National support schemes in Europe now make it easier and more affordable for consumers to replace old fossil-fuel-based appliances (or outdated ones running on biomass) with modern pellet boilers and stoves. This article provides an overview of the available support in various European countries.
We go on a trip north to meet our next collocutor. Anders Haaker from Svebio will tell us what is happening in the Swedish pellet market at the moment, what role ENplus® plays in it and what the future holds.
Modern pellet appliances have many advantages in comparison to their older versions. To learn how the technology has evolved and get the latest news about the pellet boilers and stoves, we have the pleasure to meet today with Wim Vanlede from RIKA Belgium and Karel Van Wonterghem representing ÖkoFEN Belgium.
The Market Surveillance Project is an initiative aiming at analysing ENplus® certified bags of pellets randomly taken from the market in order to assure compliance with the ENplus® standards.
For our last interview before the summer break we decided to meet a certified pellet producer and learn about the value of certification and quality from their perspective. It is a pleasure to introduce to you Marta Szukalska who’s representing the Polish pellet producer Przedsiębiorstwo Produkcyjno – Handlowe DANKROS Sp. z o.o..
Our conversations with interesting people from the pellet market continue with a visit to Poland – one of the countries with the biggest increase in producing and consuming premium pellets over the past few years. We are about to learn more on the topic from Agnieszka Kędziora-Urbanowicz from the Polish Pellet Council.
The world-leading certification scheme to guarantee high-quality wood pellets, ENplus®, reports 13.3 million tonnes of certified pellets in 2022, while the certified production this year is projected to surpass 14 million tonnes*.
This month we go north to visit Latvia and talk with Didzis Palejs from LATbio. The biomass association has been promoting the use of biofuels for about 15 years, while Didzis Palejs is a board director of the European Pellet Council for a few years now, so we know we can expect some useful insights.
Even though spring is slowly approaching with warmer weather, pellets remain our hot topic. Today, we’ll have the pleasure to learn a bit more about the situation in the Czech Republic. Our guest is Vladimír Stupavský from the Czech Pellet Cluster.
To address a series of misleading claims about the ENplus® certification scheme made in recent media publications, the ENplus® Management would like to clarify and explain the following: