BioEnerGIS
Responsible:
Research
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Start date: 2009-09-01
Length: 26 months
Project abstract
BioEnerGIS Project intends to provide instruments helping decision makers to plan, on a regional scale, the sustainable energy exploitation of biomass. A GIS-based Decision Support System, named BIOPOLE, has been developed to locate the most suitable sites - in terms of energy, environmental, social and economic sustainability - for biomass plants installations. Four regions, representing different environmental and economic zones, have been investigated:
BioEnerGIS intends to:
The project is closed.
- Lombardy (Italy)
- Northern Ireland (UK)
- Slovenia
- Wallonia (Belgium)
BioEnerGIS intends to:
- develop GIS-based standard methodologies aimed at mapping, at regional scale:
- the biomass potentially exploitable for energy purposes;
- the energy demand from potential final bioenergy users.
- identify reference plant configurations in terms of technological options and financial support schemes.
- develop BIOPOLE, a GIS-based tool aimed at identifying the most suitable sites for the installation of appropriate biomass conversion plants, by combining the supply and demand-side data as well as local legislation. BIOPOLE will help decision makers to choose, in a transparent way and by means of a participated process, the optimal (energy, environmental and economic sustainability approach) location and design of biomass plants.
- promote target groups aimed at:
- raising the general awareness of biomass potentials;
- fostering public and private investments in the sector.
The project is closed.
Project results
Major outputs and results:
- Standard methodologies to perform, at regional scales, georeferenced supply and demand-side analyses.
- In line with the EU legislation, BioEnerGIS contributed to harmonize the methodologies and glossaries in biomass assessment.
- Regional maps, describing the distribution of:
- the biomass potential - from forestry, agricultural residues, wastes and sludge, biogenic part of households and industrial wastes - in terms of:
- overall gross potential;
- economic potential;
- biogenic material without a well-established market destination;
- the heat demand potentially fulfilled by biomass district heating systems.
- A stand-alone database defining reference plant configurations, taking care of all aspects along the energy production chain.
- BIOPOLE, a GIS-based DSS, accessible through the web, integrating the supply and demand-side analyses, to optimize - through an energy, environmental and socio-economic approach - the localization of biomass plants.
- BioEnerGIS explored - through facilitation methods - the public and private stakeholders’ needs and interests in realizing the plants.
- Through the creation of regional networks in the four regions, the project set up specific actions to support the involvement of private and public stakeholders and to finalize specific local agreements.
