ABSTRACT
The nature of national policies toward bioenergy can make or break the individual project. Agencies in some countries may have special policies and programs in the bioenergy area. An environment could be fatal to bioenergy planning—whenever cooperation is indeed essential to success. Informal one-sided conflict resolutions may involve high priorities that the consequences for a given bioenergy project will have been obvious from the start. There are two different ways of approaching potential goals for a national bioenergy program. One can concentrate on the fact that bioenergy in the form of traditional fuels is already a very large sector in many countries. Or one can stress the other aspect of the problem that is the use of modern biofuels to replace present commercial fuels or substitute for traditional fuels in some end uses. The present demand for fuels other than biomass energy and the costs of alternatives such as oil and hydropower will affect the viability of the project.
