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Bioenergy as the Driver of Rural Areas Development in Russia
Nowadays renewable energy, especially bioenergy, is one of the most important priorities of the sustainable development. We investigate this question by case study of Russia, because Russia is the first in the world by the resources of biomass and forest. Also the country has problem in energy supplying in rural remote areas and it is connected with infrastructure. That is why, the authors investigate using of renewable forest resources for energy supplying in rural areas. In the same time, this aproach is activly investigate in the world science and many scientists resuming about effectivness of the development of bioenergy based on wood chips in rural areas. But in all these works the question of chips recycling in bioenergy is concentrated around logging waste mainly. From the authors’ point of view the most effective for processing is the combination of the chipper operations felling and debarking after preliminary hydrothermal treatment. The issues of low-quality wood utilization after sanitary and cleaning cuttings in forestry are not considered deeply. Mobile bioenergy generation units based on woodchips settle the complex of environmental, social, economic problems in rural areas, especially remote, and can become the driver of the region development in remote areas. Thus, the development of small bioenergy productions based on wood chips from low-quality wood in remote areas solves a set of strategic objectives and contributes to the sustainable development of the territory. Consequently, the implementation of wood chips-based bioenergy in remote areas has the complex multisectoral effect for the area economy, ecology (forestry) and social sphere and significantly stimulates territorial development.This approach is applicable in forested rural area all over the world.