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Project Report,N1 April 2008 page 1

Introduction 2

Project 1 > Developing a network o actors to stimulate demand or locally produced biodieselrom used cooking oils (BioDieNet) 4

Project 2 > Carbon/eciency labelling and bio-blending or optimising benets o biodieseland additive use (Carbon Labelling) 5

Project 3 > Marine Fuel Gas Logistics (MAGALOG) 6

Project 4 > Overcoming non-technical barriers or ull-scale use o biodiesel in Europe (Pro-Biodiesel) 7

Project 5 > Renewable Fuels or Europe (Reuel) 8

Project 6 > Sustainable Green Fleets (SUGRE) 9

Project 7 > Promoting avourable conditions to establish biodiesel market actions (Biodiesel Chains) 10

Project 8 > Developing local supply chain networks, linking biouel producerswith public sector users (Bio-NETT) 11

Project 9 > COMmon PROcurement o collective and public service transport clean vehicles(COMPRO) 12

Project 10> Integrated promotion o the biodiesel chain (PROBIO) 13

Project 11> Green Fleet Procurement Models (PROCURA) 14

Project 12> Promoting sustainable energetic pathways or bus feets (STAR BUS) 15

Project 13> Inormation, Motivation and Conversion strategies or biouels with considerationo the special regional structures (BioMotion) 16

Project 14> Eective and low-disturbing biouel polices (ELOBIO) 17

Project 15> Market Development o GAS-driven CARs including supply and distributiono natural gas and biogas (MADEGASCAR) 18

Project 16> Biouels Networks in the Community (BIONIC) 19

Editorial inormation

Projects Reports are published by the Executive Agency or Competitiveness and Innovation o the European Commission (EACI). The reports showcaseprojects unded across the European Union by the Intelligent Energy-Europe programme (IEE) which promotes energy eciency and renewable energy.The projects are presented by theme and contain contact details or participants to help build a network o project participants across the EU.The reports are available in English, French and German.

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The European transport sector is 98% dependent

on ossil uels and accounts or around a quarter

o all CO2 emissions in the EU. Diminishing ossil

uel reserves and escalating global demand have

combined to push up prices and increase market

volatility. Future supply is uncertain.

This is why the EU is supporting alternative

uels, in particular biouels, with the triple

objective o reducing greenhouse gas emissions,

diversiying uel supply and developing long-term replacements or ossil uels. Boosting

biouel production is also expected to create job

opportunities in rural areas.

There are many dierent actors involved in the

biouels sector: armers, oresters, uel producers

and retailers, lling station owners, vehicle

manuacturers, local authorities and their energy/

transport/development agencies, feet managers

and drivers, as well as stakeholders rom the

environment and education sectors.

Biouels projects co-unded by the Intelligent

Energy-Europe programme (IEE) aim to stimulate

action at all levels, throughout the supply chain,

across the European Union. The overall aim is

to increase the production and use o greener,

alternative uels whilst at the same time improving

their economic competitiveness and minimising

their environmental impacts.

The projects also aim to transer experience and

understanding o the use o biouels. They shouldhelp ensure that regions where markets are less

developed benet rom the experience o those

who are urther down the path. They should also

develop business opportunities in agricultural

communities and promote contacts between

dierent actors, while at the same time oering

training to proessionals, armers, technicians

and cratsmen. Nearly all projects involve new

Member States.

The barriers aced by biouels in the EU vary

according to their specic characteristics. This

is refected in the choice o IEE projects, which

address the barriers related to each uel. Anumber o existing projects specically target

biodiesel, which is currently the most used biouel

in Europe. Others deal with biogas and natural

gas, while some target more than one uel. There

is at the moment no IEE project ully dedicated

to the promotion o bioethanol, though it is

touched upon by those targeting more than one

uel. Bioethanol projects are expected to kick o

in the next ew years.

Second generation biouels will have an important

role to play as soon as they are ready or the market.

They should be more sustainable, boasting both

a lower environmental impact and lower costs.

Whilst research continues on the development o

second generation biouels, the IEE programme

is working with the biouels already available to

create avourable market conditions.IEE projects

are also addressing sustainability criteria and the

international trading o biouels.

Ongoing projects can be grouped into three main

areas:

Projects promoting the development o local

biouel supply chains.

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These are designed to give a boost to local and

regional networks along the biouel supply

chain. They support the sharing o knowledge

and experiences between local and regional

actors on the one hand, and between dierent

EU regions on the other. They also aim to develop

best practice.

BIODIENET, BIODIESEL CHAINS, BIO-NETT, PROBIO,

BIOMOTION, BIONIC.

Projects stimulating the demand or alternativeuels and vehicles.

Projects under this heading help decision makers

in the transport sector with specially designed

tools; provide training to feet managers; drat

model procurement procedures; and help cities

join together or the procurement o clean

vehicles.

COMPRO, PROCURA, STAR BUS, SUGRE,

MADEGASCAR.

Projects tackling horizontal issues related to the

production and use o alternative uels.

Examples include a project to develop labels and

standards or promoting sustainable biouels; the

improvement o logistics or the production and

distribution o specic uels; the development o

economic modelling tools and the evaluation o

the impact o biouels on other markets.

CARBON LABELLING, MAGALOG, PRO-BIODIESEL,

REFUEL, ELOBIO.

These projects have thrown up some interesting

challenges. The ull involvement o all stakeholders

is vital or the successul promotion o biouels.

Action can take place on a local level, but the

exchange o experiences between actors plays a

crucial role. The sector is highly dynamic; markets

are growing rapidly and evolving. Actors need to

be ready to adapt to new conditions.

Last but not least, the sustainability o biouels and

their potential impacts on other sectors includingland use are and will remain critical issues.

Concrete results are starting to materialise.

Transport companies and local authorities are using

the experience gained to improve the use o green

vehicles and uels in their feets. Proessionals,

such as armers or oresters, who, until now, have

not thought o themselves as energy suppliers,

are getting involved and seeking new business

opportunities. Fleet managers are taking better

inormed decisions. Joint procurement initiatives

between dierent cities have been put in place.

The tools developed within the projects provide

market actors and policymakers with greater

understanding, so that they can take inormed

decisions on this complex subject.

Alternative uels provide an important

contribution towards climate change mitigation

and security o supply. They are, however, only

part o the solution, and must be considered

within a wider context, in which eorts are also

being made to reduce transport demand, improve

transport eciency and encourage the use o

environmentally riendly modes o transport.


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Developing a networko actors to stimulate demandor locally produced biodiesel

rom used cooking oilsBioDieNet

Duration: 1/200712/2009

ObjectiveBioDieNet seeks to encourage localised, small-scale production o biodiesel rom used cooking oils.

This approach is designed to acilitate the substitution o ossil uels while avoiding the side eects

o large-scale, centralised production o crops.

Seventeen partners in 10 regions are coming together to orm a network to share practical inormation

on how to increase the take-up o biouels rom used cooking oils in public and private vehicles.

The project aims to stimulate local collection o waste oil, biodiesel production and distribution

to users.

Results> 12 small-scale biodiesel-rom-used-cooking-oil production plants

will be set up across Europe.

> A handbook and a training programme will be produced or those looking

to break into the biodiesel market.

> 30 new lling stations will supply higher concentrations o biodiesel.

> 2 500 more vehicles will run on higher concentrations o biodiesel.

Budget: 1 564 394 (EU contribution: 50%)

COORDINATOR

Roger Kelly

Energy Solutions (North West London),

United Kingdom

+44 208 904 2444

[email protected]

www.biodienet.eu/

PARTNERS

Asociatia "Agentia pentru Managementul

Energiei si Protectia Mediului"

Agencia Energtica de la Ribera, Spain

u Agire - Agenzia Veneziana Per lEnergia, Italy

Agncia Municipal de Energia de Sintra, Portugal

North East London Energy Eciency

Advice Centre, United Kingdom

Agncia Municipal de Energia e Ambiente

de Oeiras (OEINERGE), Portugal

Brent Community Transport, United Kingdom

Soa Energy Centre, BulgariaEcoys Netherlands BV, Netherlands

Federation o Scientic & Technical Associations,

Italy

Province o Frysln, Netherlands

Innoterm Energetikai s Krnyezetvdelmi

Fejleszt Kt, Hungary

Milvenn AS, Norway

Energia e Territorio SpA, Italy

Western Norway Research Institute, Norway

Bundesverband Freie Tankstelle, Germany

> C O N T A C T D E T A I L S

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COORDINATOR

Dr Rainer Janssen

WIP GmbH & Co Planungs, Germany

+49 89 72012 743

[email protected]

www.co2star.eu/

PARTNERS

Home Grown Cereals Authority, United Kingdom

SenterNovem, Netherlands

Manzoil Sp. z o.o., Poland

Q1 Tankstellenvertrieb GmbH & Co. KG, Germany

Malta Resources Authority, Malta

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Carbon/eciency labellingand bio-blendingor optimising benets

o biodiesel and additive useCarbon Labelling

Duration: 10/20069/2008

ObjectiveThe Carbon Labelling project aims to inorm consumers about the savings they can make by switching

to biodiesel through a series o proessionally designed labels. The labels will show the carbon lie cycle

calculated using greenhouse gas models put together by leading European research institutes. The labels

can be applied to products such as biodiesel, uel eciency improvements or even low carbon reightservices.

Results> Carbon labelling pilot programme or B100 biouel underway

at uel stations o German retailer Q1.

> Carbon labelling pilot programme or reight services operating

with B100 underway in the Netherlands.

> Pilot programme extended to lubricants and additives.

> Dutch fower transporters have asked to use the CO2 star label.

Budget: 808 726 (EU contribution: 50%)

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COORDINATOR

Mr. Alonso Ezquerro

Acciona Biocombustibles S.A, Spain

+34 94 820 61 68

[email protected]

www.probiodiesel.com

PARTNERS

Repsol YPF, Spain

Austrian Biouels Institute, Austria

Otto-von-Guericke-University o Magdeburg,

Germany

Centre or Renewable Energy Sources (CRES),

Greece

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Overcoming non-technical barriersor ull-scale use o biodieselin Europe

Pro-BiodieselDuration: 1/200612/2007

ObjectiveBiodiesel must become a commercial and competitive product using the broadest range possible

o raw materials rom both north and south Europe.

Pro-Biodiesel aims to overcome barriers to this transormation and successully put on the market

35 000 tonnes a year o biodiesel, rom at least eight dierent raw materials. It will involve assessing

barriers in the logistics and distribution industries and proposing improvements to EU regulations

and standards. Barriers preventing the large scale roll-out o biodiesel use in vehicles must be understood

and removed.

Results> Comparative study on the best raw materials or mass production o biodiesel,

including additives or improved uel characteristics.

> Contribution made towards modication o EU biodiesel standard.

> Study on biodiesel storage and distribution issues.

> Assessment studies o biodiesel social acceptability in Germany, France

and Spain completed with a view to improving sales.

Budget: 772 244 (EU contribution: 50%)

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Renewable Fuels or EuropeRoadmap to 2030 or biouels

Duration: 1/20068/2008

ObjectiveGetting to the point where biouels have achieved signicant market penetration requires a roadmap.

Reuel has set up an ambitious yet realistic roadmap or biouels in the uel mix or EU transport in 2030.

It has analysed the least-cost options or a biouel mix which will meet EU targets, as well as production

chains, conversion technology and biomass eedstocks.

It lays out actions required rom all players in the chain, rom the producer to the consumer, and suggests

a timetable or these actions. Reuel includes recommendations on the policies needed to mobilise

stakeholders and create the right incentives.

Results> According to the evaluation o available land, which the project consortium carried out

taking into consideration European ood demand, nature conservation, and expansion

o built-up land, 40 million hectares o land may become available or alternative use

by 2030 in a conservative scenario.

> In the consortiums opinion, while rst generation biouels would reach the current EU

targets, the successul introduction o second generation biouel technologies would

be needed in view o the underlying policy objectives o climate protection, security

o energy supply and competitiveness.

> The roadmap also highlights the dierent risk prole and challenges aced by second

generation biouels compared to rst generation, and how dierent policy options might

infuence them.

Budget 1 836 570 (EU contribution: 50%)


COORDINATOR

Marc Londo

ECN Energy Research Centre o the Netherlands,

Unit Policy Studies

+31 224 568253

[email protected]

www.reuel.eu

PARTNERS

International Institute or Applied Systems

Analysis IIASA, Austria

Utrecht University, Copernicus Institute,

Netherlands

Chalmers University o Technology, Sweden

COWI, Denmark

EC BREC Instytut Energetyki Odnawialnej Sp

EC BREC IEO Ltd, Poland

Joanneum Research Forschungsgesellschat

GmbH, Austria

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Sustainable Green FleetsSUGRE

Duration: 1/200612/2008

ObjectiveSUGRE aims to encourage vehicle owners to switch to cleaner uels, whether they are biouels, methane

or hybrid systems using both combustion engines and electric propulsion. There is a need to show to

users that vehicle feets are viable when run on alternative uels. This will be achieved using captive

feets as orerunners. The captive feets will orm the basis o training and brieng sessions or other feet

owners, which should help the new technology to spread. When feet owners are convinced, individual

car buyers should ollow. Inormation on reuelling sites will be distributed via an Internet platorm.

A support desk will also help with issues such as procurement.

Results> Initial results have identied the need or Member States to use the tax and public

procurement systems to create incentives or biouel vehicles.

> This is especially important or orerunner feets, due to the increased investments

in reuelling systems and vehicle adaptation.

Results 2 580 000 (EU contribution: 50%)

COORDINATOR

Mr Gerried Cebrat

Austrian Mobility Research, Austria

+43 316 810451 35 (VOIP available)[email protected]

PARTNERS

AGENEAL, Agncia Municipal de Energiade Almada, Portugal

Alianta, projektno svetovanje, d.o.o., Slovenia

Agenzia per i Trasporti Autoerrotranviaridel Comune di Roma, Italy

Aristotle University o Thessaloniki, Greece

BESEL, S.A., Spain

Freie Hansestadt Bremen/Der Senator r Bau,Umwelt und Verkehr, Germany

Budapest University o Technology andEconomics Department o EnvironmentalEconomics, Hungary

Agenzia Energia e Ambiente di Torino, Italy

SC CHIMINFORM DATA SA, Romania

German-Hellenic Chamber o Industry andCommerce, Dept. Northern Greece, Greece

ECOLANE LIMITED, United Kingdom

Rhnalpnergie-Environnement, France

Ecoys Nederland BV, NetherlandsErdgas-Fahrschul-Agentur, Germany

City o Graz Stadt Graz, Austria

Grazer Stadtwerke AG Verkehrsbetriebe, Austria

IFEU Institut r Energie- undUmweltorschung Heidelberg GmbH,GermanyINREGIA AB, Sweden or WSP Sverige AB,Sweden ? Or both?IVECOL-Ivan Vassilev, Bulgaria

Agncia Municipal de Energia e Ambiente deOeiras (OEINERGE), Portugal

TV Energy, United Kingdom

MESTNA OBINA CELJE, Slovenia

Politechnika Warszawska (Warsaw Universityo Technology), Poland

Icelandic New Energy Ltd. Iceland

Bremer Energie-Konsens gemeinntzigeGesellschat GmbH, Germany

Slovnat VURUP a.s., Slovakia

Uniunea Romana de Transport Public, Romania


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COORDINATOR

Mrs Myrsini Christou

Center or Renewable Energy Sources (CRES)

+30 210 6603394

[email protected]

www.cres.gr/biodiesel

PARTNERS

Institut r Energie- und Umweltorschung

Heidelberg GmbH (IFEU), Germany

Universit catholique de Louvain (UCL), Belgium

Energy or Sustainable Development Bulgaria

Ltd (ESD), Bulgaria

Intertermo Concept (ITC), Romania

Krajowa Agencja Poszanowania Energii S.A.

(KAPE), Poland

AEOLIKI LTD, Cyprus

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Promoting avourable conditionsto establish biodiesel market actionsBiodiesel Chains

Duration: 1/200612/2007

ObjectiveActors rom EU countries with a less developed biodiesel market are taking part in the Biodiesel Chains

project, which will help them learn rom success stories elsewhere.

The project targets six countries: Greece, Belgium, Poland, Cyprus, Romania and Bulgaria, where moves

towards the setting up o biodiesel market chains have, until now, been limited.

It revolves around a critical analysis o market developments in the wider EU o 25 nations, including

drivers, barriers and windows o opportunity, and best practices in leading European Member States.

It will aim to pass on these success stories to the six countries identied.

Results> EU-25 biodiesel status report.

> Best practice stories and case studies.

> Exchanges with key stakeholders in order to create avourable conditions

or the biodiesel market.

Results 759 995 (EU contribution: 50%)

Understandingbiodieselsupply chains


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COORDINATOR

North East London Energy Eciency Advice

Centre Ltd

United Kingdom

+44 208 509 4365

www.bio-nett.org

PARTNERS

Development Agency o Eastern Thessaloniki

(ANATOLIKI), Greece

Association Municipal Energy Agency Rousse

(MEA), Bulgaria

Energy Agency or Southeast Sweden (ESS),

Sweden

Baltycka Agencja poszanowania Energii SA

(BAPE), Poland

Tipperary Energy Agency Ltd (TEA), Ireland

Rigas Menedzeru Skola (Riga Managers School)

(RMS), Latvia

Severn Wye Energy Agency Ltd (SWEA),

United Kingdom

Fundacion Agencia Regional de Gestion

de Energia de Murcia (ARGEM), Spain

Comitato Termotecnico Italiano (CTI), Italy

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Developing Local supply chainnetworks, linking biouel producerswith public sector users

Bio-NETTDuration: 1/20068/2008

ObjectiveBiouels need networked markets i they are to achieve their potential, and Bio-NETT aims to bring

together these markets on a regional level. By linking suppliers and users in both the countryside and

the town, the project will build up markets by developing skills and giving nancial support. It will also

help raise awareness among public sector feet managers and spread knowledge at local, national and

European level. Each partner participating in the project will contribute to exchange o inormation on

biouels. The project will capitalise on the huge appetite in the public and the private sector or the useo biouels, which has already generated a positive response to the projects goals.

Results> Ten regional biouel networks have been set up.

> Five biouels transport projects established, representing a potential

carbon dioxide emission reduction o 1 500 tonnes o CO2 per year.

> Publication o best practice tools and project documentation; 500 project brochures and

100 CD-ROMs distributed per partner establishing a biouel inormation exchange centre.

> Identication o two pilot projects in the production, distribution or use o biouels

in each partners country and, where possible, help with implementation.

> Production and dissemination o technical tools or encouraging the production

and the use o biouels in public transport (or example, business plan model,

list o third-party nancing sources, vehicle conversion kit).

Results 1 148 305 (EU Contribution: 50%)

Biouelsupplierand usernetworking


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COORDINATOR

Mr Andrea Ricci

ISIS Institute o Studies or the Integraion

o Systems, Italy

+39 06 3212655

[email protected]

www.compro-eu.org

PARTNERS

Nantes Mtropole communaut urbaine, France

Socit dconomie mixte des transports

de lagglomration nantaise (Semitan), France

Freie Hansestadt Bremen, Senator r Bau,

Umwelt und Verkehr, Germany

Bremer Straenbahn AG, Germany

Regione Emilia-Romagna; Agenzia Trasporti

Pubblici, Italy

Gteborgs Gatu AB, Sweden

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COMmon PROcuremento collective and public servicetransport clean vehicles

COMPRODuration: 1/200712/2009

ObjectiveCOMPRO aims to create an international buyers consortium o local authorities or the joint procurement

o clean, collective, public service transport vehicles. The group o investors will begin with our local

authorities and will quickly expand to include more cities, thus creating a critical mass and leading to

more competitive prices.

With help rom industry the project team will keep in touch with the latest technological advances. The

ultimate aim is the promotion o a clean vehicles market on a European scale, identiying, in the process,

barriers to production and distribution.

Results> Following an internal debate, participants have opted to use

compressed natural gas and hybrid technologies.

> Denition o common tender structure.

> Convergence o interests towards standardised vehicles.

> First potential ollower cities have been contacted.

Results 1 593 594 (EU contribution: 45.98%)

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COORDINATOR

Ricardo Pizzarro Villanueva

Asociacin Agencia Provincial para el Control

de la Energa de Burgos (AGENBUR), Spain

+34 947 040628

[email protected]

www.probio-project.com

PARTNERS

Agencia de la Energa de la Provincia

de vila (APEA), Spain

Exma. Diputacin Provincial de Huelva

(Dip. Huelva), Spain

Razvojna agencija Sinergija d.o.o. (Sinergija),

Slovenia

Univerza v Mariboru, Fakulteta za Kmetijstvo

(Univ.Maribor), Slovenia

Regione Abruzzo/ARAEN, Italy

Dipartimento de Scienze degli Alimenti,

Universit degli Studi di Teramo (DSA-UNITE),

Italy

Asociacin para la Gestin del CEEI Burgos, Spain

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Integrated promotiono the biodiesel chainPROBIO

Duration: 1/20076/2009

ObjectivePROBIO aims to bring together biodiesel producers and consumers throughout Europe and in ve

regions in particular: Burgos, vila and Huelva (Spain), Pomurje (Slovenia) and Abruzzo (Italy). The plan

is three-pronged: new market development; promotion; and training. The project attempts to overcome

barriers such as the lack o knowledge among armers (leading to a lack o raw material) and a lack o

awareness among the public, among local authorities and in the transport sector. With the cultivation

o more energy crops, biodiesel consumption should increase by 4% to 5% by 2010. Much o the work

is aimed at armers.

Results> Barriers to use identied in dierent EU countries.

> Current rate o biodiesel use identied in dierent EU countries.

> Biodiesel consumption will be increased through commercial contracts with groups

such as armers associations, taxi drivers associations, and heavy machinery suppliers.

> Increased use o micro-installations.

Results 965 121 (EU contribution: 49%)

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COORDINATOR

M.F. Chang

Ecoys Netherlands BV, Netherlands

+31-30- 2808449

[email protected]

www.procura-feets.eu

PARTNERS

Federation o Scientic and Technical

Associations, Italy

Municipality o Nijmegen, Netherlands

Terberg Leasing BV, Netherlands

European Natural Gas Vehicle Association,

Netherlands

ETA, Energia, Trasporti, Agricoltura S.r.l., Italy

Krajowa Agencja Poszanowania Energii S.A.,

Poland

Instituto Superior Tcnico, Portugal

Ford-Werke GmbH, Germany

NTDA Energia, Spain

Utrecht University, Netherlands

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Green Fleet Procurement ModelsPROCURA

Duration: 1/200612/2008

ObjectiveTo achieve the EUs aim o a 10% switch rom oil-based motor uels to alternative uels by 2020, there

will need to be large-scale buying o green vehicles. PROCURA aims to lay the groundwork or the

development o a large Alternative Fuel Vehicles (AFV) market by tackling the barriers that exist and

nding new ways to overcome them.

The strategy is to develop and test models or centralised buying, by encouraging pools o potential

customers and targeting privately owned feets. Green vehicles will need a certication system and

there will also need to be a second-hand market i the AFV industry is to take o. Both these issues are

also tackled.

Results> The rst feet scans have been carried out;

150 in total are planned by the end o the project.

> Manuals are being developed or pilot programmes

in the Netherlands, Italy, Portugal, Poland and Spain.

> Alternative uel vehicle inrastructure opened in the Netherlands.

> Study has identied buying motives so that potential buyers can be targeted.

> Two hundred green vehicles will be bought as a result o the projects activities.


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COORDINATOR

Gabriel PLASSAT

Agence de lEnvironnement et de la Matrise

de lEnergie (ADEME), France

+33 (0)4 93 95 79 96

[email protected]

www.starbus-project.eu

PARTNERS

BR, France

Centre dEtudes Techniques de lEquipement

(CETE), France

Center or Renewable Energy Source (CRES),

Greece

Centre de Recherche en Machines Thermiques

(CRMT), France

Ente per le Nuove Tecnologie,

lEnergia e lAmbiente (ENEA), Italy

Krajowa Agencja Poszanowania Energii S.A.

(KAPE), Poland

Agncia Municipal de Energia-Ambiente

de Lisboa (Lisboa E-Nova)

Rgie Autonome des Transports Parisiens (RATP),

France

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Promoting sustainable energeticpathways or bus feetsSTAR BUS

Duration: 1/200612/2008

ObjectiveTaking public transport is a greener alternative to driving a car, but that is no reason to suggest that

buses can be excused rom cleaning up their act.

STAR BUS, a three-year project, aims to provide transport authorities on both local and national levels

with the tools and methodologies they need to decide what kind o uels can be both cost-ecient and

low in pollutants. It will analyse the benets and drawbacks o biouels, LPG and diesel, among others,

in order to come up with models to help managers choose. It will take into account actors such as

maintenance costs, noise and greenhouse gas emissions.

Results> Eleven out o 20 pathways already measured, taking into account dierent uel

and engine combinations to achieve pollutant and consumption readings.

> Preparations advanced or road-testing o this inormation on real buses

to collect data or dierent routes.

> Partial results o tests and newsletter posted on website.


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COORDINATOR

3N-Network o Renewable Resources in Lower

Saxony/Chamber o Agriculture Lower Saxony

Ms Marie-Luise Rottmann-Meyer

+49 (0) 5951-989310

[email protected]

www.biomotion-project.eu

PARTNERS

Chamber o Agriculture North Rhine-Westphalia

(LWK NRW), Germany

Institute or Building Mechanization and

Electrication o Agriculture in Warsaw (IBMER),

Poland

University o Agronomic Sciences and Veterinary

Medicine Bucharest (UASVM), Romania

Chambre dAgriculture de lAisne (CA 02), France

University o West Hungary, Faculty o

Agricultural and Food Sciences, Centre o

Agricultural Science (NYME ML SZTI), Hungary

Dienst Landelijk Gebied voor ontwikkeling

beheer Groningen (DLG), Netherlands

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Inormation, Motivationand Conversion strategiesor biouels with consideration

o the special regional structuresBioMotion

Duration: 9/20074/2010

ObjectiveBioMotion aims to increase the use, knowledge and acceptance o biouels. Given that one o the main

obstacles to the use o biouels is a lack o awareness and insucient knowledge, BioMotion will create

a solid and extensive knowledge platorm. An international cluster o relevant actors and seven biouel

inormation centres will be established. A number o highly visible examples, or beacons, will be usedto demonstrate the use o various raw materials or the production o dierent biouels on a commercial

scale.A BioMotion-Tour, with vehicles powered by several types o biouels, will show the advantages

o using biouels. The project should encourage the development o biouel supply chains and highlight

market opportunities, particularly in rural areas.

Expected results> The development o an international cluster o actors in the biouels sector.

> The setting up o seven biouel inormation centres.

> The BioMotion-Tour a public relations campaign.

> The creation o a number o best practice examples (beacons).

> The establishment o value-added biouels supply chains or rural areas

rom eld to tank.

Results: 98 641 800 (EU contribution: 50%)

Promotingbiouels withinormation

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COORDINATOR

Energy research centre o the Netherlands (ECN)

Mr Marc HM Londo

+31 224568253

[email protected]

www.elobio.eu

PARTNERS

Vlaamse instelling voor technologisch onderzoek

NV (VITO), Belgium

Centralne Laboratorium Natowe (CLN), Poland

Centro de Investigaciones Energticas,

Medioambientals y Technolgicas (CIEMAT),

Spain

COWI, Denmark

International Institute or Applied Systems

Analysis (IIASA), Austria

Chalmers University, Sweden

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Eective and low-disturbingbiouel policesELOBIO

Duration: 11/20074/2010

ObjectiveIncreased demand or biouels could have long-term impacts on several commodity markets; this has

lead to resistance rom market actors who ear a growth in the use o biouels. Evidence o such market

impacts is however limited, and there is a lack o inormation on price correlations between biouels

and ood and lignocellulosic markets. Such inormation is needed to distinguish real rom perceived

market impacts o biouels. The ELOBIO project aims to help reduce the inormation gap by collecting

and reviewing the available data and developing low-disturbing policy options which promote biouels

with as ew side eects on other markets as possible.

Expected results> A clear vision on policy options. A vision o a policy with the least impact

on other markets which will be shared with policy makers and relevant

market actors rom the ood, eed and lignocellulosic materials markets.

> Optimised Member State policies on biouels and related domains. ELOBIO results

will be available to Member States and will help them improve their own policies.

They will clariy the important dynamics that dominate biomass markets.

> A reliable estimate o the potential and costs o biouels. The results will separate

act rom ction by providing scientically-based estimates o costs and potentials

which can then serve as base or uture discussions on biouels.

> Improved models and tools to assess the relationship between biouels policies

and the aected markets. The assessment o uture developments in the interaction

between the ood, eed, lignocellulosic will be more precise.

Budget: 1 040 383 (EU contribution: 50%)

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Stimulatingdemand orgas-poweredvehicles

COORDINATOR

Kommunrbundet Skne

(Skne Association o local authorities)

Mr Jon Andersson

+46 46719954

[email protected]

www.madegascar.eu

PARTNERS

Grazer Energieagentur GmbH, Austria

Steirische Gas-Wrme GmbH, Austria

Organic Power Ltd, United Kingdom

Berliner Energieagentur GmbH, Germany

Fundacin San Valero, Spain

Energetska agencija za Podravje

(Energy Agency o Podravje), Slovenia

SEVEn, StYedisko pro eektivn vyu~vn

energie, o.p.s., Czech Republic

Lithuanian Energy Institute, Lithuania

EC BREC Instytut Enrgetyki OdnawialnejSp. z o.o., Poland

Podkarpacka Agencja Energetyczna Sp. z o.o.,

Poland

Bourgas Regional Agency or Energy

Management, Bulgaria

Energy Agency or Southeast Sweden, Sweden

Energikontoret i Mlardalen AB

(Mlardalen Energy Agency), Sweden

sterreichische Energieagentur

(Austrian Energy Agency), Austria


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MArket DEvelopmento GAS-driven CARs includingsupply and distribution

o natural has and biogasMADEGASCAR

Duration: 9/20072/2010 (30 months)

ObjectiveMADEGASCAR sets out to increase the use o gas-driven vehicles, powered by both natural gas and

biogas, by addressing both consumers and providers.

Beore being prepared to change their vehicles consumers must be convinced o the advantages o

gas-powered cars. This project will promote the benets o such cars to feet owners, car dealers, local

authorities and uel station owners using training seminars and promotional campaigns.

The project will also look at increasing the supply o biogas and integrating it into gas networks. It will

undertake a series o activities designed to strengthen the supply and distribution inrastructure or

biogas and natural gas. These include plans or expanding uel stations and easibility studies or biogas

plants.

Expected results> Expansion o supply and distribution o gas uels including planning or the expansion/

establishment o uel station networks, easibility studies or biogas plants and promotion

o newly established uel stations.

> Promotion o gas-driven vehicles including seminars or feet managers,

training program or car purchasers and car dealers, promotional campaigns

at suitable events and easibility studies or car feets.

> One European and 10 regional networks made up o actors in the whole biogas chain.

> Market strategies or the promotion o gas as car uel in 12 regions o Europe.



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networks

COORDINATOR

Merseyside Passenger Transport Executive

Ms Suzanne Cain

+44 151330 1318

suzanne.cain @merseytravel.gov.uk

www.bionic-project.eu

PARTNERS

Transport & Travel Research Ltd, United Kingdom

Region Vrmland, Sweden

Primaria Municipiului Ploiesti (Ploiesti City Hall),

Romania

Fundacin Centro Tecnolgico en Logsta Integral

Cantabria, Spain

Lancashire County Council, United Kingdom

Ploiesti University o Petroleum & Gas, Romania

Regional Energy Agency o Pazardjik, Bulgaria

Fdration Europenne des Agences Rgionales

de lEnergie et de lEnvironnement(FEDARENE),

Belgium


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Biouels Networksin the CommunityBIONIC

Duration: 11/200710/2010

ObjectiveThe project will address the issue o biouel supply and use in transport specically rom the perspective

o local authorities. The project ocuses on ve participating regions North West England (United

Kingdom), Cantabria (Spain), Varmland (Sweden), Prahova (Romania) and Pazardjik (Bulgaria). The

aim o the project is to promote the regional production and use o transport biouels by establishing

regional networks, identiying and promoting case studies in each region, and subsequently developing

practical regional biouel strategies. Regional authorities will lead the way and, ultimately, everyone

in the chain, rom suppliers to end-users, will be involved in boosting biouels.

Expected results> Creation o networks o biouel suppliers and potential users in the participating regions.

> Strengthening biouel supply chains in each o the partner regions as a result

o greater awareness, availability and uptake o transport biouels.

> Establishment o best practice guidelines explaining the role o regional authorities

in promoting biouels in their areas and showing how to address the market barriers.

> Case studies to illustrate best practice.

> Creation o regional biouel strategies.



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The EACIs biouels video provides more inormation about biouels projects

across the EU. Find out more about the IEE-unded projects by watching

or ordering the video online at:

http://www.tvlink.org/vnr.cm?vidID=257.

IntelligentEnergy-Europe2008The 2008 call or proposals has been published. 45 million will be made available

to organisations across Europe to invest in intelligent energy projects.

Any public or private organisation rom the European Union, Iceland, Norway,

Liechtenstein and Croatia can and apply and EU unds can be used to cover

up to 75% o eligible project costs. The deadline or submitting applications

is 26 June 2008. Applications must be submitted online this year.

To nd out how to apply visit the website

http://ec.europa.eu/energy/intelligent/call_or_proposals/index_en.htm

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BiouelsTopping up the uel mixBiouels have an important role to play in ghting climate change and reducing Europes

dependence on external energy supplies. The Intelligent Energy-Europe programme is supporting

projects across the European Union and beyond to promote the development and use o these uels.

This brochure showcases 16 such projects.

The Intelligent Energy-Europe programme promotes energy eciency and renewable energy

in order to create a more energy-intelligent Europe. This series o reports provides examples o projects

unded by the programme in key areas. To nd out more about the programme visit the website

www.ec.europa.eu/energy/intelligent/index_en.html.

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