As one of the largest wood pellet market, Swedish currently consumes over 20% of the world’s wood pellets. The utilization of wood pellets in Sweden started in the 1980s when the fossil fuel were converted into biofuels. Then in 1991, the carbon dioxide tax was introduced in Sweden which made the fossil fuel more expensive and further to bring an opportunity for biomass pellets to boom quickly. In Sweden, 40% wood pellets are used in large scale district heating plants and CHP plants, and the other 60% are used for single household heating and some power plants. In 2008, about 120,000 households had pellet boilers and 20,000 
households had pellet stoves. Well, the figures increased during last 4 years.
In 1997, the annual consumption of wood pellets was 494,000 tons, while in 2008, 11 years later, the annual wood pellets consumption reached 1,850,000 tons, about four times of the consumption in 1997. And the demanding of wood pellets in latest years is still increasing, the annual growth is about 8% to 10% percent according to estimation. In 2011, the Swedish wood pellet consumption amounted to about 1.7 million tons.
As there are 26.42 million hectare forests in Sweden, the raw materials for producing biomass fuel are rich. Every year about 16.52 million m3 wood residues are used for biofuel production. And the raw materials used in wood pellet production are in a wide range from sawdust, shavings, wood chips to other forestry by- products. In Sweden, there are about 94 companies in different sizes specialized in producing wood pellets. According to statistics, pellet production in 1995 was 400,000 tons, then 780,000 tons in 2001, 870,000 tons in 2003, the pellet production was increased to 1,458,000 in 2006, then there was a decrease in 2007 and 2008, the wood pellet production was 1,400,000 tons annually.
Though Swedish itself has big wood pellets production capacity, it is still a large wood pellet importing country due to the 
enormous demand in Sweden market. During 2003 to 2008, Sweden imported about 300,000 to 400,000 tons of wood pellets annually from countries like Canada, Poland, Finland and other countries.
Though according to the latest news, the Swedish wood pellets consumption and production both experienced a fall due to the milder weather, the Swedish wood pellet market will still be vast in the years to come for the enormous demand in Swedish residential sector.
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