Argus Biomass Nordics and Baltics

• An overview of the Danish power and heating market and the use of biomass in the region
• Identifying growth of the biomass market and new policies driving the industry
• Reaching 2030 targets and the role biomass will play in energy production being 50% from renewable sources

• What demand drivers are there to boost biomass consumption?
• How the biomass market can adapt to a cyclical and seasonal marketplace
• Examining the current mis-match of supply and demand
• Fostering a deeper co-corporation to aid long-term business strategies

• Where do we see demand increasing for biomass across the region?
• Which new regions are emerging as sourcing potential including Russia, Poland and Belarus?
• What are the trends with smaller CHPs converting to wood chips and the impact on supply and demand balances?

• How the pellet and wood chip markets are evolving in the Nordics and Baltics
• Which new suppliers to Europe are emerging including the US and Russia?
• How do large biomass consumers outside of the region view the Nordics and Baltics?

• Understanding current production capacity and availability of raw material and biomass
• What does the future look like for wood exports, including any political barriers?
• Applying SBP and FSE certification and meeting quality requirements

• Dealing with historically high pellet prices and activity on the spot market versus index prices
• How can the industry move towards an index price and how will this impact the market?
• Building long term relationships to work better together through contract negotiation

• Looking at the need for transparency and how this is driving trading activities
• Understanding how fundamental commodity markets work
• What have been the parameters for driving up the price in the past?

• What restrictions and quality issues have arisen when sourcing product from new areas?
• Understanding the priorities when it comes to raw material quality
• How to use different material in boilers

• Setting up the right boilers with varying wood chip and pellet species and quality
• Researching and testing raw material to improve the running of the boiler
• Working with a high content of bark and ash

• Exploring the strategy review – certification requirements across the value chain
• What are the best practices to meet SBP requirements with multiple suppliers?
• Meeting SBP requirements and retaining high quality of biomass material

Exploring solutions to security of supply and financial responsibilities

• What does the current storage landscape look like in the Nordics and Baltics?
• How important are stockpiles for back-up in case of future lack of supply?
• What investments are being made to improve infrastructure?

• The place of biomass within dry bulk freight market
• Assessing seasonality in freight markets
• How are freight rates developing over short-term horizon?

• The need to improve infrastructure because of an expanding industry
• Building stockpiles at Ports to overcome the lack of storage
• How improvements will aid the trade of biomass in and out of the region

• Where do we see new conversions of CHP boilers from gas-to-biomass across the Nordics?
• Exploring increasing capacity at plants
• Understand the impact of conversions on supply demand dynamics

• Status updates of new wood chip plants in the Baltics
• How is new wood chip capacity impacting the export market?
• Looking at new technologies and investments to check quality

• Assessing the security of supply of waste wood across Europe including UK, Germany and Norway
• Identifying quality issues, contamination and changes in boilers
• What testing is available for wood chips?

• The growing utilisation of wood chips for pellet production
• What technologies are available for pellet production?
• Identifying the economic value gains

• Assessing the future availability of raw materials for premium pellets
• How has increased premium pellet prices impacted supply demand dynamics?
• What’s the future of premium pellets in the region?

• Investing in new units to increase pellet production
• How will the increase in pellet production affect supply?
• How much will be exported compared with used domestically?

• Identifying new sources of varying quality and certification
• Looking at ways to explore what species work and what doesn’t
• Adapting facilities to take in new feed and investing in testing

• Operating global storage facilities
• Improving security of supply for the pellet industry
• Taking a look at new investments in Savannah and how this can impact the European market