Review of bioenergy projects implemented under IEE II : final report

This report provides a review of the support for bioenergy delivered under the Intelligent Energy Europe II (IEE II) programme in terms of measurable outputs and impacts. The IEE II programme was open to calls for proposals between 2007-2013 and has supported 47 bioenergy projects with €48.3m of funds: -18 projects for solid biomass (total funding: €17.5m); -14 projects for biogas (total funding €16m); -6 projects for liquid biofuels (total funding €5.2m); -9 projects for strategic initiatives (total funding €9.6m). IEE's role was to fund specific actions within the market place to overcome non-technological barriers to both the efficient use of energy and the greater use of new and renewable energy sources, with the overall aim of contributing to the provision of secure, sustainable and competitively priced energy for Europe. The bioenergy projects aimed to increase the share of biomass used in the production of electricity, heat and cooling. As of May 2015, 34 of the 47 IEE II bioenergy projects were complete. At that point, in order to understand the potential impacts of IEE II bioenergy funding both today and in the future up to 2020, and to feed into European future support structures and approaches (such as Horizon 2020), EASME commissioned this study to review all of the available evidence and provide expert opinion on the impacts claimed by the projects. A fundamental element of the review was to evaluate all available evidence on the basis of the reliability of the data. The methodology process used is shown in the figure below. The data was assessed as reliable (i.e. there was a clear reference source for the data), acceptable (i.e. using a clear methodology or estimate derived from reliable data) and potential (i.e. estimated from a related metric using a common conversion factor or from data potentially resulting from the project). Most data below is shown as reliable or reliable and acceptable. Where total data is provided this includes all potential estimated impacts as well. By the completion of this review, 43 of the 47 projects were complete, and their final data were taken into account when possible.