Johan Vinterbäck

• PhD Forestry
• Project Manager at Swedish Energy Agency

This study examined the system of wood pellet distribution to residential consumers. The distribution cost for a residential pellet consumer typically represents 30% of the per tonne price and of this share, the inventory cost could be more than 50%. Important administrative activities in physical distribution are forecasting demand and inventory c...

By using surplus land for biomass production, Mozambique could produce wood pellets for domestic use or export to the European market to meet increasing demand. This study investigated the time-dependent climate effects and energy balance of production and use of pellets from short rotation coppice eucalyptus cultivated on surplus land in Mozambiqu...

A higher percentage of energy from renewable resources is an important goal on many environmental policy agendas. Yet, the demand for renewable electricity in liberalized markets has developed much more slowly than the demand for other green products. To date, research has mainly examined the willingness to pay for renewable electricity, but limite...

The EUBIONET III project has boosted (i) sustainable, transparent international biomass fuel trade, (ii) investments in best practice technologies and (iii) new services on biomass heat sector. Furthermore, it identified cost-efficient and value-adding use of biomass for energy and industry. The aims of this article are to provide a synthesis of th...

Purpose – In the Baltic Sea area, wood fuels have been traded internationally on a relatively large-scale since the 1990s, with trade flows primarily from the Baltic States to Sweden and Denmark. This has been driven by strong demand for renewable energy in Scandinavia, inexpensive wood resources in the Baltic States and relatively low costs of sea...

The integration of European energy markets is a key goal of EU energy policy, and has also been the focal point of many scientific studies in recent years. International markets for coal, oil, natural gas and electricity have previously been investigated in order to determine the extent of the respective markets. This study enhances this field of r...

Rising energy prices, geopolitics as well as concerns over increasing oil prices, national security, and the impacts of greenhouse gas emissions on global climate change are driving large-scale efforts to implement bioenergy alternatives. Biomass (i.e., non-fossil material of biological origin from forest, agriculture, different kind of wastes or o...

The status of use of bioenergy, the current barriers for increased use and the future use of bioenergy in the Nordic-Baltic-NW Russian region is described in this report. In this region, forests are abundant and a long tradition of growing agricultural crops is evident. Therefore, there are sound possibilities for an increased future use of bioener...

The European biomass combined heat and power generation (BIO-CHP) project is under practice to ensure high quality of the future plants. The BIO-CHP project provides information on typical plant performance and best available technologies for authorities and future plant owners. The project is coordinated by the force technology and six European co...

Large-scale implementation of wood pellets as a solid biomass fuel represents a change in the energy system that will have both economic and environmental consequences. This article represents a summary of a state of the art conference, which was organised in Sweden in September 2002. The aim was to bring together people to create a network where i...

This paper discusses research carried out during the 1990s on European wood fuel trade at the Department of Forest Management and Products, SLU, in Sweden. Utilisation of wood-fuels and other biofuels increased very rapidly in some regions during that period. Biofuels are replacing fossil fuels which is an effective way to reduce the future influen...

Traditionally, wood fuels are used in the same geographical region, in which they are produced. However, this pattern is changing in Northern Europe due to large-scale use of biofuels for district heating and a vast supply of recycled wood and forestry residues. The aim of this study is to analyze the mechanisms behind the expanding European trade...

The implementation of solid biofuels for carbon dioxide mitigation represents a change in the energy system which will have both economic and environmental consequences. This article represents a summary of a state of the art conference which was organised in Sweden in September, 1997. The aim was to bring together economic and environmental expert...

The production of wood pellets in Sweden has increased steadily throughout the 1990s to about 500,000 tonnes in 1996. Previously used mainly by large-scale heating plants, wood pellets are now rapidly expanding into the residential heating market. The aim of this study was to analyze consumption patterns for wood pellets in the residential market....

The global growth in energy demand continues, but the way of meeting rising energy needs is not sustainable. The use of biomass energy is a widely accepted strategy towards sustainable development that sees the fastest rate with the most of increase in power generation followed by strong rises in the consumption of biofuels for transport. Agricultu...