Regional Bioenergy Initiatives – Increasing the market for Biomass use in Europe (REGBIE+)

The groundwork for REGBIE+ is the fact that the most important and prevalent renewable energy source used for heating in the EU is biomass in its various forms. Nevertheless, regional market structures are developed in a quite unbalanced way throughout Europe and the involved stakeholders are unevenly experienced. REGBIE+ involved 13 partners active in 13 regions from 11 EU countries. The project aimed at forwarding regional initiatives bundling measures like marketing, information, training and overall awareness.

Results

• Guidebook on financing schemes, stakeholder workshops.
• Implementation of Pellet Days in most regions (21 in total) attracting more than 3500 visitors.
• Implementation of School Competitions in 2007 and 2008 in most regions involving 250 schools from all school types and 3750 pupils triggering 900 creative works on biomass.
• Compilation of “Success Stories”.
• Knowledge Pool for tools, instruments, training materials, consultations, website, brochure on “European success stories”, final conference.

Total cost: 1 212 992 EUR

Coordinator: Target GmbH, Germany

Partners:

• Target GmbH, Germany
• Energie Agentur Steiermark GmbH, Austria
• Energy Centre České Budějovice, Czech Republic
• Institut Technique Européen du Bois Energie, France
• University of Applied Sciences and Arts Hildesheim/Holzminden/Göttingen, Germany
• South-East Regional Authority, Ireland
• Ökoinstitut Südtirol / Alto Adige, Italy
• Lithuanian Energy Institute Lithuania
• Baltycka Agencja Poszanowania Energii S.A., Poland
• BIOMASA, zdruzenie právnických osôb, Slovakia
• FUNDACION ASTURIANA DE LA ENERGIA, Spain
• Energikontor Sydost AB, Sweden
• GDE-Net, Sweden