Lithuanian Biomass Energy Association (LITBIOMA)
Lithuanian Biomass Energy Association LITBIOMA was established in summer of 2003 and is currently comprised of 43 member. The association involves the producers and suppliers of solid biomass and other renewable local resources, such as wood, straw, energetic willows, peat, as well as the producers and designers of solid biomass boiler rooms and other equipment, developers of plantations and academic institutions. In order to strengthen the strategically important heat and electricity production and solid biomass market in Lithuania, the association is actively collaborating with various public institutions, organizing seminars, conferences, providing help to its members and safeguarding their interests. LITBIOMA holds a position to constantly participate in the flow of information, related to biomass energy industry worldwide.
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- Business Type:
- Professional association
- Industry Type:
- Bioenergy
- Market Focus:
- Globally (various continents)
- Year Founded:
- 2003
About us
In order to strengthen the strategically important heat and electricity production and solid biomass market in Lithuania, the association is actively collaborating with various public institutions, organizing seminars, conferences, providing help to its members and safeguarding their interests.
Companies belonging to the association are actively operating in the field of biomass production and supply: they are cultivating energetic plant plantations, producing various types of biofuel and all tools and equipment necessary for this activity.
LITBIOMA is dedicating a lot of attention towards implementation of innovations and investigative studies intended for more effective handling of local energy resources in Lithuania.
Mission
To promote wider utilisation of renewable energy resources (first of all – biomass) in energy production, while following the principles of coherency.
Vision
Lithuania, as a country where the major part of the consumed energy is produced from renewable energy resources.
Articles of Association
LITBIOMA membership may be awarded to any person possessing a citizenship of Lithuania or any legal person registered in the Republic of Lithuania, working in the field of biofuel production, supply or biofuel use propagation and accepted by the board’s decision in accordance with the order established by these Articles Of Association.
A member of the association is entitled to:
- receive information concerning the activity of the association;
- use the information accumulated by the association;
- participate during the discussions of all questions related to the activity of the organisation;
- receive help from the organisation when defending and representing his/her own lawful interests;
- elect and delegate his/her representatives to the administrative and control bodies of the association;
- dispute the resolutions of the general meeting of the members, the board decisions or the actions of the director (the head of the administration) in court;
- secede from the association.
A member of the association is obliged to:
- follow the provisions of Articles Of Association of the association, as well as the laws of the Republic of Lithuania;
- pay the membership fee in a timely manner;
- provide information to the database (databases) of the association;
- refrain from circulating the information that is acknowledged as confidential on the grounds of decisions taken during the general meeting of the members or by the board of the association;
- execute resolutions taken by the bodies of the association.
Renewable Energy Sources
According to the European Commission, the energy obtained from renewable energy sources in Lithuania amounts to 15 percent of the entire consumed energy. The EU Directive Regarding the Incentives for Consumption of Renewable Energy Resources has obliged Lithuania to increase this rate by 8 percent- from 15 to 23 percent until 2020.
Lithuania possesses enormous renewable energy sources that are being left to decompose without any benefit in forests, fields or communal waste dumping grounds. The available resources are not only sufficient for fulfilling the requirements provided for in the new EU directive, but also for surpassing them substantially.
In order to be able to produce energy, it is necessary to broaden the application of forest cutting residues, straw, municipal waste, to establish energetic plant plantations.
Wood Biofuel
The wood cutting and forest cleaning residues accumulated in Lithuanian forests is one of the most promising kinds of local fuel. According to LITBIOMA, the forest cutting residue potential amounts to about 1 million m3 per year. Such resources allow an annual energy production of 2152 GWh.
Straw, Perennial Grass Biofuel
About 2.4 million tons of straw are available every year in Lithuania but only a minor part is used for energy production. The economically reasonable straw potential amounts to 0.5 million tons which can lead to production of around 1500 GWh of energy.
Energetic Willow Biofuel
According to calculations performed by LITBIOMA, until 2013 Lithuania could establish 11 500 energetic plantations in its 400 000 ha of unused, infertile land. The biomass produced by these plantations could allow an annual energy production of 500 GWh.
Municipal Waste
Lithuania is among the few EU newcomers that are still polluting the environment with their municipal waste – leaving it to decompose on dumping grounds, instead of using it for energy production. At the moment there are more than 420 modern waste burning plants fitted for environmentally-friendly heat and energy production operating all around Europe.
By burning municipal waste, the amount of which in Lithuania reaches 1.3 million tons every year, it would make it possible to produce around 30 percent of centrally supplied thermal energy. By using the municipal waste for energy production in modern power stations, its amount on the country’s dumping grounds could be reduced by up to five times.