BioEnergy Farm

Project name

BioEnergy Farm

Project duration

June 2010 – March 2013

Project coordinator

Cornelissen Consulting Services B.V., Netherlands

Partners

University of Turin, Italy

National Energy Conservation Agency, Poland

University of Stuttgart, Germany

Estonian University of Life Sciences, Estonia

German Society for sustainable Biogas and Bioenergy Utilisation, Germany

Confederation Italian Farmers, Italy

ZET Solutions, Netherlands

Biogas-E, Belgium

Stimuland, Netherlands

Estonian Federation of Farmers, Estonia

Objectives

The BioEnergy Farm is an international project realized in the framework of Intelligent Energy – Europe programme. It is directed mainly towards farmers, foresters, and landowners, and concerned with increasing the use and production of bio energy and bio fuels in agriculture through providing free access to:

• reliable information on bio energy and bio fuels
• calculation tools necessary to evaluate profitability of bio energy and bio fuels for each individual case
• expert advice and support

The European Bio Energy Platform is a place where you can find all of the above, for free, in seven languages: English, Italian, German, Dutch, Polish, Estonian, and French.

What is more, BioEnergy Farm also organizes workshops for farmers to present them the possibilities of bio energy in agriculture, familiarize them with the Online BioEnergy Scan and teach how to interpret the results. BioEnergy Farm can also take farmers on excursions, to show them how projects dealing with biogas, biomass combustion, and energy crops are realized. The experts who support farmers in their further steps, having completed the Online BioEnergy Scan with a positive result, are trained to use more advanced calculation tools to propose specific solutions after collecting information about individual farms. They can also assist in preparing a business plan for a bio energy project implementation.

The aim of the project is to disseminate well structured and unbiased information about the feasibility of bio energy and bio fuels in agricultural environment.

Expected results

-         European Bio Energy Platform

-         Online Bio Energy Scan

-         Online EnergyFarm tool

-         Online Short Rotation Forestry tool

-         Online Forestry4Energy tool

-         A training programme for experts on how to implement bio energy on the farm

-         52 experts trained to advise the farmers

-         400 bio energy scans showing the possibilities of bio energy on the farm

-         Implementation assistance leading to 80 business plans

-         Offline Anaerobic Digestion Profit Calculator

-         Offline Wood Combustion Profit Calculator

-         A guide on the implementation of bio energy options on farms

-         12 workshops, 18 visits to best practice sites and 30 articles

Project website

www.bioenergyfarm.eu

Coordinator from NAPE’s side