A new focus area is the integrated planning of electricity and heat production with biofuel production for the transport sector based on biomass and waste.

Within research and development in biomass and waste, most projects have related to the construction of new types of power stations and the introduction of biomass use at existing power stations. The research and development projects have actively supported the implementation of the 1993 biomass action plan according to which 1.2m tonnes of biomass (straw and wood chips) are to be converted into electricity and heat.

Research is being undertaken into the development of facilities to handle the process of combustion and gasification of biomass and waste in the most optimal way, and that requires new technologies.