IrBEA and Teagasc held the 2010 National Bioenergy Conference entitled ‘‘Developing and Financing Bioenergy’ last week (18th February) at the Tipperary Institute,Thurles.
The conference was a great success with people travelling the length of the country to participate on the day. We would like to thank our sponsors FBD Trust for their kind sponsorship of the event and also Tipperary Institute for offering us superb facilities for the day.
Across the day a huge amount of experience was shared with presentations from a wide variety of both public and private interests.
Pearse Buckley from SEI kicked off the day with a discussion about the DCENR Bioenergy Working Group and the Bioenergy action plan. This was followed by Barry Caslin, Teagasc who presented on Agricultural policy on Bioenergy and GIS resources.
Next came Joe O'Carroll from Imperative Energy who described the barriers to raise capital for Bioenergy projects and emphasized the need for the public sector to show leadership as the largest estate owner in the country.
In the mid morning session Eugene Hendrick launched the Wood Fuel Quality Assurance Scheme and John O’Brien briefed everyone on its details with Richard Hadfield from NSAI contributing.
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A CHANGE to the new carbon tax to ensure it does not unfairly penalise producers of biofuels is being considered in discussions on the Finance Bill, to be published next week.
A group representing the biofuel industry claims the manner in which the tax has been applied is penalising environmentally-friendly fuels. The tax was introduced in last month's budget.
Pure biofuel is exempt from the carbon tax. However, the levy applies fully to blends where biofuel makes up less than 10 per cent.
The Irish Bioenergy Association yesterday said this was an injustice and acted as a disincentive for biofuel producers and consumers.
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The introduction of a Wood Fuel Quality Assurance (WFQA) scheme is now at an advanced stage, good progress has been made and a launch date has been set for the Thursday 18th February 2010 at the National Bioenergy Conference 2010 in Tipperary. John O'Brien will introduce us to how the scheme will run and discuss its main objectives.
For too long we have had a stop-start industry with some fuel producers diligently storing and drying their logs correctly prior to sale and delivering them in lots to suit the customer, while a few others were selling wet Sitka without any proper preparation. To counter any possible negative perceptions, woodland owners who have invested in the production of quality, dry wood fuel now want their produce covered under a quality assurance scheme that will allow the public to buy wood-based products with full confidence.
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