Introduction Coupled with a dwindling fossil fuel supply, the rise in demand for energy has turned the attention of the research community toward sustainable and renewable energy sources. One of them is biomass, a resource expected to ensure an economically and environmentally balanced production of energy for sustainable economic growth [1]. One challenge in biomass energy generation lies in developing innovative technologies and securing its affordable supplies [2]. A viable source of such supplies may be the plant-mass produced on extensively harvested grasslands, many of which are protected in a variety of ways, including in the Natura 2000 network, with a view to preserving their environmental value. Biomass from such grasslands is poorly suited for use as animal feedstock. The use of grasslands falls outside of the scope of social land-use conficts over areas with food production potential that are set aside for energy generation, as is increasingly the case with feld crop biomass and especially corn silage utilized for biogas production [3-4]. In recent decades, the total area of environmentally valuable grasslands has declined steadily, mainly as a result of their abandonment due to drops in demand for grassland-derived feedstock caused originally by declines in farm animal numbers [5]. In effect, grasslands have diminished in value as an environmental, social, and economic asset. Over time, grassland landscapes have Pol. J. Environ. Stud. Vol. 27, No. 4 (2018), 1513-1521 Original Research Valuation of Ecosystem Services for Implementing Innovative Clean Technology Tomasz Goliński*, Zenon Foltynowicz** Faculty of Commodity Science, Department of Industrial Product Quality and Ecology, Poznań University of Economics and Business, Poznań, Poland Received: 12 July 2017 Accepted: 19 September 2017 Abstract Sustainable development of high nature value areas promotes the use of resources and services that rely on the unique assets of a particular ecosystem without undermining its integrity. Implementing innovative technologies, especially in the feld of renewable energy sources, supports this process and helps to preserve environmentally valuable areas such as semi-natural grasslands. This study employs the ecosystem services valuation method to assess the environmental impacts of implementation of innovative IFBB technology in the Notec River Valley of western Poland as a part of a proposed implementation potential analysis framework. Six different categories of ecosystem services were analysed. Results show that implementing IFBB technology has a positive impact on the local ecosystem, generates additional value for potential investors, and thus could affect the perception of a renewable energy generation technology as being viable to implement. Keywords: ecosystem services, renewable energy sources, innovative technology implementation, semi- natural grasslands, biomass *e-mail: tom.golinsky@gmail.com **e-mail: zenon.foltynowicz@ue.poznan.pl DOI: 10.15244/pjoes/77097 ONLINE PUBLICATION DATE: 2018-03-05