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Survey of Energy Resources 2007

Bioenergy Country Notes

According to recent data from the Forest Inventory and Management Institute, Lithuania’s forested land area is about 32% of the territory or about 20.9 thousand km². In 2005 the total consumption of firewood and wood waste was assessed as 3 616 thousand m³ or 708.7 thousand toe, the major share of which was firewood (569.3 thousand toe) used directly by final consumers and 144.2 thousand toe for production of heat in heating plants.

On 5 December 2001 the Government of Lithuania approved a regulation No 1474 Procedure for the Promotion of Purchasing of Electricity Generated from Renewable and Waste Energy Sources. The regulation promotes the use of biofuels for power generation and feed-in tariffs (€ 0.0579/kWh) are applied for the purchase of electricity generated by such power plants.

Production of biofuels (used as motor fuels) is increasing in Lithuania. In 2006, capacities of AB ‘Biofuture’ will increase from 16 000 to 21 000 tonnes of dehydrated ethyl alcohol (ethanol). A new company is being formed which will significantly increase capacity for the production of biodiesel (methyl ester from rape-seed oil) and vegetable oils. There are plans to process 300 000 tonnes of rape-seed and to produce about
115 000 tonnes of methyl ester.