Bioenergy Greenhouse gas emissions: Align Calculations in Europe BioGrace-II Contract number: IEE/11/733/SI2.616371 Project duration: April 1, 2012 - March 31, 2015 Date of creation of these slides: May 2015 Slide 1 IEEA publishable slides

BioGrace-II – project summary Aim Harmonise calculations of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for electricity and heat from biomass in response to the call from European industry for harmonisation of biomass sustainability criteria. Expected results An Excel GHG calculation tool for electricity and heat from biomass Agreement in member states (6 or more) to use a harmonised approach Involvement of companies and verifiers Slide 2 IEEA publishable slides

BioGrace-II – project background Sustainability criteria for electricity and heat from solid and gaseous biomass are not yet harmonised EC makes proposals, which are not binding 2010 report (COM(2010)11) and 2014 update (SWD(2014)259 Project BioGrace-I has produced harmonised GHG calculation tool for biofuels New project BioGrace-II produced similar tool for electricity and heat from biomass (http://www.biograce.net/biograce2/) Within framework of SWD(2014)259 and COM(2010)11 In close contact to policy makers, companies and verifiers Slide 3 IEEA publishable slides

BioGrace – objectives and main steps Key objectives are: Develop a GHG calculation tool for electricity and heat from biomass Cause that GHG calculations in different MS are harmonised Cause that companies (including verifiers) give feedback on the calculation tool and use it Main steps are: Find out every detail of calculations that led to default values in SWD(2014)259 and accompanying JRC report on GHG calculations, and make them public Produce an Excel tool making these calculations transparent and allowing stakeholders to make own calculations Discuss with policy makers and convince them to choose for harmonised GHG calculations Broadly disseminate the results to European stakeholders Slide 4 IEEA publishable slides

BioGrace – results (1/2) Three versions of the BioGrace-II GHG calculation tool for electricity and heat from biomass were published Harmonisation of GHG emissions was discussed with policy makers from 13 member states Denmark and Netherlands have decided to harmonise GHG calculations by using the BioGrace-II tool During 9 feedback sessions and 3 public workshops more than 100 companies have commented on the key outputs of the BioGrace-II products 57 verifier trainers from voluntary schemes and verifiers operating under those schemes have been trained in GHG calculations during 5 training sessions Slide 5 IEEA publishable slides

BioGrace – results (2/2) 25 video instructions were prepared and put online via YouTube. These video instructions assist users of the BioGrace-II GHG calculation tool in understanding the basics and in getting into the details. The BioGrace-II activities and results were disseminated through www.biograce.net, a leaflet and a brochure, 8 newsletters and presentations at international conferences. Slide 6 IEEA publishable slides

BioGrace – partners and contact Project coordinator RVO (Netherlands Enterprise Agency) John Neeft e-mail: john.neeft@RVO.nl Project partners - AEBIOM, Europe (Jean-Marc Jossart) - BE2020, Austria (Nikolaus Ludwiczek) - BIO IS, France (Perrine Lavelle) - IFEU, Germany (Horst Fehrenbach) - STEM, Sweden (Alesia Israilava) - VREG, Belgium (Jimmy Loodts) - VEA, Belgium (Jimmy Loodts) Project website: www.BioGrace.net Slide 7 IEEA publishable slides