The major application of gasification is that the produced gas will be directly used for the generation of power(and heat). This can be either in stand-alone combined heat and power (CHP) plants or by co-firing of the produced gas in large-scale power plants. The installed power production capacity in the EU_25 countries is Approx. 700GWe in 2020 (based on an assumed growth rate of the power consumption of 2% per year). A target can be set to implement 10% of the growth of power production in the period between 2000 and 2020 with biomass-gasification plants.

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