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Figure 6: Concept of <strong>the</strong> possible coupling of <strong>the</strong> electricity, gas <strong>and</strong> district heating infrastructure in a futureenergy systemFinally, bottlenecks are expected to arise both as regards <strong>the</strong> suppliers of <strong>the</strong> resource <strong>and</strong> those that areto build <strong>the</strong> capacity required to h<strong>and</strong>ling <strong>and</strong> processing <strong>the</strong> biomass because of <strong>the</strong> aim to rely heavily onbiomass. As a result of this <strong>the</strong> risk of local or regional price increases cannot be disregarded.The futureThe future is here. We are well on our way to convert our facilities to using markedly increasing quantitiesof biomass <strong>for</strong> energy supply purposes. However, while we consume constantly increasing quantities ofbiomass <strong>for</strong> energy purposes, we need to remember that in view of our present knowledge, biomass is <strong>the</strong>only resource that can substitute oil in <strong>the</strong> chemical industry <strong>and</strong> also that biomass <strong>for</strong> energy purposescompete <strong>for</strong> <strong>the</strong> same areas to grow human food <strong>and</strong> animal feed.ConclusionBy way of conclusion, biomass is well on its way into <strong>the</strong> European energy supply, away from a marginal toa major role, <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> pace of many areas must change if <strong>the</strong> ambitious 2020 targets <strong>and</strong> <strong>the</strong> targets <strong>for</strong>subsequent years are to be fulfilled. Despite of this <strong>the</strong>re are discussions ahead of us that we need to gointo on <strong>the</strong> issues of sustainability <strong>and</strong> competition <strong>for</strong> areas <strong>for</strong> human food <strong>and</strong> animal feed.Risø International <strong>Energy</strong> Conference 2011 Proceedings Page 257

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