"Rise of the new Bio-Commodity for Clean Power Generation"

Pushing forward with Biomass Commodity Market & Bio Power Value Chain

Global demand for Biomass (Agricultural and Forestry Residues, Energy Crops and Wood Pellets) is rapidly growing and especially in Europe, where EU 2020's target for renewable energy (20% in gross energy consumption), is a major driver for this growth. Various European countries' government have released grants and incentive programs to step up the usage of biomass in power generation, such as the United Kingdom and Scotland earlier in November 2009.

This growth drives the need for biomass to be traded as a real "commodity". To make this happen, issues on "commodization" have to be addressed with the clear standards on biomass certification, logistics, price benchmarking on the broad array of biomass products. Commercialising pretreatment technologies, such as Torrefaction, Pyrolysis, etc, will provide solutions to standardization of specification. Bio-char, touted as a alternative for carbon sequestration, is also gaining global interest in the US, Australia and Europe, for soil enhancement and replacement for coal in power plants.

Biomass has widely been used in power generation and for heating purposes. Combustion and Co-firing are the most widespread conversion technologies for electricity and heat generation, also in district heating. In large-scale commercial plants, security in supply of biomass, as well as transportation and handling, becomes critical for sustainable operation and even financing.

Sustainability and reliability in the market dynamics of biomass demand/supply is critical for the development of stable global biomass trading market activities. Supported by Port of Rotterdam and IEA Bioenergy Task 40, CMT presents a industry-stakeholders' lineup at the Biomass Trade & Power Conference. The conference aims to analyze EU and other regions' developments in bioenergy and tackle issues the establishment a biomass trading, realizing a real commodity market. This is a MUST- HAVE for long term security of the bioenergy sector.

Hot issues discussed at CMT's Biomass Trade & Power:

• EU's sustainability requirement for bioenergy
• Post Cophenhagen & its implication for bioenergy
• Assess the global supply outlook of biomass from China, Australia, Baltic Region, Canada & etc
• Evaluate EU's demand for power & heat production
• Establish a reliable & economical certification scheme for biomass/bioenergy
• Commercialization & availability of pretreatment technologies
• Analyse Biochar's commercialization roadmap
• Tackles issues on transportation & shipping/freight market outlook
• Rationalise pricing standards for agri-steam waste & pellets
• Stakeholders' perspectives producers, importers trade & power companies on commodization of biomass
• Direct networking opportunities, strike immediate contracts with buyers, sellers and power companies

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