IEE Pellcert Project: Standardizing industrial wood pellet trading in Europe

Wood pellets are new form of upgraded biomass characterised by high energy density, low production cost and low process energy requirements. They are an excellent fuel both for residential and service heating and for producing CHP, DH and green electricity. The current European pellet market of approx. 10 million tons is expected to grow to up to 100 million tons by 2020.

The key objective of the project European Pellet Quality Certification is to create and implement an ambitious and uniform certification system for pellets in Europe, called “ENplus”, which will be used both by the heat, CHP  and the power markets, small and large scale, for intra European trade but also for imports. In addition, sustainability criteria will be designed to be part of ENplus or come on top and create a “ENplus GREEN” scheme.

The project is proposed by a unique consortium of 10 pellets associations (covering AT, BE, DE, ES, FI, FR, HU, IT, PT, SE), ensuring a direct relationship with pellets market players. LABORELEC will represent the interest of the power sector, and coordinate activities with members of EURELECTRIC and other industrial users in the medium-large scale heat sector and CHP. The European Biomass Association AEBIOM will lead the project.

Introduced along with biofuels in the RES Directive, sustainability criteria are heavily debated for the time being, but only private initiatives have really started (LABORELEC/GDF Suez, Green Gold Label by Essent/RWE). Power companies, importing large pellets quantities, are favourable to a uniform sustainability scheme for fair competition reasons and level playing field. The scheme that will include sustainability criteria (ENplus or ENplus GREEN) will be a scheme endorsed by market actors, after consultation with stakeholders from scientific arenas, certification bodies, environmental NGOs, and relevant EC officials, that will be pragmatic, feasible, ambitious but realistic.

European Pellet Quality Certification (PELLCERT)

IEE Pellcert project

15/11/2011 Stakeholder meeting IEE Pellcert project

• FeedbackWorkshop15112011.pdf
• PELLCERT_W1_Industrial_WP_15112011_-_List_Attendees.pdf
• Summary_Technical_Specs-Pellcert_W1.pdf
• SummaryQuestionnaire-Competition-PellcertW1.pdf
• SummaryQuestionnaire-CrossCompliance-PellcertW1.pdf
• SummaryQuestionnaire-Forestry-PellcertW1.pdf
• SummaryQuestionnaire-GHG-PellcertW1.pdf
• SummaryQuestionnaire-Plantations-PellcertW1.pdf
• SummaryQuestionnaire-Residues-PellcertW1.pdf

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