Bioenergy 2 Flashcards
Is North America going to have good production in the future?
pellet production can sustainably expand by at least 20 million tonnes per year if the pulp and paper industry remains on the current declining trajectory.
Is brazil going to have a good production?
Brazil has a tremendous potential to produce large quantities of wood pellets.
According to IBGE (Brazilian Institute of Geography and statistics), there is great potential for the use of forest residues from the Brazilian forest sector (extraction and silviculture) to produce pellets.
In 2019, the generation of waste from forest chain for Brazil was equivalent to 85.574.464,76 m³.
How is russia expected to do?
Russia is on track to double pellet production to 5.5 million tons within 5 years.
More wood residues remain unused than are pelletized.
The wood industry is growing, and more and more residues need to be marketed. 80 new pellet plants have been announced; 25 are currently under construction.
How many russian pellets get exported?
85pc
What are the challenges for exporting pellets?
The main challenges are related to insufficient railway and port capacity.
Railway tariffs for wood pellets have risen by 40% in 2021.
SBP proposes very challenging changes to its requirements for producers working in conformity with FSC (all Russian and Belarus SBP producers).
What are the quality’s of the pellets like?
86 pellet plants are ENplus and/or SBP certified in Russia.
Practically all pellets originate from high-quality wood residues.
The prospects are excellent for further growth of ENplus and the introduction of SURE certification.
Where is pellet consumption concentrated in Asia?
South Africa and Japan
the REC (Renewable Energy Certified) price dropped in South Korea, which directly impacted the use and hence the import of pellets.
Contrary to South Korea, Japan owns a much more stable support scheme, allowing a solid growth of industrial pellet usage (sourced from Southeast Asia and Canada).
Based on the current growth, Japan could reach 10 million tonnes of industrial pellet usage by 2030.
What’s the one issue with EU supply and demand
production has ceased to grow faster than the consumption since 2016 (
What bad situations did EU pellet production face since 2017?
since flooding in the Baltic States and forest fires in Portugal, the European pellet production has not faced any critical issue in 2019 nor in 2020, allowing a sustainable growth of the industry.
What’s the pellet production like in Western Europe at the moment?
A wave of investments in new pellet production plants is taking place in Austria, Germany and France. In Austria, 8 plants with a combined capacity of 350,000 tonnes are being completed.
Expects an increase of German pellet production capacity within the next two years of 800.000 tonnes.
ProPellets France is expecting around 1 million tons of additional pellet production capacity within the next 3-4 years.
What is pellet demand like in Western Europe?
In Austria, pellet boiler sales will reach 12.000 and could increase further to up to 20.000 units a year, creating an additional demand of 100.000 tonnes per year.
In Germany, 60.000 boilers and 30.000 stoves will be installed, twice as much as last year and numbers could increase further creating an increase of annual demand beyond 500.000 tonnes.
In France, pellet stove sales will reach 190.000 units and boiler sales are expected to reach 25.000 units adding at least 300.000 tonnes of demand in 2021.
Where do pellets get produced in Western Europe?
Austria, Belgium, Estonia, France, Germany, Latvia, Poland, Portugal, Russia, Czech Republic, Finland, Greece, Italy, Spain, Croatia, Serbia
What was the 2020 increase in pellet production stimulated by?
high demand from the public sector where many new pellet heating appliances have replaced old coal and oil heating appliances.
In 2020, the import of wood pellets increased by 73% compared to 2019, reaching 40.000 tonnes.
Export of wood pellets decreased in 2020 by 12.4%, reaching 78.000 tonnes.
what’s used in the raw materials?
Primary feedstock = Roundwood and harvesting residues (i.e. wood extracted for pellet production.)
Secondary feedstock = any by-products from wood industry e.g. sawdust, shavings, etc.
Tertiary feedstock = any used wood (reclaimed wood, waste wood)
How do we know European pellet production grew by 1,1 million tonnes while consumption increased by 1,3 million tonnes.
This is reflected in the responses of pellet producers about their main preoccupations, whose concerns about ‘demand’ decreased while ‘availability and prices of raw materials’ registered a rise.
