ENERGY BARGE Building a Green Energy and Logistics Belt
The main objective of the project ENERGY BARGE is to exploit the potential for green energy in the form of biomass along the Danube river in a sustainable way, thereby increasing energy security and efficiency in the Danube countries, considering:
- the Renewable Energy Directive 2009/28/EC,
- the EU2020 climate goals,
- EU Danube Region Strategy’s objective.
An outstanding feature of the ENERGY BARGE project is its cross-sectoral approach: the project brings together key actors along the entire value chain, stakeholders from the bioenergy industry, Danube ports as well as relevant public authorities and policy stakeholders. This shall support transnational know-how transfer and cooperation.
ENERGY BARGE will build a platform for the exchange of experiences and best practices, extending the deployment of biomass for energy production in the Danube region.
Partners
There are 15 partners involved in the project from 7 countries:
- 7 partners from the biomass/bioenergy sector,
- 6 partners from the logistics sector including 5 ports,
- 3 partners from the field of research that provide either special knowledge needed for the implementation of the project or who have special knowledge and networks in their regions.
Focus on results
An increased use of Danube logistics will help to reduce emissions, to establish a low-carbon transport system and to improve the environment performance along the entire bioenergy value chains.
The project’s promotion of ports as locations for processing, handling and storage of biomass for energy production supports port development. To map value chains and facilitate market uptake of biomass for energy production in the Danube corridor the project will put great emphasis on disseminating the results of the project specifics and findings through newsletters, articles, news and interactive social media activities.
The project in particular contributes to the implementation of the action plans elaborated in Priority Area (PA) 2 “Energy” and PA 1a “Inland Waterways” of the EU Strategy for the Danube Region (EUSDR).
- Start date
- 01-01-2017
- End date
- 30-06-2019
- Budget in Euro
- Overall: 2,323,519.65
- ERDF Contribution: 1,974,991.67
- IPA Contribution: 0
- ENI Contribution: 0
- Call number
- Call 1
- Priority
- Better connected and energy responsible Danube region
- Specific objective
- Improve energy security and energy efficiency
Library
| Filename | Date of upload | |
|---|---|---|
| Danube transnational biomass and bioenergy atlas | 27-11-2018 09:06:02 | |
Project Partners
| Name | Type | Country | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Agency for Renewable Resources | Lead partner | t.fellenberg@fnr.de | Germany |
| BioCampus Straubing GmbH | ERDF partner | Ann-kathrin.kaufmann@biocampus-straubing.de | GERMANY |
| Deggendorf Institute of Technology | ERDF partner | Wolfgang.Dorner@th-deg.de | GERMANY |
| Austrian Waterway Company | ERDF partner | simon.hartl@viadonau.org | AUSTRIA |
| Port of Vienna | ERDF partner | rojko@hafenwien.com | AUSTRIA |
Project News
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ENERGY BARGE - Bioeconomy in the Danube region – ENERGY BARGE workshop & site visits
- 21-02-2019
On 19 March 2019, the ENERGY BARGE project organises a workshop on the biobased economy in the Danube region in combination with three site visits to Straubing, the “Region of Renewable Raw Materials”. The event will take place at the...
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ENERGY BARGE - Info brochure Modal Shift Platform
- 20-02-2019
The ENERGY BARGE modal shift platform aims to enable a better connected and interoperable environmentally-friendly transport system for bioenergy products along the Danube. The tool supports the provision of expertise on the transport,...
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ENERGY BARGE - Regional B2B meeting on bioenergy logistics in Vukovar
- 18-02-2019
The 4th ENERGY BARGE business-to-business (B2B) meeting on bioenergy logistics took place on 5 February in Vukovar, Croatia. The event that was jointly organised by the Croatian Wood Cluster and the Port Authority Vukovar started with a site...
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ENERGY BARGE - Bavarian Minister for Transport visits our project partner from Port of Straubing
- 15-02-2019
On Thursday, the Bavarian Minister for Transport, Dr. Hans Reichardt, visited our project partner Port of Straubing to learn about current performance but also about necessary future investments like the ones analysed in the ENERGY BARGE...
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ENERGY BARGE - Newsletter #21
- 13-02-2019
The 21st newsletter of the ENERGY BARGE project has been published. In this issue, we look back at the latest ENERGY BARGE workshops that were successfully held at the end of January in Budapest and at the beginning of this month in...
