Vision	By 2010 biomass will be recognised and widely adopted as a sustainable resource for producing energy, transportation fuels, chemicals and other value added products.
Mission	Bioenergy Australia will play a key role in attaining this vision by promoting biomass as a sustainable energy source. This will be done by facilitating business and project opportunities and acting as the focus and forum in Australia for bioenergy and biomass development.

Bioenergy Australia was established in 1997 to foster and facilitate the development of biomass for energy, liquid fuels, and other value added bio-based products. Its founders were a core of Federal Government organisations with the objective of providing the focus and a forum for bioenergy development in Australia. Since its formation the membership of Bioenergy Australia has been expanded to over forty members from both Government and Industry (see back page for membership list). Bioenergy Australia is concerned with all aspects of biomass and bioenergy, from production through to utilisation, and its work embraces technical, commercial, economic, societal, environmental, policy and market issues.

• Government legislation, policy and programs
• Global and local environmental benefits
• Premium pricing for renewable energy
• Biomass can potentially provide a significant proportion of future energy needs
• Need for better waste management
• Jobs and industry, particularly in rural and regional areas
• Export opportunities for bioenergy products and services.

Bioenergy Australia will assist the development of bioenergy and bio-based products in Australia through the following objectives:

1. Promote an awareness and understanding of the economic and environmental attributes of sustainable energy and chemicals from biomass.
2. Broaden the market for biomass by enhancing opportunities, and by helping to reduce financial, regulatory, fuel supply, environmental, technical and institutional barriers, to enable widespread adoption of biomass energy.
3. Facilitate the development and deployment of biomass energy business opportunities and projects.
4. Broaden the support base for Bioenergy Australia to ensure its continued role in promoting biomass energy in Australia.

Promote an awareness and understanding of the economic and environmental attributes of sustainable energy and chemicals from biomass.

Strategies

• Maintain sound information and knowledge of bioenergy technologies, resources, markets, key industry participants, environmental, economic, social, and institutional issues, and an awareness of national and international bioenergy activities.
• Disseminate information on bioenergy and bio-based products, their status of development, characteristics and benefits to targeted customer audiences and stakeholders.
• Raise the profile of biomass and bioenergy.

Activities

• Assemble information through direct contacts and meetings, site visits, the media, Internet, attendance at conferences and symposia, and involvement in the industry.
• Convene and form Australian groups to participate in Tasks of the International Energy Agency's Bioenergy program.
• Provide submissions and participate in forums to disseminate information on bioenergy.
• Issue a quarterly Bioenergy Australia newsletter and maintain a web page.
• Convene and organise an annual Bioenergy Australia conference.
• Liaise and interact with Government policy makers and shapers, local government, Green and community groups, forestry, farmer and industry bodies and potential bioenergy industry participants and other stakeholders.
• Gain media attention for biomass and bioenergy.

Performance Indicators

• Level of contact with stakeholders.
• Level of participation in the IEA Bioenergy program.
• Response to Bioenergy Australia newsletters.
• Response to Bioenergy Australia conferences.

Broaden the market for biomass by enhancing opportunities, and by helping to reduce financial, regulatory, fuel supply, environmental, technical and institutional barriers, to enable widespread adoption of biomass energy.

Strategies

• Address market structure and barriers to the widescale uptake of bioenergy.
• Encourage participation of bioenergy in Green Power and mandated markets.
• Support short and long term market opportunities for biomass energy.
• Facilitate synergies that link bioenegy, cogeneration and carbon credits.

Activities

• Provide a point of contact for information on market conditions, industry participants, project opportunities, resource supplies and markets, technologies, and sources of funding relating to bioenergy.
• Make submissions and representations to government and regulatory authorities to enhance the prospects and conditions for biomass energy development.
• Report industry activities and developments for the evolving market.
• Provide an Opportunities Corner in the Bioenergy Australia newsletters to provide contacts and linkages for market entry.

Performance Indicators

• Level of contact with industry, government and regulatory bodies.
• Availability and usefulness of market and industry related information.
• Level of market development activities

Facilitate the development and deployment of biomass energy business opportunities and projects.

Strategies

• Foster alliances between industry participants and stakeholders to help realise project and business opportunities.
• Foster Australian export opportunities for bioenergy products and services.
• Facilitate bioenergy opportunities supporting the Commonwealth's requirement for an additional 9,500 GWh electricity from new renewables and specified wastes by 2010 and tripling the national plantation estate by 2020.

Activities

• Support members in developing their bioenergy businesses and projects with information and other assistance.
• Encourage collaborative R&D to improve commercial availability of biomass conversion technology in Australia.
• Provision of contacts and information to prospective industry participants.

Performance Indicators

• Number and size of biomass energy projects being planned, assessed or under construction.
• Extent of interaction with project proponents.

Broaden the support base for Bioenergy Australia to ensure its continued role in promoting biomass energy in Australia.

Strategies

• Promote the benefits of involvement and participation by government bodies, industry and industry associations, waste management organisations, forestry organisations, energy companies, financiers and research organisations in Bioenergy Australia.
• Expand the diversity of membership from both the public and private sectors on Bioenergy Australia.
• Have Bioenergy Australia recognised and valued as the primary forum for bioenergy development in Australia.

Activities

• Develop a tiered membership structure and promotional material to encourage membership of Bioenergy Australia.
• Work with the existing membership to provide ongoing benefits and to gain continued support for Bioenergy Australia.
• Raise the profile of Bioenergy Australia through its newsletters, web site and interaction with prospective members and stakeholders.

Performance Indicators

• Differentiated membership and fee structure of Bioenergy Australia.
• Availability of an information pack and promotional material.
• Level and extent of contact with the industry and stakeholders.
• Number of organisations participating in Bioenergy Australia.

Dr Stephen Schuck
Bioenergy Australia Manager
7 Grassmere Road
Killara NSW 2071
Australia

Tel/Fax: (02) 9416 9246
Email: sschuck@bigpond.net.au
Web: http://www.users.bigpond.net.au/bioenergyaustralia