Argus Biomass Nordics and Baltics

• Carlsberg Group perspective and developments in food/beverage sector
• Looking at long-term strategies to become carbon neutral
• Low carbon fuels to improve sustainability
• Reviewing feasibility studies for the use of biomass and biomass boilers

• Exploring statistics, seasonality, correlations and other characteristics of wood pellet prices and volatility
• Understanding explanatory factors driving wood pellet prices and volatility
• Assessing wood pellet prices in relation to alternative fuels including wood chips, straw, coal, CO2 and gas

• 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?

Moderator:

Gilles Gauthier, Certification Director, Bioenergy Europe 

Panellists:

Søren Alsing, Head of Fuel, Ørsted 
Michael Schytz, Head of Fuel and Logistics, Hofor 
Juhan Aguraiuja, Head of Project Development, Danpower Eesti 

• 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?

• Which countries and industry sectors will drive demand in the region and can it be sustained?
• What are the key uncertainties for future market development?
• Which strategic challenges and opportunities arise from the future market outlook?

• Understanding current and future production capacity and export opportunities
• Exploring infrastructure and logistics to export to Europe and Asia
• What are the opportunities for the Baltics market?

Focusing on the availability of sawdust, roundwood, hardwood and fibre in the region and beyond, the affect on premium and industrial pellet supply, and the impact volatility has had on prices

• How will producers adapt to tight balances and availability of raw materials?
• How is the premium market affected by the lack of sawdust?
• What is the impact of more roundwood exports to Scandinavia have on the sawmills?
• Will the abundance of hardwood over softwood increase industrial pellet production in the future?

Panellists:

Arnold Dale, Vice President Bioenergy, Ekman

Stig Hellerud, Supply Chain Manager, Viken AT Market

• How the waste fuel user landscape is changing from utilities and heating networks to integrated industrial users
• Understanding regulatory challenges – permits, trade restrictions
• Is the trend spreading further East including Russia and Belarus?

• 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

Continue your networking informally into the evening during the drink’s reception. 

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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?

Moderator:

Panellists:

Claus Mogensen, Country Manager, Denmark, SCANDBIO

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

• Exploring the first major plant and expanding the sourcing pool to meet wood chip demand
• Creating a long-term plan for sourcing and overcoming challenges in purchasing in a totally new market environment
• Handling logistics, storage and transportation with a touch of modern technology

• Key drivers towards usage of wood chips and expectations of growing demand
• Exploring investments in additional and reserved capacity to improve plant efficiencies
• Implementing new digital technologies for better utilisation of data

• Enea’s view on the Polish market
• Reviewing Polish regulation regarding biomass
• Support scheme for Energy & Heat production from biomass

• 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?

• 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

Join 10-15 peers with the same business ideas and strategies as you, and explore in small groups the answer to one of the below topics. Led by an industry thought-leader.

Roundtable 1: Contracts – how can these be better drafted? Borrowing lessons from other liquid commodity markets

Roundtable 2: What’s the future of alternative biomass including agriculture?

Roundtable 3: Sourcing wood chips from new regions