Bioenergy - The Swedish Experience

How did bioenergy become larger than oil use in Sweden? It's been an amazing transformation of an energy system heavily dependent on imported oil in the 1970s to today where bioenergy use is more than oil, and bioenergy is growing constantly and oil is shrinking! A new book tells the Swedish bioenergy success story - order a copy - how it all came about, and how bioenergy is used in different sectors of the Swedish society. The book gives an overview of how biomass is produced and harvested, and how it is refined into fuels. Behind the growth of bioenergy in Sweden are factors like the carbon dioxide tax, introduced in 1991, a consistent political support for renewable energy, and the strong forestry sector.