A methodology to anaylse the potential development of biomass-energy sector: an application in Tuscany

Bernetti, Iacopo; Fagarazzi, Claudio; Fratini, Roberto

doi:10.1016/j.forpol.2004.03.018

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“…To that purpose, some economic indicators were calculated that are a reference point for farmers in alternative investments. More specifically, the analysis concerned the calculation of the Net Present Value (NPV) and the Payback Period (PBP) of the areas planted with SRF fertigated with wastewater: The NPV expresses the increase in wealth generated by the project as compared with the existing situation, expressed as if it were immediately available at the start of the conversion (Bernetti et al, 2004;Ciccarrella and Carbone, 2006); the PBP is the time in which the initial cash outflow of an investment is expected to be recovered from the cash inflows generated by the investment.…”

Section: Economic Analysismentioning

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“…Considered as the most promising renewable resource in the short and medium term (Hoogwijk et al, 2003), bioenergy is expected to play an increasing role in Europe, in view of achieving the targets recently established by the European Union on energy supply security and in compliance with international agreements on emission reductions. Within this context the biomass produced on agricultural soils will play an important role (Bernetti et al, 2004;EEA, 2013), related in particular to shortrotation forestry (SRF) (Dornburg et al, 2008(Dornburg et al, , 2010Romano et al, 2013a,b). Actually, following the IPCC report on renewable energies (IPCC, 2011), it would be possible to obtain up to 700 EJ/year from dedicated biomass crops grown on abandoned lands and/or on soils not planted with food crops.…”

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confidence: 99%

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A spatial analysis model to assess the feasibility of short rotation forestry fertigated with urban wastewater: Basilicata region case study

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a b s t r a c tThe large-scale cultivation of energy crops irrigated with non-conventional water resources could reduce the negative impacts of fossil fuel use, while still saving potable supplies and decreasing pollution in surface water, particularly in water-deficient environments, like the Mediterranean region. Energy planning is a complex process involving multiple decision makers and criteria. Given the spatial nature of the problem, the research proposes a spatial analysis model to assess the agronomic and economic feasibility of vegetation filter systems in Basilicata region, southern Italy. The model chosen for land suitability analysis is the ordered weighted averaging (OWA) with the use of linguistic quantifiers. The suitability map obtained from the OWA model was used as input in the spatial analysis functions to quantify the productivity and irrigation needs of the species, the potential irrigable service area of the wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), as well as the distances between them and SRF, which are all key elements in the economic evaluation. The results show that the distance is the main element that influences the feasibility: only 25 out of 163 WWTPs are cost-effective and can actually irrigate 864 ha of SRF. The research demonstrates that there is a great potential for bio-energy development in the region with significant economic advantages; in fact, there is a large number of sites with positive NPV up to 50,876.43 D/ha and payback period between 3 and 10 years. The implementation of vegetation filter systems could create chains with a high number of local actors (farmers, intermediaries, forest nurseries, etc.) and contribute to promoting territorial development and employment.

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A spatial analysis model to assess the feasibility of short rotation forestry fertigated with urban wastewater: Basilicata region case study

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et al. 2015

Agricultural Water Management

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“…As for extraction of forest residues and collection to biomass terminal, also the optimal distance traveled from biomass terminals/sawmills to biomass plants considers the morphology of the land. In particular, in order to calculate the "transit weight", the model is based on a cost surface algorithm that combines linear distance (related to resolution of all crossed pixels in raster map) and slope of each crossed area (Bernetti et al, 2004).…”

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Matching socio-economic and environmental efficiency of wood-residues energy chain: a partial equilibrium model for a case study in Alpine area

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et al. 2014

Journal of Cleaner Production

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Keywords:Wood energy chain Partial equilibrium model Multi-objective linear programming Geographic information system Sustainability assessment a b s t r a c tCombining the economics and the environmental and social aspects of bioenergy chain implementation is a difficult task, particularly for wood fuel production. Multiple aspects, such as financial analysis, technology development, natural resource exploitation and avoided environmental pollution, must be considered simultaneously. Thus, decision support models seem to be the proper tools for the overall definition of strategies in the wood energy sector.The objective of this study has been to develop a partial equilibrium model able to quantify the socioeconomic and environmental effects of policy, technology and best biomass allocation scenarios on the forest residue chain. The model, based on multi-objective linear programming and spatial analysis, considers the financial benefits/losses and the potential trends of three compartments: sawmills, forest enterprises and energy plants. In addition, the model computes avoided emissions for bioheat and bioelectricity production and introduces an impact indicator for the road transport of biomass. Model outputs are defined using a multi criteria approach. The main results stress the importance of both environmental parameters and the implementation of organic Rankine cycle technology for the optimization of the entire bioenergy chain. The model was tested in an Italian Alpine region (province of Trento).

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“…Another GIS based model for public forests, based on inventory data, was developed and tested in the Northern Black Forest region, Germany (Heisig et al, 2005). The feasibility of the biomass to energy chain was assessed in the Tuscany region (Bernetti et al, 2004). Tatsiopoulos and Tolis (2001) have evaluated the economic aspects of the cotton stalk biomass logistics in a mathematical formulation for Thessally, Greece.…”

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Methods and tools to evaluate the availability of renewable energy sources

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Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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The recent statements of both the European Union and the US Presidency pushed in the direction of using renewable forms of energy, in order to act against climate changes induced by the growing concentration of carbon dioxide in the atmosphere. In this paper, a survey regarding methods and tools presently available to determine potential and exploitable energy in the most important renewable sectors (i.e., solar, wind, wave, biomass and geothermal energy) is presented. Moreover, challenges for each renewable resource are highlighted as well as the available tools that can help in evaluating the use of a mix of different sources.

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A methodology to anaylse the potential development of biomass-energy sector: an application in Tuscany

Cited by 44 publications

References 4 publications

A spatial analysis model to assess the feasibility of short rotation forestry fertigated with urban wastewater: Basilicata region case study

A spatial analysis model to assess the feasibility of short rotation forestry fertigated with urban wastewater: Basilicata region case study

Matching socio-economic and environmental efficiency of wood-residues energy chain: a partial equilibrium model for a case study in Alpine area

Methods and tools to evaluate the availability of renewable energy sources

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