http://www.ieatask33.org/app/webroot/file/country-reports/IEA_TASK33_Switzerland_CReport_Aug_2008.pdf
Not Scandinavian but will link you to two actually woodgas electrical power projects that did get off the ground enough to actually be able to power out to a national grid. You can back into the oganization address and search other monitored countries efforts.
Switzerland, Austria, Estonia and India seem to be the most active in the last 10 years.
Common patterns? No domestic sources of politically available natural gas fields (Netherlands, Russia, ect). No available pools of oil (USA, Canada, UK, Norway, ect). NO deep sea ports to be drowned in manipulated world priced and avalible liquid petroleums, LNG and fossil coals (Japan, China, Korea, Tawain and others. Not directly crossed by cheap bulk trans-continetal pipelines (Poland, Ukraine and others). No huge investments in coal or Nuclear power plants (USA, Belgium, France, China and others). Maxed out Hydro resources now.
Three if these four listed countries have trees, can renewably grow trees and the willingness to at least try and be energy self-sufficient.
I could send you hunderds of links to shutdown now failed projects in the US, Canada and around the world. So-o-o-o very easy to kill these projects off very discreetly, indirectly. Initially fund then - dry up the funding - focus then on “techincal problems”, or, “world energy market cost changes” for the failure. Put cake-eater, tree hugging Eco-Feekin-Greens onto them: USofA - PNW, Germany. Insist that the shaft power be “most efficiently” only “modern gas terbine” genrated: East Coast US projects like the Connecticut Biomass Project misery. Untimate efficiency Geek killed? Powerworkers Unions killed? No matter dead now.
Why I only now support just gitter-done up-by-the-bootsraps woodgas projects now with my personal time and energy. No confusion then on for who it is being done for. No behind the scenes purse strings manipulating for a failure. As soon as I smell beholding grant moneys or rebate tax incentives goals I am gone, gone, gone. Woodgas can actually stand on its own energy balance sheets just fine thank you. Ain’t energy/balances wise broken at all. Needs NO Help.
Just Does NOT need to manipulated and over pot stirred into failures.
Regards
Steve Unruh