Advancing the Role of Bioenergy in the Clean Industrial Deal

The Clean Industrial Deal should be designed to enhance the competitiveness of EU industry, while driving decarbonisation efforts. This will strengthen the EU’s position in manufacturing clean technologies such as bioenergy.

As emphasized by President Von der Leyen, legislative stability and predictability for investments and innovation are essential to drive clean industrial growth: the new Clean Industrial Deal needs to reflect that.

The bioenergy industry has shown remarkable resilience to external competition and will play a vital role in achieving a net-zero economy by 2050. The Clean Industrial Deal presents a crucial opportunity to further strengthen the domestic bioenergy manufacturing sector.

Therefore, it is essential that the bioenergy sector is explicitly addressed within the Clean Industrial Deal to ensure its potential is fully realised and integrated into the transition strategy.

Bioenergy Europe proposes 4 solutions to shape the next industrial strategy:

• Support bioenergy solutions in the decarbonisation of energy intensive industries to ensure a competitive transition from a fossil-based to a biobased economy
• Develop a bioenergy export strategy to build on existing European technological
  leadership and expertise, and boost EU industrial competitiveness
• Unleash the potential of bioenergy to lower energy costs for companies and households while ensuring a better system integration and more efficient use of resources
• Ensure regulatory stability to promote investment in renewable technologies and strengthen European manufacturing of clean solutions such as bioenergy