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 | |
|---|---|---|
| ENERGY BARGE Modal Shift Platform | 03-04-2019 15:42:42 | |
| 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 - Biomass as a new cargo type in the MAHART-Freeport
- 17-04-2019
MAHART-Freeport Co. Ltd. is a state-owned company that was established in 2005. It is the owner of the land, main infrastructure and part of the buildings of the Freeport of Budapest, which is the largest Danube port in Hungary. The port can...
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ENERGY BARGE - Newsletter #23
- 10-04-2019
The 23rd newsletter of the ENERGY BARGE project has been published. In this issue, we take a look back on the fifth and final ENERGY BARGE business-to-business meeting that was conducted in the SENNEBOGEN Academy in the Port of Straubing....
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ENERGY BARGE - Fifth and final business-to-business meeting in Straubing
- 05-04-2019
On 20 March 2019, 70 international experts in multimodal logistics met at the Sennebogen Academy in the Port of Straubing-Sand under the title "Danube logistics meets growing markets: B2B Forum for biobased and high & heavy cargo". The focus of...
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ENERGY BARGE - Save the date - ENERGY BARGE final conference in Budapest
- 04-04-2019
On behalf of the ENERGY BARGE project consortium, we would like to cordially invite you to attend the final conference on 23 May 2019 in Budapest, Hungary. During the conference, strategies and recommendations to improve energy security...
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ENERGY BARGE - Poster presentation at the conference Agrárium 2019
- 02-04-2019
The Agrárium 2019 professional conference was held on 7 March 2019 in Kecskemét, Hungary. The conference is one of the most important events of the spring season in Hungary, which provided information on the use of agricultural and rural...
