Jean Francois Dallemand

European Commission | ec · Joint Research Centre (JRC)

Biogas is efficient renewable energy source concerning greenhouse gases emission (GHG) reduction and waste disposal. The most abundant biogas substrates are originating from agriculture, i.e., energy plants and wastes such as manure, and respective production and utilization can be used to support rural development. Defining sustainable potentials,...

Supplementary material Englund O, Börjesson P, Berndes G, Scarlat N, Dallemand J-F, Grizzetti B, Dimitriou I, Mola-Yudego B, Fahl F, (2019). Beneficial land use change: strategic expansion of new biomass plantations can reduce environmental impacts from EU agriculture. Global Environmental Change

This paper provides an overview of waste generation and treatment operations in the European Union (EU) and other European countries and an analysis of the possibilities for the use of municipal solid waste (MSW) for energy production. A geographic information system based methodology was developed to investigate the spatial distribution of MSW and...

The Covenant of Mayors in Sub-Saharan Africa (CoM SSA) supports local authorities in Sub-Saharan Africa in the climate challenge and in their efforts in ensuring access to clean energy. It is one of the "Regional Covenant" of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy (GCoM).This document has been prepared to assist Sub-Saharan Africa local...

Society faces the double challenge of addressing negative impacts of current land use, while increasing biomass production to meet the future demands for food, materials and bioenergy. Potential impacts of increasing the biomass supply are subject to debate. In the discourse, land use change (LUC) has often been considered as negative, referring to...

This paper provides estimates of available agricultural residues at the European level. It complements previous studies by expanding the geographical study area to 36 European countries, and improving the methodology by incorporating temporal variability of the theoretical potential resources and taking into consideration technical and environmenta...

This brief on biomass for energy is one out of a series of briefs from the EC's Knowledge Centre for Bioeconomy which intend to provide independent evidence for EU policy in this field. The following are the key results: 1. Biomass for energy (bioenergy) continues to be the main source of renewable energy in the EU3, with a share of almost 60%. The...

Anaerobic digestion is increasingly used worldwide to generate energy from biogas, bringing significant economic and environmental benefits. In particular, in the European Union (EU), biogas can contribute significantly in several countries to reach the renewable energy targets. This study provides an assessment of the spatial distribution of the b...

The development of renewable energy sources (RES) is a priority for the EU. This report provides a compilation of the different support schemes and measures implemented by he EU countries since the 2009 Renewable Energy Directive (RED) came into force. It focuses to a large extent on the information provided under RED's formal reporting process, co...

The presentation aims to produce an outlook on the (i) bioenergy progress in the EU over 2005-2016; (ii) some considerations for sustainability and conversion efficiency; (iii) overall measures related to the biomass use for energy in the EU; (iv) the support framework for biomass in electricity, heating/cooling and transport in the EU;

The need to integrate higher shares of renewables in the EU energy sector brings into discussion the way the renewable technologies/sources have been supported to date. Support schemes are currently the major drivers for investment in the EU electricity sector, while investments in grid assets are driven mainly by regulation that guarantees investo...

This paper presents an overview of the development and perspectives of biogas in and its use for electricity, heat and in transport in the European Union (EU) and its Member States. Biogas production has increased in the EU, encouraged by the renewable energy policies, in addition to economic, environmental and climate benefits, to reach 18 billion...

The United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) COP 21, including the Paris Agreement, has underlined the role of non-state-actors in limiting temperature increase to 1.5 °C compared to pre-industrial levels. Worldwide, there are an increasing number of transnational networks on climate actions driven by non-state actors. The fir...

People, planet, prosperity and peace are four priorities shared by Africa and Europe, and areas where opportunities for beneficial cooperation abound. Over the past three decades, the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre (JRC) has worked with many organisations and institutions across Africa. This report and its accompanying interactive onli...

The energy sector accounts for the lion’s share (55 %) of greenhouse gas emissions in the European Union (EU). While EU emissions had fallen by 22.1 % in 2015 compared with 1990, and continue to fall, the bloc’s economy grew by 27 % over that period. Since the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) entered into force, use of renewables has continued to g...

Satisfying an increasing wood demand for material and energy in EU?s future bioeconomy is a big challenge. Under the spotlight of EU?s climate and energy policies, wood is a key contributor to the renewable energy targets. The aim of our paper is to review and discuss how forests and wood can sustainably and efficiently contribute to such intensifi...

In this paper, industrial processing and biotechnological revalorization of Tequila waste and by-product streams have been reviewed. Tequila production process generates different kind of waste and by-products with a huge potential to produce value-added products. Therefore, many research projects, scientific investigations and innovative utilizati...

This Policy Brief is related to the publication - Renewable Energy Deployment in the European union

The poster provides information related to the biomass supply for energy use in the European Union

This report presents a snapshot of renewable energy development and progress expected by 2020, as forecasted in the EU Member States’ reporting under the Renewable Energy Directive and projected in the EU Reference 2016 and EUCO27 scenarios. The report compares the progress achieved between 2005 and 2015, as reported by EU Member States in their pr...

The European Commission’s initiative Covenant of Mayors (CoM), one of the world’s largest urban climate and energy initiatives, involving more than seven thousand local and regional authorities, proves that climate change has moved to the forefront of urban priorities. Its integrated approach is in line with a number of EU priorities not only conce...

The presentation is related to the bioenergy policy framework in the EU further to Renewable Energy Directive and related issues with sustainability criteria.

Sustainable energy in the Danube region as an integral part of the EU 2020 strategy - Analysis of NREAPs, NEEAPs and renewable energy progress reports of Danube region countries. 2016 EUR 27730 EN

Corn stover, among other crop residues, is becoming important an energy source, as non food/feed feedstock, especially for biofuels. A problem is to ensure a secure supply, which is influenced by drought. The further requirement is to eliminate or minimize biomass removal impact on soil fertility and erosion. The objective of the investigation was...

The use of renewable energy is projected to increase substantially in the European Union to reach a share of 20% in final energy consumption and 10% renewable energy in transport by 2020. The renewable energy contribution is further expected to increase to 55%–75% of gross final energy consumption in 2050. According to the latest reports, the Europ...

Energy is a critical issue for Africa, where large number of people do not have access to energy. Energy recovery from waste can play a role in minimising the impact of Municipal Solid Waste (MSW) on the environment with the additional benefit of providing a local source of energy. This study was carried out to assess, at the African level, the rol...

The current and expected developments up to 2020 of renewable energy and in particular of bioenergy in 13 Danube region countries was the main subject of the presentation. The presentation covered the recent and expected developments in three main sectors in the above mentioned Danube countries: heating/cooling, electricity and transport as well as...

Satisfying an increasing wood demand for material and energy in EU's 2030 bio economy is a big challenge. Under the spotlight of EU's climate and energy policies, wood is a key contributor to the renewable energy targets. How can forests sustainably and efficiently contribute to such intensified goals? EU's existing legal frameworks for legal timbe...

In the frame of its activities in supporting the EXPO 2015 and on the behalf of DG ENER, JRC has recently published a report [1] aimed at discussing the current state of play for food-related energy consumption and opportunities for improvement in the European Union. Detailed estimates for energy consumed in each production step for a basket of mos...

This report presents a snapshot of the current state of renewable energy development in the European Union and the progress expected by 2020, as forecasted in the Member States’ national renewable energy action plans. The report compares the progress achieved between 2005 and 2012 as that reported by EU Member States in their bi- annual progress re...

Poster on analysis of Croatian potentials of municipal solid waste for bioenergy

The amount of energy necessary to cultivate, process, pack and bring the food to European citizens’ tables accounts for 17 % of the EU's gross energy consumption, equivalent to about 26 % of the EU's final energy consumption in 2013. Challenges and solutions for decreasing energy consumption and increasing the use of renewable energy in the Euro...

The European Commission has set a long-term goal to develop a competitive, resource efficient and low carbon economy by 2050. Bioeconomy is expected to play an important role in the low carbon economy. This paper provides a review of the policy framework for developing a bioeconomy in the European Union covering energy and climate, agriculture and...

The European Union has committed itself to ambitious targets of Renewable Energy and bioenergy is expected to play a major role, increasing its contribution to Gross Final Energy Consumption from 2458 PJ in 2005 to 4605 PJ by 2020. Agricultural crop residues are considered a reliable resource for energy uses but important concerns still exist on th...

Mexico's government has introduced a Law on Climate Change that is unique worldwide; it establishes targets for greenhouse gases reductions at the same level of developed countries despite being an emerging country. This reform represents a crucial challenge for the electrical and transport sectors largely dependent on fossil energy since Mexico is...

The renewable energy policies in the European Union have already led to a significant progress; the energy mix should further change until 2020. Italy is planning to meet the 2020 targets on renewable energies also thanks to a relevant paradigm shift in renewable energy exploitation. Indeed, in 2005 the sector where RES were more present in Italy w...

Vojvodina is the region in Serbia with a lot of biomass resources mostly coming from agricultural sources. In order to explore the possibilities to use these resources, the research was made on the opportunities to use biomass CHP plants in three main scenarios based on characteristics of heat demand and electricity generation. Since there is not e...

The report aims to present a comprehensive analysis of current and expected deployment up to 2020 of bioenergy in 16 countries of Danube region: nine European Member States ( Austria, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Germany, Hungary, Slovakia and Slovenia) and seven non-European countries ( Ukraine, Republic of Moldova, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzeg...

Mexico ranks 9th in the world in crude oil reserves, 4th in natural gas reserves in America and it is also highly rich in renewable energy sources (solar, wind, biomasss, hydropower and geothermal). However, the potential of this type of energy has not been fully exploited. Hydropower is the renewable energy source with the highest installed capaci...

This report presents a snapshot of the use of renewable energy in the European Union, the status in 2010, the progress and the deviations from the targets set in the National Renewable Energy Action Plans. The report describe the developments in the overall contribution of renewable energy in each Member State since 2005 according to their first Pr...

Bioenergy is the production of renewable energy from organic material. It corresponds to three main feedstock categories (agriculture, forestry & waste) for three main uses (transport, heat & electricity). The development of bioenergy is often retained as a positive option due to its contribution to the mitigation of climate change, agricultural an...

The European commission Joint Research Centre has recently published a report (EUR 25980 EN ) providing a first quantitative estimation of climatic effects on renewable energy resources availability for Africa. Key climate parameters: solar radiation, wind speed, precipitation, surface temperature and surface runoff are provided by climate models...

Future Renewable Energy availability under the foreseen climate evolution for the next decades in the African continent is assessed. The evolution pattern of the natural resources (solar radiation, wind, biomass and running water) providing the raw "material" for Renewable Energy is analysed following some key climate scenarios developed and analys...

This paper provides a geographical assessment of potential bioenergy production in the European Union from residues of eight agricultural crops (wheat, barley, rye, oat, maize, rice, rapeseed and sunflower). The evaluation is geographically explicit at the scale of 1 km(2) and is based on two main computational steps. In the first step the amount o...

According to the renewable energy directive 2009/28/EC, the European Union Member States should increase by 2020 the use of renewable energy to 20% of gross final energy consumption and to reach a mandatory share of 10% renewable energy in the transport sector. This study aims to quantify the impact of 2020 bioenergy targets on the land use in the...

According to the renewable energy directive 2009/28/EC, the European Union Member States should increase by 2020 the use of renewable energy to 20% of gross final energy consumption and to reach a mandatory share of 10% renewable energy in the transport sector. This study aims to quantify the impact of 2020 bioenergy targets on the land use in the...

This report summarizes current knowledge at the Joint Research Centre regarding Renewable Energy in Africa. It assesses current energy consumption and the share of renewables in African states, and attempts to estimate the technical potential of available resources of solar, wind, biomass and hydropower which could be economically used to provide e...

20th European Biomass Conference held in Milan, Italy, 18 – 22 June 2012 Conference Proceedings ISBN: 978-88-89407-54-7 Edited by: B. KRAUTKREMER, Fraunhofer Institute IWES, Head of Bioenergy System Technology, H. OSSENBRINK, D. BAXTER, J.F. DALLEMAND, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Energy and Transport, Petten, The Nethe...

This paper provides an overview of the Norwegian biomass resources for bioenergy use, bioenergy market and frame conditions through a comparison with Denmark, Finland and Sweden, which have a leading role in bioenergy production in the European Union. Although the contribution of renewable energy in Norway is among the highest in Europe (58%), main...

19th European Biomass Conference held in Berlin, Germany, 6 – 10 June 2011 Conference Proceedings Edited by: M. FAULSTICH, Technische Universität München, Director Science Center Straubing, Germany, H. OSSENBRINK, D. BAXTER, J.F. DALLEMAND, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Energy and Transport, Petten, The Netherlands and...

This paper provides a resource-based assessment of availability of biomass resources for energy production in Romania, at NUTS-3 level. The estimation of available biomass includes the residues generated from crop production, pruning of vineyards and orchards, forestry operations and wood processing. The estimation of crop residue availability cons...

The objective of this paper is to provide a review on the latest developments on the main initiatives and approaches for the sustainability certification for biofuels and/or bioenergy. A large number of national and international initiatives lately experienced rapid development in the view of the biofuels and bioenergy targets announced in the Euro...

This paper provides a resource-based assessment of the available agricultural crop residues for bioenergy production in the European Union, at the level of the 27 Member States. The assessment provides the amount of the residues produced, collected, their present uses and the residues left available for bioenergy. This study considers the crop prod...

The objective of this paper is to discuss some scientific challenges related to the sustainability of the production and use of biomass for transport with specific focus on liquid biofuels. Specific attention is paid to the interaction between the European Union and tropical countries (examples of Brazil, Malaysia and India) in relation to biofuels...

held in Lyon, France, 3 – 7 May 2010 Conference Proceedings Edited by: J. SPITZER, Joanneum Research Austria, Chairman of IEA Bioenergy Implementing Agreement, Graz, Austria, H. OSSENBRINK, D. BAXTER, J.F. DALLEMAND, European Commission, Joint Research Centre, Institute for Energy and Transport, Petten, The Netherlands and Ispra, Italy, A. GRASSI,...

Road transportation is a strongly growing source of CO2, and use of biofuels represents one option to reduce end-of-pipe emissions of the existing car fleet. In this contribution, the implementation of the EU Biofuels Directive (2003/30/EC) and related voluntary measures at the local level are examined in Germany, UK, Italy and Finland and the citi...

Purpose The objective of this paper is to discuss some scientific challenges related to the production and use of biomass for transport, heat and electricity. Design/methodology/approach Specific attention is paid to the environmental assessment of liquid bio‐fuels for transport and to the discussion of causes of uncertainties in the assessment. T...