Biofuels and combustion equipment of various types and sizes are becoming more and more standardized. The transactions between buyers and sellers are also to a great extent, regulated through standardized contracts. This indicates a more mature phase of the bioenergy business segment. This new phase is strongly anchored on the experience of countries like Sweden and a few others, which now pave the way to a larger dissemination of bioenergy options.

Bioenergy is becoming a mainstream alternative, and more of a standardized business chain characterized by its bulkiness and management complexity. In Sweden, and probably in most of Europe where energy markets are mature, econo­mies of scale are likely to become more important for the commercial attractiveness of the business. In contrast, the small-scale use of biomass, particularly in Swedish rural homes, will remain very competitive due to the low cost of fuel and difficult taxation of these privately generated services.