Svebio will lead a project to facilitate investments in new Swedish biorefineries
Type of post: NEWS IN BRIEF.
And we continue to catch up with interesting news of the last month. The
Nordic Region is making great efforts to decarbonize its economy and Sweden is
one of the key players. In that country, the use of biofuels has doubled in
just three years (in 2017, the share of biofuels in transportation was over 20%).
However, 85% of those biofuels used are imported. In this context, the Swedish Bioenergy Association (Svebio) has
been granted 1.4 million SEK (approximately, 136,000 €) in funding from
Sweden’s Innovation Agency (Vinnova) to develop proposals for facilitating
investments in new Swedish biorefineries and to increase the domestic
production of biofuels. The project ends in February 2020.
See press release: “Svebio
vill förbättra villkoren för nya bioraffinaderier”, 12/12/2018.
Figure 1. Logo of Svebio
The project will lead to concrete instruments to realize the potential of
forest residues, primarily, for biofuels. The partners will identify the risks
facing investors in Swedish biorefineries and suggest how these risks can be
managed and minimized.
Svebio is the project coordinator together with the
biofuel companies Energifabriken
and Sekab, the forest companies Holmen and Södra Skogsägarna, the project developers
PyroCell and Porcupine, technology developer RenFuel as well as the Swedish
Association for Road Transport Companies (Sveriges Åkeriföretag). Svebio will
use its BioDriv network with approximately 60 companies and organizations with
130 people to promote biofuels covering all parts of the value chain from raw
materials to manufacturers and suppliers to users.