The Investigation of Woodfuels’ Involvement in Green Energy Supply Schemes at Northern Greece: The Model Case of the Thrace Prefecture

The present study investigates the possibility of woodfuels’ involvement and its increased participation role in the energy grid of the Thrace prefecture. This issue comes as a response to the imperative legislative and environmental adaptations to EU regulations regarding the gradual independence from fossil fuels in the energy supply, in line to the dominant role of renewables’ exploitation in the energy sector at all the European countries. Addressing the involvement of woodfuels in the aforementioned energy sector of the Thrace prefecture is a controversial issue that necessitates a thoughtful balance of the advantageous and disadvantageous socio-environmental conditions that should accomplish a win-to-win situation in a social, political, economical and environmental level of analysis. Finally, the main counterparts of the proposed energy scheme are also addressed.