Michael WildMichael Wild, economist and engineer by education, is active in renewable energies for practically all of his 20+ years professional career.

Working as consultant in Austria he was involved in building energy advisory services in the mid 1980s and conducted consultancy in Energy Saving, Renewable Energies for Building and Heating sectors and from the late 80s started to implement biomass based district heating systems in rural communities in Austria.

With the fall of the iron curtain he started consulting decision makers in Hungary and Czechoslovakia which lead to his nomination as director of the EU Commissions Energy Centre in Slovakia from 93 to 99. Business to business projects in the energy sector, many of those in the renewable field. In parallel consulting World Bank and IFC to their Energy projects in this geographical area.

Gaining the experience that Biomass projects fail almost never for technical or financial reasons but mostly on the insufficient security of biomass supply he started as early as 1997 to build first simple “information turntables” for biomass trading which lead in 1999 to the establishment of ABEX, the first web based trading platform for Biomasses.

Seeing still insufficient move on the biomass market he lead ABEX and its successor EBES AG into regional/interregional large scale trading of biomasses implementing the first transcontinental supply schemes from Asia to Europe.

Today he is developing EBES step by step into an integrated bioenergy supply company.

Biomass Trade & Power 2010 Rotterdam Speaker
Day 3 – Friday, March 12
11:35  Torrefaction – Accelerated Carbonised Biomass, the Optimal CO2 Neutral Substitute for Coal

BIOMASS TRADE & POWER 2010 conference guarantees insights on maximizing potential of biomass feedstocks for power, biofuels & chemicals production from palm biomass, sugar cane bagasse, cassava waste, rubber wood residues, rice husk, saw dust and algae.

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