Biomass power and trade conference - 11-12 March 2010, Rotterdam The Netherlands

2 February 2010- On March 11 and 12 2010, CMT is organizing a biomass power and trade conference, also in Rotterdam, the Netherlands. The conferences aims to provide opportunities for future and existing biofuels and biomass industry stakeholders to network other industry suppliers and technology providers, as well as utility executives, researchers, policy makers, investors and project developers. IEA Bioenergy Task 40 will be contributing a large number of speakers on the biomass trade situation in various Task 40 member countries, sustainability certification, torrefaction developments and several other topics. The final programme is now available. - UPDATE - 2 FEB - the CMT website is currently offline due to a damaged underwater cable. We hope that this will be resolved as soon as possible. In the mean time, please download the latest programme here [1,101 KB] .

2nd Task 40 newsletter published

2 February 2010 - Task 40 has published its second newsletter [177 KB] in which all recent and upcoming events and publications are summarized. This newsletter will be distributed amongst interested parties in all Task 40 member countries (and beyond). To subscribe to the newsletter, please use the follwing link.

Task 40 website updated

5 January 2010 - With the start of the new triennium, the Task 40 website has been updated and streamlined. While no documents have been removed, some links may have changed. You may also have to press the "refresh"-button in your brower for several pages to update your browsers cache. In case you have any problems accessing documents, please let the webmaster know.

2nd Generation Biofuels and Trade - an exploratory study

16 December 2009 - A new study [1,582 KB] by Douglas Bradley, Luc Pelkmans and Dieter Cupyers examines the potential supply and demand of 2nd generation biofuels up until 2030, and discusses various impacts on biofuel trade, ranging from cost advantages over shipping capacities and routes to policy impacts. It is an explorative study, highlighting the possible effects of large scale market penetraiton of lignocellulose-based transport fuels, but also highlights the large number of variables and uncertainties determining these developments. Also the impact of the global recession and the role of bio-refineries are briefly discussed.


TASK 40 / ERIA workshop in Japan on Biomass trade in East and South East Asia - presentations online!

24 November 2009 - All presentations of the Task 40 / ERIA joint workshop are now online, and provide state-of-the art overviews of ongoing trade of amongst other wood pellets, ethanol, palm oil and biodiesel in the region. Also, a list of participants and some photos are included.

A reliable supply of biomass and a reliable demand for bio energy is vital to develop stable market activities, aimed at bio-energy trade. Task 40, a task under the IEA Bio-energy Agreement (see http://www.ieabioenergy.com/), will contribute to the development of sustainable biomass markets on short and on long term and on different scale levels (from regional to global). The future vision of this task on global biomass trade is that it develops over time into a real “commodity market” which will secure supply and demand in a sustainable way; sustainability brings a key factor for long-term security.

These webpages provide information about the activities of task 40 and her members. For an overview see our work programme and the Task 40 information leaflet. [1,474 KB] The Task is lead by Andre Faaij (Copernicus Institute / Utrecht University) and Peter-Paul Schouwenberg (Nidera), assisted by Martin Junginger (Utrecht University).

If you have any comments, suggestions or questions regarding this website please contact Martin Junginger (H.M.Junginger "at" uu.nl)