Periodic Meeting and AGM: 15 Sept 2016, Canberra
- Meeting Agenda
- Attendees
- ARENA Update – Amy Philbrook for Dom Zaal
- Australian Biomass for Bioenergy Assessment – project update and demo, Julie Bird, Julie Bird Consulting/RIRDC
- Proposal for a Biomass Removal Bushfire Mitigation Strategy – Better fire-proofing country towns, Gavin Matthew, Australian Forest Products Association
- Securing Assured Feedstocks from Wastes, Residues and By Products – Mark Glover, Ecowaste
- Waste-to-Energy Innovations Powering a Circular Economy – Bernadette McCabe, National Centre for Engineering in Agriculture, USQ
- Breaking the Food vs Fuel Nexus: New leaf oil technology for sustainable, intensified production of bio-based fuels – Thomas Vanhercke, CSIRO
- Biomass Producer website update
- Bioenergy Industry Developments – Steve Schuck (BA)
IEA Bioenergy – Participation and Updates:
- Update on ARENA Funding Agreement and Australia’s participation in IEA Bioenergy – Steve Schuck
- Task 37 Energy from Biogas – Bernadette McCabe
- Task 38 Climate Change Impacts of Biomass and Bioenergy Systems – Annette Cowie
- Task 39 Commercialising Conventional and Advanced Liquid Biofuels from Biomass – Steve Rogers (for Les Edye)
- Task 42 Biorefining in a Future Bioeconomy – Geoff Bell
- Task 43 Biomass Feedstocks for Energy Markets – Mark Brown