Lithuanian Biomass Energy Association

Lithuanian Biomass Energy Association LITBIOMA was established in summer of 2003 and is currently comprised of 56 members. The association involves the producers and suppliers of solid biofuel and other renewable local resources, such as wood, straw, energetic willows, peat, as well as the producers and designers of biofuel boiler rooms and other equipment, developers of plantations and academic institutions. 

In order to strengthen the strategically important heat and electricity production and biofuel 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 biofuel 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.

Section objectives and their implementation plan:

Biofuel market development:

• Explanatory work in municipalities, public institutions;
• Spread of information concerning biofuel via media services, participation in conferences, seminars, exhibitions;
• Collaboration with heat energy producers.

Increasing the resources of raw biofuel materials. Increasing the role of forest biomass:

• Participation in processes of legal forest handling basis creation. Cooperation with Forest Owners Association of Lithuania (FOAL), Directorate General of State Forests (DGSF), Lithuanian Forest Research Institute (LFRI) etc.;
• Development of forest cutting, biomass resource mobilization technologies;
• Mobilization of biomass resources from regional parks, roadsides, melioration trenches etc.;
• Cooperation with relative associations;
• Initiation and implementation of scientific studies related to the biomass market;
• Promotion of energetic plantation establishment: 
  - Enlargement of the list of cultures – legalisation of additional plant species; 
  - Removal of existing restrictions.

Promotion of biofuel production. 
Biomass preparation encouragement among the private forest owners:

• State support scheme for supplying biomass for biofuel production;
• Better accessibility to EU support for biofuel companies.

Biofuel consumption propagation in the neighbouring countries:

• Spread of information concerning biofuel via media services, participation in conferences, seminars, exhibitions.