Especially in Mediterranean forests climate change will bring more fires. So using fire combustible that is little wood to make pellets will cut the combustible and give renewable energy. Forest cuts remanants are already used for pellets but large scale use of mattorrals and maquis for pellets is not known (from me).
I know the problem of distance, I worked on this subject, but the key factor is the wood market. If the trade is free, importation from some countries with a lot of wood and weak salaries sunk the project only in the economic matter. The project has to be supported by the state.
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/260432036_Bioenergy_A_sustainable_Energy_Option_for_Rural_India
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318984196_Hotspots_of_Solar_Potential_in_India
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/230822079_Regional_Bioenergy_Planning_for_Sustainability_in_Himachal_Pradesh_India
I agree with Verena. Sustainable use of shrubs (and small diameter wood) for bioenergy purposes, depends on the local analysis of spatial-explicit supply-demand of woodfuel (or charcoal, but also biochar...), and available harvesting/processing techniques. This would potentially highlight priority areas for wood energy use, as well as areas in which biodiversity conservation (e.g., deadwood-dependent organisms) and carbon sequestration 8e.g., soil carbon, litter) should, instead, be prioritized.
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