Vojvodinasume: We Can’t Count of Wood Biomass as a Serious Source of Energy

Our capacities when it comes to wood biomass are very limited and it is practically impossible to count on wood biomass as a source of energy in serious, relevant quantities, while at the same time not jeopardizing the supply of wood-processing facilities with the raw material, stated the director of Vojvodinasume, Roland Kokai.

At the panel “The Living Environment as the Highest Priority” within the Kopaonik Business Forum, talking about wood biomass, which is the most important form of biomass for heating, considering the fact that its caloric value is much higher than that of agricultural biomass, he said that there could be no major annual increase in the wood mass at the existing forest grounds.

– If the use of wood biomass for energy purposes is promoted and stimulated without a plan, we will very soon have to face a choice as a society – whether to use the available wood mass as a raw material in the wood-processing industry (for wood construction materials, pallets, crates, furniture…) or as fuel, because there will not be enough for both. We should also keep in mind that investments in energy-efficient and ecologically acceptable biomass furnaces are not small, so previous analyses need to be done and it needs to be determined what the realistically available quantities of wood biomass are – Kokai said.

JP Vojvodinašume Petrovaradin

Vojvodinašume

Roland Kokai

Kopaonik Business Forum

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