Bioenergy Europe meets Environment Commissioner Roswall in high level dialogue

Bioenergy Europe’s Secretary-General Jean-Marc Jossart took the floor at a high-level Stakeholder Dialogue with European Commissioner Jessika Roswall to discuss the future of the EU Bioeconomy Strategy.

The meeting brought together key bioeconomy stakeholders to identify strategic opportunities and critical policy needs for a resilient, sustainable, and circular economy.  

A major milestone for carbon removals

This week, Stockholm Exergi announced signing a contract with Microsoft extending the already existing ten-year agreement of 3.33 million tonnes to 5.08 million tonnes of permanent carbon removals from bienergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) at Värtan, Stockholm.

The contract represents the world’s largest agreement for permanent removals on a yearly basis.

ENplus® is now recognised by the European Cooperation for Accreditation (EA)

After a few years of assessment, the world-leading certification scheme for wood pellet quality, ENplus® has received recognition from the European Cooperation for Accreditation (EA). The ENplus® scheme has successfully passed the acceptance verification for accreditation by EA.

As a result of the recognition, all certification bodies listed by ENplus® will now be accredited specifically to the ENplus® standard, rather than to a general pellet ISO standard as they were previously. This once again highlights the scheme’s key role in the pellet market.

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Cutting Heating Bills? Its-possible Thanks to Bioenergy!

The heating season is coming to an end, longer and warmer days make it is easy to forget heating costs.

Nevertheless, recent world events have raised concerns for the European Union. In this context securing local heating solutions that are affordable for households, like biomass local space heaters and district heating is key.

How is bioenergy helping keep the energy bills low for EU citizens? Discover it in the its-possible website.

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Replay the Webinar: Exploring Europe’s Bioenergy Landscape

Last week, Bioenergy Europe’s hosted its yearly Landscape webinar. Our Policy and Market experts shared the latest insights into the role of bioenergy within the broader European energy mix along with an update on key EU policy files impacting the bioenergy sector. 

The event showcased findings from the 2024 Landscape Report, offering a comprehensive look at the sector’s situation and future challenges. Want to know more? Download the Report
 
The data presented underscored that bioenergy remains indispensable to Europe’s renewable future, offering energy security, decarbonisation, and economic benefits.

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Always There: Discover the Campaign!

How can Bioenergy contribute solving Europe’s biggest energy challenges while enhancing energy security, creating local jobs and supporting innovation? During the latest session of the European Bioenergy Future, Bioenergy Europe launched the #AlwaysThere campaign, with the aim to answer these and more questions. 

The website offers an accessible interface with data, success stories and simple definitions, perfect for policy makers and less familiar readers
 

Bioenergy Europe elects its New Board!

During the European Bioenergy Future Conference, representatives from Europe’s bioenergy stakeholders voted for a new Board of Directors for Bioenergy Europe. Thanks to a change in the Association’s statutes that encouraged members to present more minority candidates, this Board is much more gender balanced that in previous years. With 7 women being elected as Board members out of 18 (39%).

Did you miss the General Assembly? You can find the minutes here. 

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