Welcome to BioenNW: supporting businesses and organisations in North West Europe.

Bioenergy is a rapidly growing market driven by government policies promoting the use of low carbon energy and waste recycling. Targets to increase the security of energy supply and reduce greenhouse gas emissions have been set for all European Union member states to ensure the EU reaches a 20% share of renewable energy by 2020. Bioenergy technologies are being developed which offer significant energy efficiency and profit gains but support is needed to develop these innovations into a viable, sustainable energy source.

The BioenNW project supports organisations throughout North West Europe to explore the opportunities this growing bioenergy market offers and to realise their own local small-scale bioenergy schemes.

BioenNW has four main objectives:

• To provide information and support to organisations through the creation of a Bioenergy Support Centre network
• To create a decision support scheme to determine whether a bioenergy venture is feasible
• To test a range of potential feedstocks
• To create five local small-scale bioenergy installations ready for an investor to develop.

My career has been devoted to the development of bioenergy technology and I am delighted and excited to be leading the BioenNW Project which is committed to providing practical bioenergy solutions. BioenNW will help make bioenergy initiatives a reality by demonstrating a truly green and sustainable energy solution for organisations and communities throughout North West Europe. I hope our joint work and efforts under the BioenNW project will set an example for the rest of Europe.

If you would like to know more, please get in touch.

Professor Andreas Hornung
BioenNW Project Leader
Director, European Bioenergy Research Institute
Aston University, UK