Our Work: Tasks

The work of IEA Bioenergy is structured in a number of Tasks, which have well defined objectives, budgets, and time frames. The collaboration which earlier was focused on Research, Development and Demonstration is now increasingly also emphasising Deployment on a large-scale and worldwide. Each participating country pays a modest financial contribution toward administrative requirements, shares the costs of managing the Tasks and provides in-kind contributions to fund participation of national personnel in the Tasks. The scope of the work undertaken within IEA Bioenergy is shown below.

Each Task is led by one of the participating countries (Operating Agent) with technical effort co-ordinated by a Task Leader. The work is directed by the Executive Committee. For the period 2010-2012, there are 12 Tasks. Tasks 30 and 31, which were active in the previous triennium are replaced by a new Task: Task 43: Biomass Feedstocks for Energy Markets. All of the Tasks have a common duration of three years.

The ongoing Tasks and the recently discontinued Tasks are as follows:

Task 29 : Socio-Economic Drivers in Implementing Bioenergy Projects
Task 32 : Biomass Combustion and Co-firing
Task 33 : Thermal Gasification of Biomass
Task 34 : Pyrolysis of Biomass
Task 36 : Integrating Energy Recovery into Solid Waste Management
Task 37 : Energy from Biogas
Task 38 : Greenhouse Gas Balances of Biomass and Bioenergy Systems
Task 39 : Commercialising Liquid Biofuels from Biomass
Task 40 : Sustainable International Bioenergy Trade - Securing Supply and Demand
Task 41 : Project 3 - Joint project with the Advanced Motor Fuels Implementing Agreement
Task 42 : Biorefineries: Co-production of Fuels, Chemicals, Power and Materials from Biomass
Task 43 : Biomass Feedstocks for Energy Markets


The completed tasks are:
Task 16 : Tech. Assessment of Cellulosic Materials to Ethanol in Sweden
Task 18 : Conventional Forestry Systems for Bioenergy
Task 23 : Energy from Thermal Conversion of MSW and RDF
Task 28 : Solid Biomass Fuels Standardisation and Classification
Task 30 : Short Rotation Crops for Bioenergy Systems
Task 31 : Biomass Production for Energy from Sustainable Forestry
Task 35 : Techno-economic Assessments for Bioenergy Applications



 

IEA Bioenergy is keen to promote its work programmes within participating countries and to encourage increasing involvement of industrial partners. It also wishes to encourage further interest in its work from non-participating countries. All OECD countries are eligible to apply. In addition, the IEA Governing Board has decided that the Implementing Agreements may also be open to non-member countries. If you are interested in finding out more about IEA Bioenergy, please contact the Executive Committee Secretary