Policy, practice, and the future of bioenergy: highlights from Fuel Market Day 2025
On September 25, 2025, experts, policymakers, and industry leaders met in Stockholm and online for Svebio’s Fuel Market Day 2025. The conference, held under the theme “Navigating a changing world – Bioenergy as Europe’s growth and innovation engine”, explored how bioenergy and biomass are driving Europe’s energy transition while facing complex policy, market, and supply chain challenges.
As the EU’s largest renewable energy source, bioenergy provides 54% of renewable supply and avoids 300 million tonnes of CO₂ emissions annually. At Fuel Market Day 2025, discussions centered on market outlooks, sourcing trends, technology innovations, and the resilience of Europe’s biomass supply.
A central moment was the panel “Between Policy and Practice: Navigating EU rules shaping bioenergy markets,” part of the wider session Bioenergy Market Outlook: Trends, Innovations and Challenges. Jérémie Geelen, Market Intelligence Director at Bioenergy Europe, addressed the main challenges tied to EU bioenergy policies, from fragmentation and revisions to the challenges of long-term planning.
His presentation explored the implementation of REDIII across the EU and examined the Ecodesign Directive, LULUCF, and EUDR, focusing on practical aspects such as traceability, timing, and compliance risks.
Policy, Practice, and the Future of Bioenergy – Highlights from Fuel Market Day 2025 made clear that strong, coherent, and forward-looking policy frameworks are essential to unlock investment, scale up supply chains, and secure the role of bioenergy as a cornerstone of Europe’s net-zero strategy.
