March 2021 Webinar Task 44

On Thursday, 18.03.2021 the online event "Flexible Bioenergy in Renewable Energy Systems" with Daniela Thrän and other members of Task 44 took place.
Contents were the presentation of two upcoming reports (Technical options and Expectation and implementation of flexible bioenergy in different countries).
More information and the link to listen can be found on the IEA Bioenergy website.

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An IEA Bioenergy Webinar entitled: The contribution of renewable fuels to road transport decarbonisation will be held on Wednesday 17 November 2020 from 16:00 - 17:30. An expert team from IEA Bioenergy TCP and Advanced Motor Fuels TCP, supported by the European Commission, has looked at and assessed the transport sector and its likely development up to 2030 and 2050 for a number of countries, including Germany, Sweden, Finland, USA and Brazil. Dr Franziska Müller-Langer (Head of Biorefineries) also contributed to the results.

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Task 40 has published a paper with the collaboration of DBFZ colleagues Malgorzata Borchers, Alena Hahn and Daniela Thrän: "Deployment of BECCS/U value chains. Technological pathways, policy options and business models".

An introduction to the report was given on 16.06.2020 as a web seminar, which can be viewed at the following link: https://www.ieabioenergy.com/publications/iea-bioenergy-webinar-deployment-of-bioenergy-combined-with-carbon-capture-and-storage-or-utilisation-beccs-u/

New publication with DBFZ participation: Country Report: Implementation of bioenergy in Germany –2021 update

New publication as a summary of all reports and supplemented by further statistics: IEA Bioenergy Countries’ Report – update 2021. Implementation of bioenergy in the IEA Bioenergy member countries.

Task 37 (Publication Biogas)

New publication with DBFZ participation: Renewable Gas – discussion on the state of the industry and its future in a decarbonised world

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Task 40 is leading the Intertask Project "Deployment of Bio-CCS/CCU Value Chains" and has completed a first set of case studies, focusing on the integration of CCS into centralised biomass-based heat and/or power generation:

1. biomass based combined heat and power (CHP) - HOFOR Amager CHP, Copenhagen, Denmark.
2. bioelectricity - Drax Power Station, United Kingdom
3. waste-to-energy - Fortum Oslo Varme (FOV), Oslo, Norway

Twenty-eight scientists (many of them Task 45 members) from around the world with expertise in forestry, climate and energy systems have contributed to an article addressing the conflicting evidence on the climate impacts of forest bioenergy in order to reduce the confusion created by the publication of divergent studies to inform policy development, business decisions and public debate on bioenergy.

"Applying a science-based systems perspective to dispel misconceptions about climate effects of forest bioenergy "

This open-access article recently published in the journal GCB Bioenergy is freely available at https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/gcbb.12844.

A report published in June by IEA Bioenergy Task 39 provides a comprehensive analysis of current and potential technologies for the production of sustainable biomass-based aviation fuels.

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Publication: Report Task 44 led by DBFZ March 2021:  Expectation and implementation of flexible bioenergy in different countries [Info]

December 2020: Task 39 Report: Comparison of Biofuel Life Cycle Analysis Tools: biochemical 2G ethanol production and distribution

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The Bioenergy Newsletter Volume 32 Number 2 published an article about the focus of the working group IEA Bioenergy Task 44 - Flexible Bioenergy and System Integration. Authors are the two leaders of Task 44 Ilkka Hannula and Daniela Thrän.

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New publication: Summary report – The Role of Renewable Transport Fuels in Decarbonizing Road Transport

New publication: Comparison of Biofuel Life Cycle Analysis Tools: biochemical 2G ethanol production and distribution

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A Task 34 brochure was published in August 2020: Direct Thermochemical Liquefaction of biomass - Characteristics, processes and technologies.

Based on current discussions, the IEA Bioenergy has prepared a short document that presents the most important facts about the use of forest biomass for climate protection.

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Since Monday, 20.07.2020 there is a summary and extended report of the workshop "Roles of bioenergy technologies in energy system pathways towards a WB2/SDG world", available which took place on 25.11.2019 in Berlin.

The report and workshop was co-organized by Daniela Thrän. The workshop took place in the context of the Intertask project "The Role of Bioenergy in a WB2/SDG world", in which several tasks of the IEA Bioenergy work together.

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A written version on the topic: "Drivers for Successful and Sustainable Biogas Projects": International Perspectives Report of a symposium held on March 26, 2020 is available from Task 37.​​​​

Change of task leadership at VTT: From January 2021, Daniela Thrän will no longer steer the fortunes of Task 44 with Ilkka Hannula, but together with Elina Mäki.

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The Biofuture Platform, a multi-stakeholder initiative from twenty countries to take action against climate change and support sustainable development goals by promoting international coordination of a sustainable low-carbon bio-economy, announced the introduction of a set of voluntary principles.

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Task 39 has published a Newsletter May 2020, in which Franziska Müller-Langer (DBFZ), Nicolaus Dahmen (KIT) and Gabriel Costa de Paiva (DBFZ) have written an article worth reading: "Biofuels Production and Consumption in Germany: Status, Advances and Challenges".