The ENERGY BARGE team prepared a holistic and intuitive inventory on the biomass and bioenergy company landscape in the Danube corridor enabling identification of business partners along the bioenergy supply and value chain. Once integrated in the project’s online Danube biomass and bioenergy atlas, which will be launched in June 2018, it will serve as a business partner identification tool beyond the classical bioenergy value chain.

The Danube biomass and bioenergy atlas will generate a sort of “yellow pages” of the biomass-bioenergy actor landscape in the Danube region and shall be at disposal for all business actors looking for new partners in their own country or other Danube region countries, as well as for logistics actors looking for potential customers. The consortium identified 548 companies along the value chain in the seven partner countries. It will also be possible to register one’s own company in case it has not been listed by the project consortium before. Moreover, public actors shall benefit from the map and the information gathered therein by gaining comprehensive insight into their own national, regional, as well as transnational company situation.

The following company categories will be represented:

With a holistic view on the Danube partner countries, the following facts apply:
 • The wood sector and its supply chains are dominating the company landscape;
 • Processors are often traders as well, e.g. pellet production;
 • Companies working with dedicated energy crops are rare;
 • With regards to end users, the bioenergy market remains decentral.

For the detailed report about the situation of the biomass and bioenergy sector in the ENERGY BARGE partner countries, please have a look here.