Program 2023

European Pellet Forum Graz 2023

Morning – Wednesday Jan. 18, 2023

}

08:00am – 08:45am

Registration

}

08:45am – 09:00am

Opening remarks

  • Christian Rakos, proPellets Austria (AUT)
}

09:00am – 10:00am

International market development

  • Gilles Gauthier, Hawkins Wright (BEL)
    Big picture – Recent developments in international pellet markets
  • Branko Glavonjic, University of Belgrade (SRB)
    Pellet market situation in Southeastern Europe
  • Christian Rakos, proPellets Austria (AUT)
    Coping with tight pellet markets – the Austrian experience
}

10:00am – 11:00am

Panel debate with European Pellet Associations: current developments and future perspectives

  • Pablo Rodero Masdemont, Avebiom (ESP)
  • Eric Vial, Propellet France (FRA)
  • Martin Bentele, Deutscher Energieholz- und Pellet-Verband e.V.
    (GER)
  • Matteo Favero, AIEL (ITA)
  • Adam Sarnaszek, Biocontrol (POL)

11:00AM – 11:30AM

Coffee Break

}

11:30am – 12:15pm

Policy situation and communication

• Irene di Padua, Bioenergy Europe (BEL)
Status of RED III negotiations and other important policy files in Brussels
• Yana Kravtsova, Enviva (USA)
managing communication challenges of the pellet sector

}

12:15pm – 12:45pm

Speed dating of participants to facilitate networking

12:45pm – 14:00pm

Lunch Break

Afternoon – Wednesday Jan. 18, 2023

}

2:00pm – 3:30pm

Market situation from industry

  •  Lars Bloch, Andritz (DNK)
    Market development of pellet mills
  • Stefan Ortner, ÖkoFEN (AUT)
    Pellet boiler market outlook
  • Marco Palazzetti, Palazzetti (ITA)
    Pellet stove outlook
  • Helmut Schellinger, Schellinger KG (GER)
    Perspectives of a pellet producer
  • Michael Christensen, CM Biomass (DNK)
    The pellet trading landscape – Outlook for commercial and industrial use of pellets
  • Staffan Lundegårdh, BKtech (SWE)
    Converting the energy supply of industries to pellets

3:30pm – 4:00pm

Coffee Break

}

4:00pm – 5:00pm

Underpinning the case for wood pellets – voices of science

  • Michael Obersteiner, University of Oxford (AUT)
    Biomass and climate mitigation
  • Hubert Röder, Weihenstephan-Triesdorf University of Applied Sciences (GER)
    Ecobalance / CO2 balance of different Forest use scenarios

Networking , Flying Dinner

Presentations Download
Program EPF 2023