Biomass Renewable Energy

In Europe, the use of biomass satisfies only a little part of energetic needs, compared with their potentialities.
Forefront in biomass exploitation for energy are North Europe Countries, with very big co-generating and districts heating plants powered with biomass. With the European greatest green area, France empower also biodiesel and ethanol productions used for fuelling, with a complete exemption from tax policy. Great Britain instead develops an unimportant biofuels production, considered profitless at the moment, and commits in a big and efficient system based on biogas recover from dumping ground, for electricity and heating. Sweden and Austria, with their long experiences in wood-burning, increase this employment for heating and district-heating, and evolve in copse wood plantations (willows, poplars), which have higher yield (3-4 times) than the average for the supply of raw materials. In the European reference frame, Italy has not a good develop, despite the his high potentials, that is not less than 27 Mtep!