• Biomass for power – the natural evolution
  • The economic case
    • Gas/coal biomass break-even
    • Biomass vs other renewable dispatchable power alternatives
  • REDIII implications
    • What has changed from REDII to REDIII
    • Certification needed
  • Current use cases and future application
    • Industrial Coal to Biomass conversion
    • Grid scale coal conversion
    • BECCS and Biorefining integration
• Biomass sustainability assurance systems in the context of EU
  • Overview of European sustainability requirement
  • Systems to provide assurance of compliance
  • Main challenges and possible solutions
  • EU deforestation regulations, links to biomass
• Biomass in the EU: a Wealth for Our Continent, to be Smartly Used
  • Biomass resources are more abundant and usable than some would like us to believe, especially in Europe, but they are not unlimited
  • Demand increases, as we aim for 2050 Net Zero Emission, for the 4Fs (Food, Feed, Fuel and Fiber), as before the Industrial Revolution: Bioeconomy grows, IEA foresees bioenergy supplying 20 % of primary energy and 1/3 of bioenergy to be used to produce heat & power in its 2050 Net Zero Emission scenario
  • Biomass is as diverse as EU Member States, calling for local solutions.
  • Climate regulations, not market, should guide the merit order for biomass
    usage, putting sustainability first and respecting companion regulations, like water management, biodiversity and nature conservation
    • Hierarchy of usage should put food and feed first
    • And be local, respecting both industrial & social context and biomass availability,
    • Energy for all must be sustainable, affordable and secure,
    • Sectors with few or no renewable alternatives to fossil should be prioritized.

Jens Price Wolf, General Manager, Europe, ENVIVA

Jens Price Wolf is General Manager for Enviva Europe, leading the company’s regulatory engagement, customer fulfillment and market development activities across Europe. Jens brings more than 20 years’ experience in the energy sector and the full value chain of biomass for power and heat. He started his career as a consultant with ICF Consulting and later McKinsey & Company, where he advised businesses on operations and strategy. As a Director of Asset Management and Development for DONG Energy (now Orsted) he was responsible for converting four Danish CHP plants. Prior to joining Enviva, he was Commercial Director at Drax, responsible for trading, biomass sourcing, development and logistics.

Jens holds a master’s degree in Economics from the University of Copenhagen.

He is a Danish national but lives in Yorkshire in the UK.

Ondrej Tarabus, Biomass Program Manager, Preferred by Nature

Ondřej Tarabus works as Climate Programme Manager at Preferred by Nature. He is experienced with different forest sustainability certification schemes such as FSC or PEFC as an auditor in number of countries. He was involved from the very beginning in the ISCC certification, dealing with the sustainability of biofuels. Ondřej has participated in several development projects in forestry, carbon and biomass fields in Latin America and Europe.

At the moment he is responsible for sustainable biomass certifications, following legal and additional requirements in number of European countries (including SBP, SURE and other schemes). He is also engaged in different projects within biomaterials sustainability field such as Risk Assessments, development of sourcing policies or evaluation of different verification systems.

Philippe Marchand, Independent Biofuel Expert (ex-Total)

Philippe Marchand retired in 2019, latest position as senior adviser in the Biofuels department of the Refining & Chemical division of TOTAL, the French Oil Major, in charge of the development of alternative sustainable aviation and marine fuels and of the promotion of the bioeconomy ; he is a graduate from Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées (Paris, France) and from Ecole Polytechnique de Montréal (Canada) ; he joined TOTAL in 1979 and has held various positions in the Refining Division, in process engineering and optimization, in France and in Africa, in supply, finance and economics management in Normandy Refinery (France), in supply and refining general management in the UK, in overall coordination of refining activities in the Americas, in Corporate Planning, coordinating the biofuels strategy for the TOTAL Group ; in his previous position, he led the biofuels development activities in the Renewable Energy Division.