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"Strategic Meeting of Stakeholders in the Global Biomass Supply & PowerGen"

CMT's 3rd Biomass Trade & Power gathers in Brussels on 23th - 24th February at the Crowne Plaza - Le Palace. The conference focuses on drivers of biomass power generation markets, from economics to sustainability, in the EU and Asia. The recent Bioenergy Review by the Committee on Climate Change (CCC) reported that bioenergy plays a "crucial role" in meeting the UK's carbon targets and projected that bioenergy can contribute around 10% of UK's primary energy. With Biomass and Wind energy taking lead as the most promising renewable energy resources in Poland, the country is making shift from traditional coal and fossil fuels resources to achieve its target of 14% by 2020.

Aside from the EU, Asia is also developing its biomass sector both in demand and supply. Korea is implementing its Renewable Portfolio Standard (RPS) that calls for 2% of total energy generation to be renewable in 2012, and 10% by 2022. India, Japan and China have also announced biomass power projects and added capacity.

The biomass commodity market continues to evolve, on standardization and sustainability issues for industrial wood pellets. At the same time, agricultural residues such as straws and palm biomass (e.g. PKS) are also finding supply off-take in Europe and Asia, especially with favourable shipping freight. On pretreatment technologies, much attention is now focused on the value chain of Torrefaction as the industry sought for details on economics and commercialisation.

Be part of 3rd Biomass Trade & Power and get involved with the development of a cost effective biomass supply chain and strengthening of biomass as a sustainable renewable energy source. Do not miss the opportunity to network with key stakeholders from more than 30 countries of the global biomass power generation markets.

Multiple benefits from the following discussions:

• Assess the Upward Trends of Biomass Power Generation in UK, Poland, Italy, Korea, India, etc
• Progress on the Wood Pellets Buyers' Initiative on Contractual Requirements for Industrial Wood Pellets
• Focus on Biomass fuelled CHP - An Emerging Energy Efficient Solution?
• Development of the Biomass Commodity Market, Trade flow, Pricing & Standardization
• Purusit of the Torrefied Pellets Value Chain - Where is it in the Commercialisation roadmap?
• Insights on Supply Markets - Africa, Central Europe, Russia, US& Asia
• Maximising Potential from Agricultural Residues (e.g. Straws, Palm Biomass, PKS)
• Perspectives from various roles - traders, marketers and buyers
• Meet and network with top panel of speakers and industry players to exchange latest updates!

The pre-conference site visit takes participants of the 3rd Biomass Trade & Power to an exclusive guided tour and presentation of Electrabel's Rodenhuize Power Station, a 180 MW biomass fuelled plant located in Ghent. Powering 320,000 homes, this plant, originally developed as a coal-fired power plant, is now converted into a 100% biomass fuelled unit and operational in September 2011.

Register with your team today for the conference and site visit. Contact Hafizah at hafizah@cmtsp.com.sg for more information.

You will network with:
- Biomass/Pellets Producers, Traders & Importers
- Biofuels Producers Importers
- Utilities, Power, Distributed Power
- Agriculture/Forestry/Plantation Companies
- Commodity Brokers & Analysts
- Wood Processing Companies
- Shipping & Brokers (Dry Bulk, Biomass/Pellets)
- Government/Regulators - Pulp & Paper
- Pelleting Equipment/Technologies
- Biomass Pretreatment Technologies
- Enzymes/Catalysts Providers
- Trade/Project Financing Institutions
- Specification & Benchmarking
- Biomass/Bio-Power Associations
- Emission/CDM Traders - Environmental Engineers

Rodenhuize Power Station, a 180MW biomass fuelled plant, located in Ghent, Belgium.

Rodenhuize 4 was originally developed as a coal-fired power plant. The plant was modified in 2005 and 2008 to enable generation of electricity from both coal and biomass. The plant was converted from a coal-fired unit called Rodenhuize 4 into a 100% biomass unit.

Opened in September 2011, the converted unit can generate enough electricity to power 320,000 homes. An investment of €125m was made into the project. The plant will reduce about 1.2 million tons (mt) of carbon dioxide emissions annually.