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BEST Program Manager:Kaisu Leppänen, M.Sc. (Chem.)Phone: +358 44 288 4824kaisu.leppanen@spinverse.comc/o Spinverse OyInnopoli 2, Tekniikantie 1402150 ESPOO, FINLAND

BEST Factsheet October 2013

Sustainable BioenergySolutions for Tomorrow

BEST Research areas

• Future bioenergy scenarios and strategies

• Understanding new markets

• Biomass availability, price and quality

• Flexible and cost-e� cient solutions for multi-fuel biomass supply chains

• Analysis and design of bioenergy systems

• Industrial bioenergy concepts

• Sustainability, health & safety issues

BEST is a joint research program of Cluster for energy and environment CLEEN and Finnish Bioeconomy Cluster FIBIC aiming at cooperation across traditional business area boundaries. The overall target of BEST is to build a solid common understanding of the future bioenergy business opportunities as well as the necessary know-how and capabilities for seizing them.

Bioenergy is a key element of bioeconomy, which plays a central role in the shift towards truly sustainable society. Bioenergy can also be considered one essential element in the future sustainable energy system. Based on these drivers, the BEST program builds on the world-class strengths of the Finnish forest, energy and technology sectors. Projecting from their competencies towards future bioenergy business, there are three main issues and objectives which form the core of the program:

Kaisu Leppänen, M.Sc. (Chem.)

kaisu.leppanen@spinverse.com

Innopoli 2, Tekniikantie 14

CHP generation is competitive in Finland

Established methods allow effi cient harvesting, supply and processing of forest biomass; other biomasses are used only in minor quantities

The business environment is relatively stable for now, but several political and sustainability issues might change in the near future

CHP and other energy concepts can be successfully exported to new markets

New solutions (including multi-fuel biomass processing terminals) enable the fl exible and cost effi cient supply of diff erent fuels

Finnish companies share a common understanding of and capabilities of adapting to the future bioenergy business environment

Current status Future status

The concepts and technological solutions developed in this program will provide the participating companies tools for increasing their competitiveness and creating new business opportunities. The built common intelligence will facilitate the program partners to cooperate as a bioenergy ecosystem, and as one central outcome, a roadmap for successful Finnish bioenergy business will be created. This is expected to create global opportunities for exporting complete concepts or technological solutions as well as to enhance the capability of Finnish actors to infl uence the discussion on e.g. the sustainability and regulation of bioenergy.

The BEST consortium is a joint research program managed by CLEEN Ltd, the strategic research centre for energy and environment and FIBIC Ltd, the strategic research centre for bioeconomy.

About CLEEN and FIBIC

Industrial partners 50.3 %Fortum 21%, Metso Power 10%, UPM-Kymmene 9%, Metsäliitto Cooperative 7%,Sen� t 6%, Measurepolis Development 5%,Metso Automation 5%, Stora Enso 5%, Arbonaut 4%, Andritz 4%, Pohjolan Voima 4%, Indufor 3%, Metsähallitus 3%, ÅF-Consult 2%,Ekokem 2%, City of Helsinki 2%, Gasum 2%,Neste Oil 2%, MW Power 2%, Inray 1%, Mantsinen Group 1%

BEST program volume16 M€ for 2013 – 2016

BEST consortium members

WORK PACKAGES

WP 1 – Bioenergy scenarios and strategies in global and local scales

The objective is to understand the strategic opportunities of bioenergy in the future operating environment. The work includes examining the techno- and socio-economic conditions required to foster the economically, socially and environmentally sustainable use of biomass for energy in its various forms, and the risks and uncertainties related to this. The outcome will be a shared view which facilitates program partners to cooperate as a bioenergy business ecosystem and a roadmap for successful Finnish bioenergy business.

WP 2 – Radical improvement of bioenergy supply chains

The main task in WP2 is to develop new biomass supply concepts where enhanced logistical operations, terminal processing and sophisticated measurement technologies better fulfi ll all stakeholders’ needs and create a competitive advantage. A central part of the concepts is the design and modeling of (virtual) biomass terminals or hubs, which convert various collected biomass feedstocks into higher value fuels and combine the required data of e.g. quality and biomass volumes. In addition, biomass availability and the use of Finnish competence in biomass sourcing in analyzing the challenges and opportunities in the utilization of Indian biomass resources will be studied.

WP 3 – Advanced integrated concepts and new markets

WP3 takes a deeper look at future energy concepts and new industrial concepts. In the fi rst two-year period of the program, the main objectives are to assess the role of bioenergy and biomaterials in future cities and to design bioenergy and biomaterial recycling systems for selected future city cases. In addition to Finland and Europe, Indian cities will be used as case studies of new markets. WP3 also addresses the design of new industrial bioenergy concepts such as integrating biomass conversion and processing units to power plants.

WP 4 – Enhanced business opportunities through securing sustainability

WP4 will begin by identifying the key sustainability indicators and methodologies from the point of view of diff erent bioenergy actors, and continue by testing and developing them in case studies to identify and create solutions for overcoming sustainability challenges in bioenergy chains. The output will be a framework for assessing the sustainability of bioenergy solutions for various purposes. The framework will include a systematic summary of approaches bioenergy actors can apply in developing both defensive approaches that ensure the acceptability of diff erent bioenergy chains but also proactive strategies that use sustainability as a source for competitive advantage.

Research Partners 49.7%VTT Technical Research Centre of Finland 17%,University of Eastern Finland 16%, Lappeenranta University of Technology 13%,Finnish Forest Research Institute 11%, Tampere University of Technology 11%, University of Oulu 10%, MTT Agrifood Research Finland 4%, Aalto University 4%,University of Helsinki 3%, Finnish Institute of Occupational Health 3%, Finnish Environmental Institute 3%, Finnish Geodetic Institute 2%, European Forest Institute 1%

Bioenergy systems and concepts & technological solutions

Policies, strategies, business environment

BEST research themes

WP 0 Management

WP 2 Radical improvement of bioenergy supply chains

WP 3 Advanced integrated concepts and new markets

WP 1Bioenergy scenarios and strategies in global and local scales

WP 4Enhanced business opportunities through securing sustainability

BEST Factsheet October 2013

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