Intervention FBE au Séminaire de l’Office franco-allemand pour les énergies renouvelables
Biogas in France and Germany
Current status
and development outlooks in France
12th February, 2014
Eric Vincent, Member of the Board, France Biomasse Energie
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Content
1. Presentation of the Syndicat des Energies Renouvelables and France Biomasse Energie
2. Biogas in France : current status and outlooks
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1. Presentation of the Syndicat des Energies Renouvelables (SER)
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• A professional organization gathering 400 members, from large
corporates to SMEs in 10 renewable energy sectors
Windpower, bioenergy (wood-energy, biogas, biofuels), solar PV,
thermal solar, concentrated solar power, hydro electricity,
renewable marine energy, geothermal).
• All along the value chain : equipments manufacturers, project
developers installers, EPC, O&M, developers, engineering firms,
clusters, development agencies, lawyers, banks, insurance
companies,…
• 20 permanent staff
• Our missions : represent the profession’s interests and promote
RES sectors to institutional actors
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Permanent staff
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Commission Chauffage au bois
domestique
Management Board Chairman : Jean-Louis BAL
Délégué général : Damien MATHON
Président Olivier GRELIER
(SUPRA) Responsable SER
Nicolas AUDIGANE
Commission Valorisation
énergétique des déchets ménagers
Président En cours de désignation
Responsable SER Sabrina FUSELIEZ
Commission Biomasse/biogaz
(FBE)
Président Cyril LE PICARD
(UCFF) Responsable SER Sabrina FUSELIEZ
Commission solaire photovoltaïque
(SOLER)
Président Arnaud MINE (Urbasolar)
Responsable SER Romain POUBEAU
Commission Eolienne
Président Jean-Baptiste
SÉJOURNÉ (GDF SUEZ)
Responsable SER Marion LETTRY
Commission Hydroélectricité
Président Jean-Charles
GALLAND (EDF) Responsable SER Antoine DÉCOUT
Commission Energies Marines
Président Jacques JAMART
(ALSTOM) Responsable SER Antoine DÉCOUT
Commission Solaire thermodynamique
Président Roger PUJOL
(CNIM) Responsable SER Antoine DÉCOUT
Pôle Système électrique - stockage
Président Jean-Louis BAL
Responsable SER Alexandre
COURCAMBECK
Commission Régions Ultra-
Marines
Président Jérôme BILLEREY
(Quadran) Responsable SER Romain POUBEAU
Pôle Communication
Président Jean-Louis BAL
Responsable SER Françoise JOUET
et Damien MATHON
Internal SER Commissions organization chart
Biomass, 3 commissions + working groups depending on the course of events
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Commission France Biomasse Energie (FBE)
Président : Cyril LE PICARD Vice-présidents : Pierre DE MONTLIVAULT
/ Marc LAUR, Sébastien COUZY, Jean-Henri CULERIER
Pôle Réseaux électriques - Bioénergies
Responsable SER : Alexandre COURCAMBECK
Commission Valorisation énergétique des déchets ménagers Président : En cours de désignation
Commission Chauffage au bois domestique
Président : Olivier GRELIER Vice-présidents : Hervé MICONI
Et David VIOLAN
GT Qualité de l’air & émissions
Responsable : Serge POSTEL et Aymeric DE GALEMBERT
GT Bâtiment & RT Responsable :
Olivier GRELIER
GT Qualification de la filière Responsable :
Thierry MALLEREAU
GT Nomes, DTU, DTA & Atec Responsables :
Thierry MALLEREAU, Serge POSTEL et Olivier GRELIER
GT Granulés de bois Responsable: Hervé MICONI
GT Flamme Verte Responsable : David VIOLAN
Responsable SER : Sabrina FUSELIEZ Responsable SER : Sabrina FUSELIEZ Responsable SER : Nicolas AUDIGANE
Bioenergy sector organization chart
Management Board Chairman : Jean-Louis BAL Director: Damien MATHON
Head of bioenergy department : Sabrina FUSELIEZ
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- Sectors : Wood for energy, solid fuels, biogas, biofuels
- Field: Heat, electricity, fuel
- Industry, collective housing, tertiary (from upstream to downstream)
- FBE’s objectives :
o Unite the bioenergy actors in order to implement measures aimed at
ensuring an optimal development of the sector and of all companies along
the value chain
o Remove bottlenecks in order to ensure a sustainable development of he
sector
o Establish links between the various lines of business among forestry,
agriculture and energy sectors in order to develop dynamic industrial sectors
and to promote the use of biomass for energy
FBE activity fields
Organization of a yearly symposium : « Colloque national biomasse » 2014 : 1st and 2nd July in Paris (Cœur Défense)
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2. Biogas market in France Current status and outlooks
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The biogas value chain
Source : GDF SUEZ 10
Current status
3TWh Flared gas
4 TWh NS
Only 60% of the biogas is recovered, mainly through heat and electricity generation 578 gas treatment installations (2013) among which 246 produce electricity (1.3 TWh in 2012) 3 injection units operating as of end 2013
France produced 0.45 Mtoe or 7 TWh ie 5% of European biogas (2012)
Industries
Farms
Centralized
Municipal waste/ organic part
Landfills
Water treatment stations
Breakdown of biogas generation by source in 2010 (Origin : ADEME) 11
A huge potential
2020 and 2030 outlooks
In 2020, the French market could reach according to ADEME 12 TWh or 0.75 Mtoe out of which :
- 5 TWh would be transformed into heat/electricity (+20%/2012)
- 1 TWh would remain untransformed (flared gas)
- 6 TWh would be transformed into biomethane and injected on the gas network
In 2030 the sector could provide as much as 15% of the French gas consumption (ADEME) or 17%
(GrDF)
France has many reasons to support the take-off of biogas production and transformation.
Biogas :
- provides a baseload power generation which helps mitigating intermittent renewable effect
on networks and strengthening security of supply
- contributes to the country’s energy autonomy and to stabilizing the balance of trade
- brings outlets and new sources of income to agriculture and to industrial sectors : valuation
of waste (ADEME forecasts 132 million tons of eligible inputs in 2030, mainly from the
agricultural sector), generation of fertilizers
- develops local non transferable employment
- contributes to the renewable energy generation targets
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Recent measures in favour of biogas
Since 2006 the French Government issued a series of measures aimed at supporting the
development of biogas
Definition of ambitious long term objectives for the sector development in 2020
- Electricity : 625 MWe installed or 4 230 GWh (x 4/ 2009),
- Heat generation : 555 Ktoe (x 7/ 2009)
Upgrading of feed-in tariffs for biogas-based electricity generation (2006 and 2011)
Creation of a biomethane injection feed-in tariffs, with a gradual extension of eligible installations
(from 2011) and setting-up of market mechanisms (guarantees of origin, offset mechanisms)
Lightening of project development permission procedures : from 2010, projects with input
injection below 50t/day are subject to the “enregistrement” ICPE procedure (no environmental survey
requested) and not to a full authorization process
EMAA Plan (2013) calling for the development of 1,000 « on farms » methanisation plants in 2020.
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A market dynamic is starting
242 cogeneration projects identified by ADEME between 2011 and 2013
Source ADEME juillet 2013
Cumulated installed capacity (MW)
Cumulated installation number
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But be careful because the way is still long to achieve all of them and the rest of potential
A market dynamic is starting
3 biomethane injection projects entered in operation in 2013
Lille-Sequedin, grid injection + gas procurement to buses fleet
Forbach-Methavalor, grid injection + bioGNV production
Chaume-en-Brie, in-farm prject 125 Nm3/h
11 new projects to start in 2014
More than 350 projects under study by GrDF
Biomethane injection is starting taking-off
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The way is still long…
Actual electric generation Target 2020
Comparison between targeted (2020) and actual biogas-based electricty generation (GWh)
Source : Observ’ER 2013 (from SOeS data)
The 6 TWh target for biomethane injection
in 2020 assumes that in average 30 to 35
projects with an average production
capacity of 20 GWh/y are completed yearly.
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The question of inputs (« intrants ») is key : existing thresholds on several types of waste create a competition bias with some neighbouring countries and reduce the scope of possible projects
Need for widening the authorized inputs list and raising thresholds Digestates do not currently benefit from a legal normalisation and certification allowing their sale on the
market Need to tackle that question in order to improve projects revenues and sustainability assuming that the impact of spreading on soils is carefully taken into account The increase of the average size of the projects linked to the emergence of injection projects, evidences the
complexity of the development process : complexity of the ICPE process, lengthy permitting procedures (> 2 to 3 years) whereas the project developers face an increasing need to gather local actors (farmers, industries, municipalities,…)
Need for simplification measures and delays reduction SER supports the ongoing “unique authorization” project studied by the Government
…and several improvements are requested by professionals
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Feed-in tariffs are hardly sufficient to ensure project viability and bankability whereas those projects are also
supported by ADEME direct support (« Fonds déchet » )
Should the ADEME contribution be reduced over the next few years, an increase of feed-in tariffs should be considered
Access to financing is difficult as raw material procurement needs to secured over the projects lifetime
SER works with BPI France in order to improve the financial models of biogas projects
Carbon tax will affect biogas and biofuels (voted in financial bill for 2014)
SER thinks it’s a real aberration and mobilize in order to cancel that decision in the future
…and several improvements are requested by professionals
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Reasons for hope…
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203020202010 2040..
Méthanisat ion de déchets
Gazéif icat ion de biomasse
Micro-algues
Hydrogène &
Méthanat ion
30 TWh
210 TWh
150 TWh
19-33 TWh
Potent iel
technique
440 TWh•Sources
Méthanisation : étude AFNGV/ADEME Hydrogène : scénario ADEME / scénario Negawatt
Gazéification/ micro-algues : étude GrDF/MEDDE/MAAF/MEF
400-550
TWh
20-35
TWh
10 -25
TWh
160-280
TWh
210
TWh
Progressive
development
Technical potential
Long term perspectives 100 % decarbonized gas
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Thank you for your attention
SER-FBE contact : Sabrina FUSELIEZ, Head of bioenergy department
tel : 01.48.78.56.12 / e-mail : [email protected]
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