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Second French pellet forum: 19-21 May 2010 in Lyon

Bioénergie Promotion, partners and sponsors are happy to welcome you on the second French pellet forum website.

The   will be held on 19th to 21st May 2010  at the Double Mixte space, in Lyon-Villeurbanne.

GRANUPRO 2010 will propose two conferences days dedicated at 100% to pellet professionals (fuel, energy ans strategy)  ), one conference day for communities and three exhibition days to show equipments, services existing for the pellet sector.

The 2010 issue chose Lyon an the prestigious engineer school INSA of Lyon: a logical position between market and research.

Huge market opportunities thanks to large investments

Biofuels are man’s oldest fuel. Since the mid 17th century, biofuels began to be superseeded by other energy sources, more concentrated, more adapted for automatic feeding, and which led to higher energy consumption and CO2 emissions. The appearing of pellets during the second oil crisis, in the years 1974 to 1986, represents the first milestone that would then lead to the competition with fossil fuels in the early 21st century. Pellets are a convenient renewable densified fuel, being usable in automatic feeding appliances, and the raw material is widely spread and can be sold in every place..

Moreover, pellets are clean energy and are carbon neutral – something fossil fuels can’t compete with. So if managed sustainably, pellets are promissed to a long future, at least as long as the history of fire. All this lead up to the growth of the international and the French production. French production grew up from 17 000 tons in 2002 to 350 000 tons in 2009.

Markets which boost the French market are following:

  • domestic heating for cost and automatism reasons,
  • industrial heat and power production plants in Europe, because many of them easily converts from coal to take advantage from the CO2 neutral pellets,
  • collective heating is emergent since 2005, encouraged by real economies in terms of investments and maintenance compared to individual biomass heating plants.
With about 15 million users, France along with Germany is the first european wood energy consumer and in the same time its own resources could permit to double its current consumption.
With this favorable context, the French pellet sector invested a few hundreds millions € in less than 7 years, including offer and demand parts..

GRANUPRO set up in Rhône-Alpes

Usine de production de granulés

Greater Lyon is the European business crossroads, where a strong partner of the wood energy industry, INSA of Lyon, the most important Engineering School in France, will welcome the event thanks to its sister company INSAVALOR bridging the research and business world.

Moreover, pellets are clean energy and are carbon neutral – something fossil fuels can’t compete with. So if managed sustainably, pellets are promissed to a long future, at least as long as the history of fire. All this lead up to the growth of the international and the French production. French production grew up from 17 000 tons in 2002 to 350 000 tons in 2009.

  • domestic heating for cost and automatism reasons,
  • industrial heat and power production plants in Europe, because many of them easily converts from coal to take advantage from the CO2 neutral pellets,
  • collective heating is emergent since 2005, encouraged by real economies in terms of investments and maintenance compared to individual biomass heating plants.

With about 15 million users, France along with Germany is the first european wood energy consumer and in the same time its own resources could permit to double its current consumption.With this favorable context, the French pellet sector invested a few hundreds millions € in less than 7 years, including offer and demand parts.

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