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Promobio training week groupworksDevelopingbusiness ideas

Matti Virkkunen, VTT 10.04/2013

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• Location:

• Organisation and involved stakeholders:

• Already existing organisation structures (Supporters?):

• Legal form:

• Operation/business areas:

• Pictures of forest/ harvesting site/ heating plant

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Business idea (project title?)

• Proposed heat plant (nominal load [kW]? Technology?):

• Potential customers and annual heat demand [kWh]:

• Fuel demand [t/a, MWh/a, m3/a]:

• Location and storage area [m³]:

• Length of the distribution grid [m]:

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Heating plant

• Involved PFO‘s (Who are they?, Forest area in ha? Which kind of trees?) :

• Forest biomass potential [t/a] and catchment area [km]?:

• Which machinery for harvesting is needed? Are the machines available?:

• Is there enough workforce available?

• Verification of quality assurence:

• Form of the supply contract(s):

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Fuel supply

• Investment costs [€]:

• Costs of fuel supply [€/t]:

• Operating costs [€/a]:

• Feed-in tarifs?

• Revenues from end-user energy use?

• Funding possibilities (international, national, regional):

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Financial aspects

• Are there any specific regulations to be faced in target regions (e.g. legal

framework)?

• Which activities are planned next?

• Which are the possible drivers and restraints?

• Which support is necessary?

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Upcoming challenges and next steps

• Answering open questions.

• Postive aspects of the project idea?

• Where might the difficulties be?

• Suggestions for improvement?

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Feedback from the experts