and fuel on pellet basis to 100% and renewable
August Raggam, Austria

Pellet market development in Austria & Italy
Christian Rakos, ProPellets Austria

Pellet market development in Germany
Cornelis Hemmer, DEPV, Germany

Discussion / Coffee break

Pellet market development in Spain
Francisco Puente-Salve, ESCAN, Spain

Pellet market development in Belgium
Didier Marchal, Walloon Agricultural Research Centre (CRA-W), Belgium

Pellet market development in Sweden
Johan Vinterbäck, SVEBIO, Sweden

Pellet market development in Denmark
Jonas Dahl, FORCE Technology, Denmark

Pellet market development in Canada
John Swaan, Wood Pellet Association of Canada

17.30

Discussion / End