PROGRAMME
Tuesday, 25 February 2014
08.30 - 18.00: Site-visit "Pellets & Wood Chips"
A full-day trip by bus including technical site-visits on the production of fuels & equipment and innovative applications for heating and electricity production
Wednesday, 26 February 2014
09.00 Opening & welcome
- Rudi Anschober, Regional Minister for Energy, Upper Austria
- Update on EU biomass policies
Giulio Volpi, European Commission, DG Energy
- What’s next for bioenergy?
Anselm Eisentraut, International Energy Agency
- Pellet market development – outlook to 2025
Silvio Mergner, Pöyry Management Consulting, Germany
- Advancing biomass heating through cooperation
Christiane Egger, OÖ Energiesparverband/Ökoenergie-Cluster, Austria
11.30 Certification schemes & sustainability
- Forest certification to ensure sustainability in the bioenergy sector
Clemens Kraus, PEFC Austria, Austria
- ENplus update: quality certification across the supply chain
Christian Rakos, European Pellet Council
- Efficiency criteria for pellet heating systems
Christoph Schmidl, bioenergy 2020+, Austria
12.30 Lunch break
14.00 Financing and operation models
- Heat supply solutions for more than 100 buildings in Scotland
Bruno Berardelli, Highland Wood Energy, UK
- Biomass heat contracting – successful projects
Robert Stoffers, juwi Energielösungen, Germany
- Transforming the market and creating financing opportunities
Harry (Dutch) Dresser, Maine Energy Systems, USA
16.00 World Pellet Business & Technology Forum
- European Ecodesign Directive: requirements for solid fuel boilers
Claudia Canevari, European Commission, DG Energy
- Vermont as a North American leader in wood heating
Adam Sherman, Biomass Energy Resource Center (BERC), USA
- Optimising small-scale pellet production plants
Johannes Waselmayr, Albert Knoblinger GmbH & Co KG, Austria
- Innovative pellet production on three continents
José Ricardo Castro, Prodesa, Europe
- Pellet logistics from Russia to Europe
Alexander Makhonko, Ust-Luga Port, Russia
- Industrial pellet boilers
Andreas Roskam, KCO GmbH, Austria
Pellet Networking Platform
- A platform for developing new co-operations among pellet actors across the value chain (in English only)
19.00 End of the conference day
19.30 Evening programme
Thursday, 27 February 2014
08.20 - 10.00 Pellet B2B-Meetings
- Finding new business partners in bilateral meetings (pre-registration for meetings is required, see "B2B-Meetings")
09.45 Pellet Market News Worldwide
Updates and outlook on different European and global pellet markets (in English only)
- Overview of pellet supply and demand
Arnold Dale, EIPS/Ekman & Co AB, Sweden
- Italy: striving for market stability
Annalisa Paniz, AIEL
- Germany: qualification programme for installers
Martin Bentele, DEPV
- UK: Update on the renewable heat incentive
Edward Billington, UK Pellet Council/Billington Biofuels
- Russia: the Russian state plan
Olga Rakitova, The Bioenergy International
- US: market and policy trends
David Dungate, BTEC
- Australia: Tasmania's bioenergy opportunities
Hon Adriana Taylor MLC, Parliament of Tasmania
- Ukraine: pellet supply and domestic demand
Tetiana Ignatenko, Ukrainian Pellet Union
12.30 End of the session
09.00 High efficiency – low emissions
Session co-organised with Bios Bioenergiesysteme (in English only)
09.00 Welcome
- Keynotes and introduction to the EU project "UltraLowDust" (FP7)
Ingwald Obernberger, Bios Bioenergiesysteme, Austria
- State-of-the-art of small-scale biomass combustion
Thomas Brunner, Graz University of Technology, Austria
- Emission limits, measurement methods & factors influencing emissions
Hans Hartmann, Technologie- und Förderzentrum, Germany
Technologies and results achieved by the EU project "UltraLowDust"
- New ultra-low emission wood pellet and wood chip boiler technology
Jürgen Brandt, Windhager, Austria
Thomas Brunner, Graz University of Technology, Austria
- New low emission logwood stove
Marie-Laure Rabot-Querci, Supra, France
Christian Schraube, EIFER, Germany
- New rooftop small-scale electrostatic precipitator (ESP) technology
Peter Launsky, Ruftec AG, Germany
Heike Oehler, Technologie- und Förderzentrum, Germany
- Contribution of ultra-low emission technologies to pollutant reductions in the EU & policies for market transformation
Thomas Götz, Wuppertal Institute, Germany
- Discussion & closing remarks
Ingwald Obernberger, Bios Bioenergiesysteme, Austria
13.00 End of the European Pellet Conference
Please also see the related conferences:
Pellets - a sustainable fuel!
Pellets are a clean, CO2 neutral and convenient fuel with growing market shares worldwide. The European Pellet Conference 2014 in Wels/Austria will provide in-depth information on pellet innovation, market and policy trends. It will offer an exciting platform to discuss co-operation projects.
With more than 600 participants every year, the European Pellet Conferences held in Wels is the largest annual pellet event in the world.
The European Pellet Conference 2014 will offer:
- the meeting place for the global pellet community
- the latest technology trends
- updates on policy, legislation and standardisation
- news from research and innovation
- an outlook on the developments on European and global markets
- inspirational case studies and examples
- new business opportunities and exchange of experience among experts
- a major trade show, the "Energiesparmesse", on sustainable energy with more than 100 pellet-related exhibitors
Programme
The European Pellet Conference 2014 offeres a range of interesting sessions and events:
- Plenary sessions
presentations on policies, markets, innovation, sustainability, supply etc. - World Pellet Business & Technology Forum
market place for product and service innovation, business models and finance - Pellet B2B-Meetings
finding new business partners in bilateral meetings - Pellet Networking Platform
a platform for starting new co-operations among pellet actors across the value chain - Pellet News Worldwide
updates and outlook on different European and global pellet markets - Technical site-visit
a one-day trip with visits on wood pellets and wood chips (fuel, equipment, exemplary installations) - more information - WSED next Biomass
a conference for young researchers on biomass - more information - Energiesparmesse - the "pellet trade show"
leading trade show on renewable energy and energy efficiency with annually 100,000 visitors, more than 100 pellet-related exhibitors - more information
