Until the year 2020, the domestic demands of wood pellets and wood chips for power generation is expected to reach 10 million tons. It is forecasted that the competition for raw materials supply would be inevitable inside and outside of Korea to secure reliable and stable energy sources. It is important to design an efficient structure which can supply raw materials from abroad, as much as domestic biomass plantation projects. This study was aim to deduce an efficient business structure for stable supply of raw materials from abroad in the future around a biomass plantation project in Semarang, Indonesia, performed by the Korea Forestry Promotion Institute since 2013. The result encompassed that the division of processes of production based on biomass plantation in Indonesia and of importation in Korea into manufacturing, processing, and usage; and establishment of consortia covering the related agents. The consortia engaged in the project was subdivided into a planting consortium and a manufacturing consortium. Since the domestic power producer who is the final consumer invested directly in the production of raw materials, it appeared that a more stable and efficient business structure would be possible by securing source of demand and supplementing narrow resources.
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Lee et al. (2018) studied this question.