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This chapter concludes main economic and price aspects along international pellet supply chains. These are reflected by actual framework conditions in the market and interconnections between several supply patterns and related economic impacts. Consequent securing strategies for supply agreements are provided. For example, these are fixing prices over contract period, price adjustments for inflation and exchange rate sensitive prices, financial hedging, diversifying supply and sales markets, and flexible allocation of biomass volumes via supply and demand networks. Finally, the need for further market monitoring and data research is identified to support more reliable biomass markets.
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Ehrig, R., Behrendt, F., Wörgetter, M., Strasser, C. (2014). Conclusions. In: Economics and Price Risks in International Pellet Supply Chains. SpringerBriefs in Applied Sciences and Technology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-07016-2_6
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