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This document discusses biomass as a source of electricity in the European Union. It notes that biomass currently accounts for 7.4% of electricity production on average across EU members. The document addresses some challenges with biomass electricity including its relatively low energy density compared to other renewable sources as well as potential competition with food production and biodiversity for land use. It calls for sustainability criteria to guide the industry's growth and challenges relying on potentially inefficient biomass technologies.

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“land used to produce food may compete with land use for energy and both may compete with land which supports biodiversity or provides ecosystem services such as absorbing carbon from the atmosphere” ‘Trade-offs’ A resource-efficient Europe – Flagship initiative under the Europe 2020 Strategy http://ec.europa.eu/resource-efficient-europe/pdf/resource_efficient_europe_en.pdf

“The Commission will propose that….authorisation for new thermal power generation should be conditional on it being combined with systems allowing the heat to be used – Combined Heat and Power” Communication on the Energy Efficiency Plan 2011 http://ec.europa.eu/energy/efficiency/action_plan/action_plan_en.htm

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1. fit? Where does biomass

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6. timely, targeted, relevant and reliable information

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9. http://bit.ly/9n7qjf

10. EU biomass to electricity

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22. 2W/m2 15W/m2 ? 11W/m2 www.withoutthehotair.com

23. Incident solar energy (Paris) = 121W/m2 Conversion sunlight to plant matter = 0.5% efficient Energy density = 0.6W/m2 Conversion plant matter to electricity = 30% efficient Final energy density = 0.18W/m2 Land use issue

24. “land used to produce food may compete with land use for energy and both may compete with land which supports biodiversity or provides ecosystem services such as absorbing carbon from the atmosphere” ‘Trade-offs’ A resource-efficient Europe – Flagship initiative under the Europe 2020 Strategy http://ec.europa.eu/resource-efficient-europe/pdf/resource_efficient_europe_en.pdf

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26. “The Commission will propose that….authorisation for new thermal power generation should be conditional on it being combined with systems allowing the heat to be used – Combined Heat and Power” Communication on the Energy Efficiency Plan 2011 http://ec.europa.eu/energy/efficiency/action_plan/action_plan_en.htm

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28. Embrace sustainability criteria Challenge low-efficiency Projected growth is not certain

29. fit? Where does biomass

30. Biomass to electricity Vienna 13-14th April 2011 David Owain Clubb Renewable energy project manager david.clubb@eea.europa.eu Presentation available at: http://slidesha.re/hh96hg

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