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Procurement and production of biofuels - a Finnish example of private entrepreneurship

Abstract

A conference paper. In Finland, heating entrepreneurship, i.e. supplying customers with heat energy from wood raw material, is a new form of rural enterprise. The entrepreneur is mainly responsible for supplying heat energy to municipal real estates in the form of chipped wood. He procures the fuel and supervises the heating plant and is paid on the basis of the amount of heat generated. The price of the supplied heat is usually bound to the price of light fuel oil, but agreements based on the price development of district heat and chips are also used. At the end of 1996 there were 36 examples of heating enterprises in Finland and about 20 new ones are planned to start in 1997. Twenty-nine of the operational targets supplied by heating-energy entrepreneurs were single-building heating plants and seven were district heating plants, all using oil for additional or reserve energy. Heating entrepreneurship provides extra income, especially for farmers, who have otherwise unmarketable potential fuelwood in their wood lot, underutilized timber harvesting equipment, experience of using fuel chips, and lack of supplementary income opportunities. 1 figure, 6 tabs.
Authors:
Publication Date:
Dec 31, 1997
Product Type:
Conference
Report Number:
NEI-NO-885; CONF-9710188-
Reference Number:
SCA: 093000; PA: NW-98:005027; EDB-98:037523; SN: 98001921127
Resource Relation:
Conference: Bioenergy `97: Nordic bioenergy conference on market, environment and technology, Bioenergi `97, Oslo (Norway), 7-8 Oct 1997; Other Information: PBD: 1997; Related Information: Is Part Of Bioenergy `97: Nordic Bioenergy Conference, market, environment and technology; PB: 205 p.; Bioenergi `97: nordisk bioenergikonferanse, marked, miljoe og teknikk
Subject:
09 BIOMASS FUELS; FINLAND; BIOMASS; HEAT; WOOD; RAW MATERIALS; PROCUREMENT; FUELS; DISTRICT HEATING
OSTI ID:
593627
Research Organizations:
Norsk Bioenergiforening, Oslo (Norway)
Country of Origin:
Norway
Language:
English
Other Identifying Numbers:
Other: ON: DE98737114; TRN: NO9805027
Availability:
OSTI as DE98737114
Submitting Site:
NW
Size:
pp. 131-140
Announcement Date:
May 15, 1998

Citation Formats

Tuomi, S. Procurement and production of biofuels - a Finnish example of private entrepreneurship. Norway: N. p., 1997. Web.
Tuomi, S. Procurement and production of biofuels - a Finnish example of private entrepreneurship. Norway.
Tuomi, S. 1997. "Procurement and production of biofuels - a Finnish example of private entrepreneurship." Norway.
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title = {Procurement and production of biofuels - a Finnish example of private entrepreneurship}
author = {Tuomi, S}
abstractNote = {A conference paper. In Finland, heating entrepreneurship, i.e. supplying customers with heat energy from wood raw material, is a new form of rural enterprise. The entrepreneur is mainly responsible for supplying heat energy to municipal real estates in the form of chipped wood. He procures the fuel and supervises the heating plant and is paid on the basis of the amount of heat generated. The price of the supplied heat is usually bound to the price of light fuel oil, but agreements based on the price development of district heat and chips are also used. At the end of 1996 there were 36 examples of heating enterprises in Finland and about 20 new ones are planned to start in 1997. Twenty-nine of the operational targets supplied by heating-energy entrepreneurs were single-building heating plants and seven were district heating plants, all using oil for additional or reserve energy. Heating entrepreneurship provides extra income, especially for farmers, who have otherwise unmarketable potential fuelwood in their wood lot, underutilized timber harvesting equipment, experience of using fuel chips, and lack of supplementary income opportunities. 1 figure, 6 tabs.}
place = {Norway}
year = {1997}
month = {Dec}
}