Our Work: Tasks

The work of IEA Bioenergy is carried out through a series of Tasks, each having a defined work programme. 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 2004-2006, the work is structured into eleven Tasks. Task 35 which was active in the previous triennium will not continue. There are two new Tasks: Task 40 'Sustainable International Bioenergy Trade: Securing Supply and Demand' and Task 41 'Bioenergy Systems Analysis'. Most Tasks have a common duration of three years.

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

Task 29 : Socio-Economic Drivers in Implementing Bioenergy Projects
Task 30 : Short Rotation Crops for Bioenergy Systems
Task 31 : Biomass Production for Energy from Sustainable Forestry
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 and Landfill Gas
Task 38 : Greenhouse Gas Balances of Biomass and Bioenergy Systems
Task 39 : Commercialising 1st and 2nd Generation Liquid Biofuels from Biomass
Task 40 : Sustainable International Bioenergy Trade - Securing Supply and Demand
Task 41 : Bioenergy Systems Analysis
Task 42 : Biorefineries: Co-production of Fuels, Chemicals, Power and Materials from Biomass





 

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 participate fully. 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