Slovenian partners of the projects BioEnerGIS and Make-it-be organized joint event to present the results of both projects to the Slovenian stakeholders. Main result of the project BioEnerGIS is  BIOPOLE, which is the is the GIS (Geographic Information System) – based Decision Support System developed with the aim of combining supply and demand side, regional legislation, technological options, social acceptability and economical facts in order to produce maps of the optimal localization of new biomass plants. Besides the results of both projects also three good practices of biomass use in Slovenia were presented. Presentations in Slovenian language are available HERE.

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