“In 2014, 16% of Europe’s energy supply came from renewable energy, with bioenergy contributing more than 60% of this share” (Gustav Melin, President European Biomass Association)
BLTC stands for Biomass Logistic and Trade Centres, which are regional hubs linking wood supply from forest owners, saw mills and other wood producers with demand from bulk and small buyers.
BioRES supported setting-up such BLTCs in Bulgaria, Croatia and Serbia. Starting point are web-based marketing and sales platform with limited physical infrastructure. This can be successively extended into a BLTC with its own production, storage and logistics facilities when the local market reaches critical volumes allowing for the amortization of investments.
Biomass Logistic and Trade Centres (BLTCs) are local or regional centres with optimised logistics and trading organization, where different woody bioenergy products (or heat) are marketed at standardised quality focusing on the domestic market uptake.
It’s an innovative business model competitively operating as an intermediator to organise local woody bioenergy value chains between local biomass suppliers and customers of different scale from private households up to deliveries to heat and power plants.
In Slovenia, Austria, Germany and Finland BLTCs of different shape with own production, storage and logistic facilities are competitively operating. BioRES aims to setting up at least 6 – 8 new BLTCs in distributed over at least 2 of the 3 countries in Croatia, Serbia and Bulgaria during the project.
Presentation and basic facts about BioRES
Animation Videos
Biomass Logistic and Trade Centres – pioneers for local market development of woody bioenergy - ©BioRES
More heat with less wood - ©UNECE
The Power of Wood
Heating with wood adds value to the region
Energy from the Forest – Benefits for the Local Economy
In Finland local bioenergy operators have combined forces in the harvesting and utilization of energy wood. Eno Energy Cooperative manages the entire production chain from harvesting to wood chipping, transportation, and heating plant operations which has resulted in many benefits for the local economy.
Credible Assurance - ©ISEAL Alliance
Effective Chain-of-Custody and Traceability - ©ISEAL Alliance
What is a Sustainability Standard? - ©ISEAL Alliance
Demonstrating Impacts of Sustainability Standards - ©ISEAL Alliance