The event is part of the annual "World Sustainable Energy Days" conference, organised by the OÖ Energiesparverband, the energy agency of Upper Austria. Upper Austria is an ideal location for such a conference: more than 25 % of all biomass boilers sold in the EU are manufactured by Upper Austrian companies and pellet heating systems have become a standard solution in the region.

PROGRAMME

Tuesday, 27 February 2018

08.30 - 19.00 Technical Site Visits: Pellets & Wood Chips
A full-day trip by bus with technical site visits on fuels and installations

Wednesday, 28 February 2018

09.00 Pellet policies and markets

• Opening and welcome
  Michael Strugl, Deputy Governor of Upper Austria
  Andreas Rabl, Mayor, City of Wels, Austria
  Gerhard Dell, OÖ Energiesparverband, Austria
  
  
• Bioenergy markets and technology outlook
  Ute Collier, International Energy Agency
  
  
• Policy update: biomass in the EU "Clean Energy Package"
  Nathalie Hemeleers, AEBIOM
  
  
• Mapping the European heating sector
  Jan Steinbach, Fraunhofer ISI, Germany
  
  
• "Nearly zero emission" heating with wood and non-wood pellets
  Ingwald Obernberger, BIOS Bioenergiesysteme, Austria
  
  

Let's make pellets cool again

• Home-grown renewable heat
  Maura Adams, Northern Forest Center, USA
  
  
• Success for the pellet industry
  Manfred Faustmann, Windhager, Austria
  
  
• What customers want
  Sabine Froning, Communication Works, Germany
  
  

Lunch break

14.00 New business for bioenergy

• Thinking outside the box: sector-coupling for bioenergy
  Lukas Kranzl, Technical University Vienna, Austria
  
  
• Digitising sales – illusion or real opportunity?
  Rainer Elste, Steinbeis-Beratungszentrum Vertriebs- und Marketinginstitut, Germany
  
  
• The off-grid house
  Stefan Ortner, ÖkoFEN, Austria
  
  
• Start-ups in the heating and renewable energy sector
  David Wortmann, DWR eco, Germany
  
  

World Pellet Business & Technology Forum

• Update CHP-innovation from Upper Austria
  Werner Emhofer, Fröling
  Anton Hofer, Hargassner
  
  
• A paradigm shift for pellet plants
  Scott Bax, Pinnacle Renewable Energy, Canada
  
  
• How to improve efficiency in pelletising
  Holger Streetz, Bathan AG, Switzerland
  
  
• A new cost-effective additive for pelletisation
  Javier Gil, Cener, Spain
  
  
• Reducing emissions of agricultural pellets
  Robert Mack, Technology and Support Centre (TFZ), Germany
  
  
• Trading 1.2 million tons of bioenergy – logistics and storage
  René Hyde, CM Biomass Partners, Denmark
  
  
• Cost reductions in the pellet supply chain
  Lotte Visser, Utrecht University, The Netherlands
  
  
• Multi channel branding and marketing of wood pellets
  Emil Sopper, BayWa AG Energie, Germany
  
  
• Nitrogen reduction and small-scale biomass combustion
  Christoph Schmidl, Bioenergy2020+, Austria
  
  

19.00 Evening programme

09.30 Pellet Market News Worldwide (in English only)

• Opening
  Gordon Murray on behalf of the European Pellet Council
  
  
• The Global Wood Pellet Industry and Trade Study 2017
  Kay Schaubach, DBFZ, Germany
  
  
• US: what is happening and not happening in the US pellet market
  Stan Elliot, PFI Chairman, Pacific Coast Pellets
  
  
• Finland: unfulfilled dreams of pellet energy
  Hannes Tuohiniitty, The Bioenergy Association of Finland
  
  
• Germany: pellets in times of political changes
  Martin Bentele, DEPV
  
  
• Austria: update on the Austrian pellet market
  Christian Rakos, proPellets Austria
  
  
• UK: biomass suppliers list
  Helen Bentley-Fox, Woodsure
  
  
• Hungary: raw material quality as a crucial factor
  Zsolt Janos Viharos, Hungarian Academy of Sciences
  
  
• Spain: certification of mediterranean solid biofuels
  Pablo Rodero Masdemont, AVEBIOM
  
  
• Chile: pellet production and consumption
  Felipe Salazar, Promasa
  
  
• India: trends in the solid biofuel industry
  Suhas Patel, Saurashtra Agro Briquettes
  
  

Chairperson: Gordon Murray, Wood Pellet Association of Canada

13.00 End of the session

09.30 Control strategies for the integration of biomass in future energy systems (in English only)

• Welcome and introduction
  Markus Gölles, Bioenergy 2020+, Austria
  

Control strategies for biomass heating appliances

• Novel control methods for existing heating appliances
  Daniel Büchner, DBFZ, Germany
  
  
• Meeting future requirements for biomass combustion systems with modern control strategies
  Christopher Zemann, Bioenergy 2020+, Austria

Integration concepts for biomass conversion appliances

• Control concepts for increasing benefits of small CHP systems
  Christian Schraube, EIFER, Germany
  
  
• Modular energy management of future cross-sectoral energy systems
  Daniel Muschick, Bioenergy 2020+, Austria
  
  

Chairperson: Markus Gölles, Bioenergy 2020+, Austria

This session is organised in cooperation with DBFZ and EIFER.

12.30 End of the session

Please also see the related events:

• Young Biomass Researchers
• Technical Site Visits