BIOENERGY 2020+ GmbH offers research, development, demonstration and other services in the field of biomass to energy to its customers. Part of its activities are executed as K1 centre of excellence, where the centre focusses on pre-competitive, industry related research funded through the COMET programme. The centre's research activities cover all relevant technologies for the efficient and environmentally friendly provision of fuels, heat and power from biomass. In addition, the centre also researches options for the industrial, non-energy use of biomass, e.g. the production of primary products for the chemicals industry. BIOENERGY 2020+ is organised into four areas. Three of them represent the technological fields of expertise. These are: - biomass combustion systems - biomass gasification systems and downstream syntheses - biogas and bioconversion systems In a fourth cross-cut and interlinking area we look at: - sustainable supply and value-added chains - automation and control of thermochemical processes and thermal systems - CFD modelling of thermochemical biomass conversion processes - Smart and micro grids