They represent all continents, and they show the diversity of the 
global bioenergy sector - from small-scale cooking technology for 
families in poor countries, to large-scale bio-refineries and pellets 
factories.
Here are some words from these distinguished nominees:

Pentti Hakkila, Finland:
"In retrospect, the most exiting part of the work was proving the huge potential to harvest almost any fraction of the above- and below-ground forest biomass in the form of chips at a reasonable cost."

Ralph E. H. Sims, New Zeeland:
"There is no doubt bioenergy will have a growing contribution to make to the low carbon  energy supply system".

D.R. Ranade, India:
"I envisage a very large number of biogas plants coming up in India and other Asian, African and Latin American countries owing to rich agricultural production".

Harry Stokes, USA:
"Since cooking represents 70 to 90 percent of the total energy demand in most poor countries, we need to give priority to developing clean liquid biofuels for cooking".

John Swaan, Canada:
"Densified bioenergy fuels such as wood pellets will see a 10-fold increase in production globally within the next 10 - 15 years."

Laércio Couto, Brazil:
"To participate in the advancement of silvicultural techniques to help supply the increasing demand of biomass for energy in Brazil and in the world, is a really exiting feeling".

Bernt Svensén, Sweden:
"We are going to see more biocombines delivering electricity, heat/cooling and biofuels".

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