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The Swedish wood fuel market

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  • Hillring, Bengt

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In Sweden, wood fuels are traditionally used in the Swedish forest products industry and for heating of single-family houses. More recently they are also become established as an energy source for district heating and electricity production. Energy policy, especially the energy taxation system, has favoured wood fuels and other biofuels, mainly for environmental reasons. There is now an established commercial market for wood fuels in the district heating sector, which amounts to 45 PJ and is growing 20 per cent annually. Price levels have been stable in current prices for a decade, mainly because of good access to wood fuels. Price levels are dominated by production costs on a market that is largely governed by the buyer.

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  • Hillring, Bengt, 1999. "The Swedish wood fuel market," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 16(1), pages 1031-1036.
    • Handle: RePEc:eee:renene:v:16:y:1999:i:1:p:1031-1036
    DOI: 10.1016/S0960-1481(98)00365-6
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    1. Gustavsson, Leif & Karlsson, Asa, 2002. "A system perspective on the heating of detached houses," Energy Policy, Elsevier, vol. 30(7), pages 553-574, June.
    2. Schipfer, Fabian & Kranzl, Lukas & Olsson, Olle & Lamers, Patrick, 2020. "The European wood pellets for heating market - Price developments, trade and market efficiency," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 212(C).
    3. Gustavsson, Leif & Madlener, Reinhard, 2003. "CO2 mitigation costs of large-scale bioenergy technologies in competitive electricity markets," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 28(14), pages 1405-1425.
    4. Hillring, B, 2003. "Incentives for co-firing in bio-fuelled industrial steam, heat and power production—Swedish experiences," Renewable Energy, Elsevier, vol. 28(5), pages 843-848.
    5. Brännlund, Runar & Marklund, Per-Olov & Sjöström, Magnus, 2001. "Evaluating market efficiency without price data. The Swedish market for wood fuel," Umeå Economic Studies 576, Umeå University, Department of Economics.
    6. Hillring, Bengt, 1999. "Regional prices in the Swedish wood-fuel market," Energy, Elsevier, vol. 24(9), pages 811-821.
    7. Leonel J. R. Nunes & Margarida Casau & Marta Ferreira Dias, 2021. "Portuguese Wood Pellets Market: Organization, Production and Consumption Analysis," Resources, MDPI, vol. 10(12), pages 1-24, December.

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