Welcome to the ASTWOOD Project
Agreement number EIE/06/191/SI2.448381, December 2006 - December 2008
A Strategy for the sustainable use of wood and its implementation as base for legislative measures on regional level.
Modern heating systems working on pellets/wood chips are not implemented in some European countries as e.g. Spain, Portugal, Bulgaria, although the potential of source is very large. The reasons are several. Therefore, a group of municipalities in Extremadura, bordering with Portugal, aims to develop a strategy paper which will serve as a base for implementing a legal frame work on political level for enhancing the use of biomass for pellet or chip production and their use in modern heating systems on domestic level, overcoming barriers. Portugal and Bulgaria will join this initiative with the implementation of the strategy and the technology demonstration in several municipalities. The Austrian partner will transmit its experience in the area of wood, pellets, and heating systems to enable the establishment of good practices. The developed strategy will be available for replication in any other European country.
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