From agricultural waste through pellets and vine-branches, local governments have a wide range of options to satisfy their energy needs by making a transition to smart systems – saving millions annually by doing so. However, it is important what furnaces are fuelled with, where these materials come from and how the system is constructed. The topicality of biomass use and the energy management of local governments is reflected in the fact that almost a hundred participants were interested in the conference organized by ENERGIAKLUB and the Hungarian partners of the COACH BioEnergy project.

Short information about organisation of Policy Conference in Czech Republic

Energy Research Center at VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, organize at 5^th October in hotel Flora in Olomouc (Czech Republic) conference “Perspective of energetic use of biomass”. To this conference are invited all experts in this area, representatives of cities, state administration and companies.

The 1 MWe biogas plant in Třeboň, South Bohemia, is the first Czech biogas plant with significant supply of heat. The plant is situated about 2 km north from the town’s periphery and the input substrates are pig slurry and energy crops, mainly corn and grass silage.

The Czech Info Day took place on April 20, 2011 at the Congress Centre METROPOL, in České Budějovice, the regional capital of South Bohemia. The Info Day was organized by SEVEn in cooperation with the Czech Gas Association (Český plynárenský svaz), an association of firms active in the gas industry, at the occasion of the international conference BIOPLYN 2011 (Biogas 2011) with over hundred attendees. (see the conference program with the CBE logo)