Integration of agricultural and energy system models for biofuel assessment

Elobeid, Amani; Tokgöz, Simla; Dodder, Rebecca; Johnson, T. W.; Kaplan, P. Özge; Kurkalova, Lyubov A.; Secchi, Silvia

doi:10.1016/j.envsoft.2013.05.007

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“…The evolution of biofuel technologies, feedstock markets, fuel prices, energy policies, and demand over the next decade and beyond is also uncertain, pointing to the potential utility of examining alternative scenarios using structural models of these two markets. Elobeid et al (2013) provide a description of an integrated modeling framework designed to analyze the role of biomass feedstocks from Energy Economics 51 (2015) …”

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Impact of energy prices and cellulosic biomass supply on agriculture, energy, and the environment: An integrated modeling approach

Dodder¹,

Kaplan²,

Elobeid³

et al. 2015

Energy Economics

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Impact of energy prices and cellulosic biomass supply on agriculture, energy, and the environment: An integrated modeling approach

Dodder¹,

Kaplan²,

Elobeid³

et al. 2015

Energy Economics

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“…Works considering jointly water, energy, and agriculture are less common [7][8][9]28]. These studies analyze the technical connection that exists between the three elements in order to highlight the need for a joint policy aimed at ensuring sustainable development.…”

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“…In the last years international organizations have organized several conferences to raise awareness of the WEF nexus [6], and some studies have addressed this issue by trying to provide a theoretically integrated view aimed at understanding how to tackle these complex relationships when designing policies and taking appropriate actions [7][8][9][10]. These studies have analyzed the technical connection that exists between the three elements in order to highlight the need for a joint policy aimed at ensuring sustainable development.…”

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confidence: 99%

Volatility Spillover between Water, Energy and Food

2017

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Water, energy, and food and are strongly interconnected, and the sustainability of the whole world depends on this link. The aim of this article is to analyze the volatility spillovers between indexes representing the financial component of this nexus. We use a multivariate Generalized Autoregressive Conditional Heteroskedasticity (GARCH) model with daily data in which the water variable is proxy by equity index that represents the performance of the industry involved in water business both at the global and local levels. For the food and energy sectors, we use two sub-indexes of the S&P Goldman Sachs (GS)-Commodity Index. Our results highlight the existence of a financial nexus between water, energy, and food that was particularly exacerbated during 2008 crisis. Evidence therefore suggests the need to better investigate the policy options that can be used to reduce price volatility in a framework of the rising relevance of sustainability issues.

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“…Balmorel [7,8,9], MARKAL/TIMES [10,11,12], and EnergyPLAN [13,14,15]. An overview of existing energy systems models can be found in [16].…”

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The impact of CO2-costs on biogas usage

Jensen

Skovsgaard

2017

Energy

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The Danish government has set a target of being fossil fuel independent by 2050 implying that a high degree of inflexible renewable energy will be included in the energy system; biogas can add flexibility and potentially has a negative CO 2 -emission. In this paper, we investigate the socioeconomic system costs of reaching a Danish biogas target of 3.8 PJ in the energy system, and how CO 2 -costs affect the system costs and biogas usage.We perform our analysis using the energy systems model, Balmorel, and expand the model with a common target for raw biogas and upgraded biogas (biomethane). Raw biogas can be used directly in heat and power production, while biomethane has the same properties as natural gas.Balmorel is altered such that natural gas and biomethane can be used in the same technologies.Several CO 2 -cost estimates are investigated; hereunder a high estimate for the expected CO 2 -externality costs. We find that system costs increase with CO 2 -costs in most cases, while the biogas target becomes socio-economically cheaper. In the case of a very high CO 2 -cost, system costs decrease and biomethane becomes the primary fuel. Furthermore, biomethane functions as regulating power and the Danish fuel consumption increases due to a higher electricity export.

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Integration of agricultural and energy system models for biofuel assessment

Cited by 29 publications

References 33 publications

Impact of energy prices and cellulosic biomass supply on agriculture, energy, and the environment: An integrated modeling approach

Impact of energy prices and cellulosic biomass supply on agriculture, energy, and the environment: An integrated modeling approach

Volatility Spillover between Water, Energy and Food

The impact of CO2-costs on biogas usage

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