Key factors in the potential of biomass for energy purposes
(2005)The International Institute for Industrial Environmental Economics
- Abstract
- The aim of this thesis is to identify the key factors that affect the biomass potential for energy purposes in the EU-15 in the short term (2010) and in the long term (2050) and to examine the extent to which these factors are taken into consideration in recent European biomass potential studies. In the short term, the production and use of energy carriers based on renewable energy sources (RES) needs to be tested. The identified key factors are: (1) local capacity through the development of pilot projects, and (2) supply chain coordination. In the long term, other key factors for large scale introduction of bioenergy include: (1) land use, (2) efficiency in the yield, conversion technology and end-use, (3) price competitiveness, (4)... (More)
- The aim of this thesis is to identify the key factors that affect the biomass potential for energy purposes in the EU-15 in the short term (2010) and in the long term (2050) and to examine the extent to which these factors are taken into consideration in recent European biomass potential studies. In the short term, the production and use of energy carriers based on renewable energy sources (RES) needs to be tested. The identified key factors are: (1) local capacity through the development of pilot projects, and (2) supply chain coordination. In the long term, other key factors for large scale introduction of bioenergy include: (1) land use, (2) efficiency in the yield, conversion technology and end-use, (3) price competitiveness, (4) climate change, (5) policies and (6) integration. These key factors rely on sub-factors due to their complexity. These factors are interrelated; the outcome of one affects the others creating a dynamic system. Giving significance to their interrelation, policies have a higher impact. They influence land use and price competitiveness. Climate change influences the efficiency, and then affects the price competitiveness. Thus, policies are the root cause, which moves the system, while the price competitiveness shows the outcome of the whole system. On the other hand, biomass potential estimations carried out by recent European studies shows a variation between 3.1 to 11.7 EJ y-1. Their methodologies, approaches, potential, source of data and key factors taken into consideration are as diverse as their outcomes. The key factors are used in the estimation of the biomass potential. However, some of these factors are well developed and explained, while others are just mentioned. These identified key factors can help to estimate the potential of biomass for the EU-15 in the short and long term, using different scenarios. (Less)
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- author
- Rodríguez Bello, Luz Angélica
- supervisor
- organization
- year
- 2005
- type
- H1 - Master's Degree (One Year)
- subject
- keywords
- renewable energy sources, biomass, bioenergy, Environmental studies, Miljöstudier
- language
- English
- id
- 1327059
- date added to LUP
- 2006-06-13 00:00:00
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- 2006-06-13 00:00:00
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abstract = {{The aim of this thesis is to identify the key factors that affect the biomass potential for energy purposes in the EU-15 in the short term (2010) and in the long term (2050) and to examine the extent to which these factors are taken into consideration in recent European biomass potential studies. In the short term, the production and use of energy carriers based on renewable energy sources (RES) needs to be tested. The identified key factors are: (1) local capacity through the development of pilot projects, and (2) supply chain coordination. In the long term, other key factors for large scale introduction of bioenergy include: (1) land use, (2) efficiency in the yield, conversion technology and end-use, (3) price competitiveness, (4) climate change, (5) policies and (6) integration. These key factors rely on sub-factors due to their complexity. These factors are interrelated; the outcome of one affects the others creating a dynamic system. Giving significance to their interrelation, policies have a higher impact. They influence land use and price competitiveness. Climate change influences the efficiency, and then affects the price competitiveness. Thus, policies are the root cause, which moves the system, while the price competitiveness shows the outcome of the whole system. On the other hand, biomass potential estimations carried out by recent European studies shows a variation between 3.1 to 11.7 EJ y-1. Their methodologies, approaches, potential, source of data and key factors taken into consideration are as diverse as their outcomes. The key factors are used in the estimation of the biomass potential. However, some of these factors are well developed and explained, while others are just mentioned. These identified key factors can help to estimate the potential of biomass for the EU-15 in the short and long term, using different scenarios.}},
author = {{Rodríguez Bello, Luz Angélica}},
language = {{eng}},
note = {{Student Paper}},
title = {{Key factors in the potential of biomass for energy purposes}},
year = {{2005}},
}