With just over a week to go, the Nordic Pellets Conference 2025 is the first event on the international solid bioenergy event circuit. This year, it takes place in Stockholm, Sweden and a stand-out feature is the three conference site visits available to choose from.
Organized annually by the Swedish Bioenergy Association (SVEBIO), the Swedish Pellets Association (PelletsFörbundet), Bioenergi, and Bioenergy International, the 2025 edition of the Nordic Pellets Conference will be held on January 28-29, in Stockholm, Sweden.
Optional study tours as part of the conference are a hallmark of the organizers, and this year is no different with three to choose from although space is limited, and seats filling up fast.
It is winter, and as temperatures drop the heat plants come on. In the greater Stockholm region, there are several pellet-fired heat plants, two of which will be showcased during the Nordic Pellets Conference 2025 – one, Solnaverket, belonging to Norrenergi, and the other, Fittjaverket, belonging to Söderenergi – located north and south of the city respectively.
Both heat plants operate during the heating season typically from October/November to March/April supplementing the district heating grid. Both plants burn wood powder produced on-site by grinding the pellets.
Söderenergi’s Fittjaverket was converted from fossil fuel oil to operate primarily on wood powder in 2006. The two boilers have multifuel burners enabling them to operate on fossil oil, bio-oil (tall oil), and wood powder.
The last visit option is to a downtown showroom for pellet stoves from Austrian appliance manufacturer RIKA. Pellet stoves are gaining in popularity in Sweden, albeit from nascent sales volumes compared to other markets, as households- and housing associations see the benefit of a secondary heating source in homes heated using heat pumps.
Finally, the organizers wish to acknowledge the kind support of the event sponsors – Amandus Kahl (Kahl), Andritz, Mühlböck, and Salmatec – all well-known and respected technology suppliers in the global biomass pellet industry.
Together with other speakers in the two-day program, they will share insights and perhaps a tech revelation or two.
