ZEFO – Zero Emission Forestry Worksite
KEY POINTS- Develops solutions that enable electric forestry machines to operate at remote and continuously changing worksites.
- Complete energy-supply pathways are evaluated and technically assessed, covering energy carrier production, transport, storage, transfer and use under real forestry operating conditions.
- Investigates how forestry business models, stakeholder roles and responsibilities must be adapted to support the transition to electrified forest operations.
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Global goals
- 7. Affordable and clean energy
- 9. Industry, innovation and infrastructure
- 12. Responsible consumption and production
- 13. Climate action
Short summary
ZEFO – Zero Emission Forestry Worksite aims to enable the transition to zero-emission forest operations.
The project investigates how electric forestry machines can be operated feasibly at remote and continuously changing worksites. It covers the complete energy chain, from energy carrier production and transport to energy transfer and use at the worksite, and aims to develop and demonstrate a promising system solution.
At BET, we focus on how energy can be supplied to forest worksites in practice. Different energy carriers and complete supply pathways are assessed and compared in terms of energy efficiency, emissions, costs, production constraints and logistical feasibility. Life-cycle assessment and spatial modelling are combined with operational and technical analyses to account for the realities of remote and continuously changing worksites. The work also includes the technical design of selected energy-supply concepts, examining how energy can be transported, stored and transferred to forestry machines under real operating conditions. The aim is to move from theoretical comparisons towards technically feasible solutions that can support practical development, testing and demonstration within the ZEFO project.
Furthermore, we investigate whether existing forestry business models can support the transition to electrified machinery and how they may need to be adapted; or potentially completely reimagined. This work considers both current and potential future stakeholders, as well as their roles and responsibilities within an electrified forestry system.