{"id":20700,"date":"2019-01-30T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2019-01-30T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.guidaeuroprogettazione.eu\/european-bioenergy-farm-2-project-sustainable-energy-for-small-farms\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T17:06:42","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T17:06:42","slug":"european-bioenergy-farm-2-project-sustainable-energy-for-small-farms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/european-bioenergy-farm-2-project-sustainable-energy-for-small-farms\/","title":{"rendered":"European BioEnergy Farm 2 project: sustainable energy for small farms"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve always heard about the big <a href=\"https:\/\/euknow.it\/guida\/guida-europrogettazione\/programmi-comunitari\/horizon2020\/\">Horizon2020<\/a> projects but thought they were distant and inaccessible, it&#8217;s time to change your mind.<\/p>\n<p>We have already told you about <a href=\"https:\/\/euknow.it\/progetto-europeo-progireg-torino\/\">ProGIreg<\/a>, but that is not all!<\/p>\n<p>Very close to us-in our countryside and those of 6 other European countries, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioenergyfarm.eu\/en\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">BioEnergy Farm 2<\/a>, an interesting <strong>Horizon2020 project<\/strong> that combines <strong>research and agriculture<\/strong> by promoting sustainable energy production on small livestock farms, is being implemented.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>This is an important opportunity for our local organisations, characterized by a traditional presence of small farms and the combination of crop and livestock activities. <strong>Piedmont<\/strong> alone <strong>is home to<\/strong> <strong>about 1 million head of adult livestock<\/strong>, corresponding to 10 percent of the national livestock population. <\/p>\n<p>This operation has the<strong>University of Turin<\/strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.disafa.unito.it\/do\/home.pl\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">(Department of Agricultural, Forestry and Environmental Economics and Engineering<\/a>) and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.piemonte.coldiretti.it\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Coldiretti Piemonte<\/a> at the forefront, partners in a large European grouping led by the Dutch company <a href=\"http:\/\/www.cocos.nl\/en\/0\/ccs\/ccs_energieadvies.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Cornelissen Consulting Services<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The project makes a contribution to the ongoing debate regarding the feasibility of biomass and agricultural waste-fueled cogeneration plants. It focuses on small-scale technologies that are suitable for the needs of an individual farm, which can use its waste while reducing its environmental impact and <strong>increasing the economic benefits of farming<\/strong>. Seeing is believing!<\/p>\n<p><iframe title=\"BioEnergyFarm2 English video\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/1TMawafkp9w?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>More specifically, the project aims to assist 700 farmers in preparing feasibility studies and business plans for the<strong>installation of CHP plants<\/strong> at the individual farm level.<\/p>\n<p>The project website provides various <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioenergyfarm.eu\/en\/instruments\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">tools for guidance, information and self-assessment<\/a> (a bit like <a href=\"https:\/\/euknow.it\/\">our guidebook<\/a>!), supplemented by the possibility of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bioenergyfarm.eu\/en\/tool-scan\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">personalized support<\/a> provided by the project partners.<\/p>\n<p>The example provided by the project should pave the way for a wider and more generalized demand for <strong>CHP technologies<\/strong> among farmers, motivating the supply side to adapt with increasingly affordable and effective technologies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve always heard about the big Horizon2020 projects but thought they were distant and inaccessible, it&#8217;s time to change your mind. We have already told you about ProGIreg, but that is not all! Very close to us-in our countryside and those of 6 other European countries, BioEnergy Farm 2, an interesting Horizon2020 project that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":29903,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"inline_featured_image":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[731,2189],"tags":[2314,2328],"class_list":["post-20700","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-archive-archive","category-archive-stories","tag-experiences","tag-sector-agri-food-and-rural"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20700","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20700"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20700\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":34175,"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20700\/revisions\/34175"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29903"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20700"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20700"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/euknow.it\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20700"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}