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 : sabrina.fuseliez@enr.fr

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