FP6 - Bfuel/019795/2005 BIOGASMAX - Biogas Market Expansion to 2020

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Type of Project	Demonstration
Contract No	FP6 - Bfuel/019795/2005
Total Cost	17,011 KEuro
EC Contribution	7,490 KEuro
Start Date	1-1-2006
Duration	48 Months

Abstract

The overall goal of the project is to reduce dependency on oil, reduce greenhouse gases and direct emissions through increased and more efficient production, distribution and use of biogas in the transport sector generated from a wide variety of feedstock available in urban areas and regions in Europe. The project adopts the well-to-wheel approach to identify the potential for efficiency gains and cost optimisation to ensure market expansion. BIOGASMAX anticipates making a strong response to the EC policy objective to replace 20% of petroleum-based fuels in the transport sector with 5 8 % biofuels, 10% natural gas, and 2% hydrogen.

During the 4-year life of the project, BIOGASMAX aims to:

• prove the technical reliability, cost-effectiveness, environmental and societal benefits of biogas fuels;
• perform large-scale demonstrations to optimise industrial processes, experiment and benchmark new and near-to market techniques and expand biogas fleets;
• identify and assess ways to remove technical, operational, organisational/institutional barriers, which can inhibit or prevent alternative motor fuels and energy efficient vehicles from entering the market;
• spread knowledge about experience and results to European cities and stakeholders with emphasis on New Member States (NMS), so as to enhance the market acceptance of biogas as an alternative motor fuel.

The cities, industrial and research partners committed to BIOGASMAX are among the most innovative in Europe in terms of alternative fuels and energy efficient vehicles, in particular the production of biogas for vehicle fuel.

The project will get together complementary cities and regional authorities, working together with their fleet operators, vehicle and equipment manufacturers, technology providers, fuel and feedstock suppliers and researchers. It will develop large-scale demonstration initiatives, working on both the supply and demand sides, designed with well-wheel approach : from feedstock and massive production to transport and distribution and then use in captive fleets in cities.

By pooling their different approaches, the project cities will develop the production of biogas from the entire range of sources: treatment of sewage sludge, organic waste from household and industries, landfill gas, energy crops and rest products from the agriculture sector. Cities will also demonstrate new ways of gas and biogas fuel in energy efficient light / heavy vehicles, in public or private fleet. The project will develop the distribution and the infrastructure for biogas as fuel for vehicles. An important aspect of distribution is the "green gas principle" - upgraded biogas is injected and distributed in the natural gas grid.

To promote an increasing fleet of CNG/biogas vehicles it's necessary to develop the infrastructure for filling stations.

Communication and information focused on the use of gas-powered vehicle is necessary for increasing the gas vehicle market. Research activities will focus on the socio-economic, public acceptance and dissemination aspects of the project.

Objectives

• Based on an well-to-wheel approach in a real life environment, the project will prove the technical reliability, the cost-effectiveness, the environmental and societal benefits of the natural gas and biogas fuels
• Large-scale demonstration of the environmental and societal benefits of biogas and widely spread knowledge about them to European cities and stakeholders that would increase and ensure their progressive acceptance
• Using the same methodology as the other biofuel projects, contribute to identify and assess ways to remove existing technical, operational, organisational and institutional barriers, which prevent from significantly alternative motor fuels and energy efficient vehicles entering the market

The demonstrations will be undertaken in Lille (FR), Gothenburg (SE), Stockholm (SE), Haarlem (NL), Rome (I), and Zielona Gora (PL), who will make significant investments in the project supported by a wide range of actors and focused on integrated packages of demonstration measures.

Coordinator

Lille Métropole Communauté urbaine, France

Partners

• Goeteborg Energi AB, Sweden
• Business Region Goeteborg AB, Sweden
• City of Stockholm, Environment and Health Administration, Sweden
• Universitaet Stuttgart, Germany
• City of Haarlem, Netherlands
• European Natural Gas Vehicle Association, Netherlands
• Institut fuer Solare Energieversorgungstechnik, Verein an der Universitaet Kassel e. V., Germmany
• CADET INTERNATIONAL, France
• Société ESTERRA, France
• Gaz de France SA, France
• Municipality of Falkoeping, Sweden
• FordonsGas Sverige AB, Sweden
• Stockholm Water Company (Stockholm Vatten AB), Sweden
• AGA Gas AB / AGA AB, Sweden
• Svensk Vaextkraft AB, Sweden
• Svensk Biogas i Linkoeping AB, Sweden
• van der Wiel Holding BV, Netherlands
• DutCH4 Aardgas B.V. , Netherlands
• Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research, Netherlands
• Agence de l'Environment et de la Maitrise de l'Energie, France
• Azienda Municipale Ambiente s.p.a., Italy
• Istituto di Studi per l'Integrazione dei Sistemi, Italy
• Nova Energie GmbH, Switzerland
• Transport and Travel Research Ltd, UK
• University of Zielona Gora, Poland
• BIOGAZ INWESTOR Sp. zo.o, Poland
• conVoco sp. zo.o, Poland

Contacts

Contact

• Pierre HIRTZBERGER / Lille Métropole Communauté urbaine FRANCE