Key barriers for bioenergy in Europe: Economic conditions, know-how and institutional capacity, and supply chain co-ordination

McCormick, Kes; Kåberger, Tomas

doi:10.1016/j.biombioe.2007.01.008

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“…Literature on CE production highlights ways of reducing production costs: (1) enzyme cost reduction [24]; (2) reducing energy consumption for pre-treatment [25]; (3) securing feedstock provision [26] by increasing residue harvest rates [22] and enabling feedstock variability [27], and (4) reduction of risk in infrastructure investments [28]. It is generally assumed that unit production costs for CE will decrease as the scale of production increases and that larger biorefineries will have reduced costs through scaling effects [29].…”

Section: Economy Of Cementioning

confidence: 99%

Value Chain Structures that Define European Cellulosic Ethanol Production

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Production of cellulosic ethanol (CE) has not yet reached the scale envisaged by the literature and industry. This study explores CE production in Europe to improve understanding of the motivations and barriers associated with this situation. To do this, we conduct a case study-based analysis of CE production plants across Europe from a global value chain (GVC) perspective. We find that most CE production plants in the EU focus largely on intellectual property and are therefore only at the pilot or demonstration scale. Crescentino, the largest CE production facility in Europe, is also more interested in technology licensing than producing ethanol. Demonstration-scale plants tend to have a larger variety of feedstocks, whereas forestry-based plants have more diversity of outputs. As scale increases, the diversity of feedstocks and outputs diminishes, and firms struggle with feedstock provisioning, global petroleum markets and higher financial risks. We argue that, to increase CE production, policies should consider value chains, promote the wider bio-economy of products and focus on economies of scope. Whereas the EU and its member states have ethanol quotas and blending targets, a more effective policy would be to seek to reduce the risks involved in financing capital projects, secure feedstock provisioning and support a diversity of end products.

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Section: Economy Of Cementioning

confidence: 99%

Value Chain Structures that Define European Cellulosic Ethanol Production

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“…There are actually no absolute barriers to achieving EU REP potentials, but rather factors affecting their implementation stage at various levels. These can be summarily divided into economic, administrative, and market-related barriers [39]. Example of the first category are: need of large investment, lack of long-term perspective, low profitability (e.g., in sales of biogas or electricity), limited final uses for heat produced, limited investment resources (e.g., due to financial crisis), costs of grid connection, logistic difficulties for feedstock procurement.…”

Section: Non-technological Barriers To Biogas Usementioning

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“…A multi-national study on the identification and analysis of barriers for bioenergy in the EU, recently completed, showed economic conditions, know-how and institutional capacity, and supply chain co-ordination to be the key barriers obstructing the expansion of bioenergy [39]. The study highlighted some supply-chain barriers, previously undetected, such as the limited flexibility and uncertainty of short-term economic gains associated with energy crops by farmers, and their limited experience (know-how) with these crops.…”

Section: Non-technological Barriers To Biogas Usementioning

confidence: 99%

“…In order to make farmers' entrepreneurial risk acceptable, contracts between the latter and energy companies should involve a third-party guarantor (e.g., local governments) to create a climate of confidence and promote energy crop diffusion. In some countries (e.g., Poland) there exist, however, practical disincentives that discourage farmers to invest and harvest energy crops [39].…”

Section: Non-technological Barriers To Biogas Usementioning

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European Framework for the Diffusion of Biogas Uses: Emerging Technologies, Acceptance, Incentive Strategies, and Institutional-Regulatory Support

2016

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Biogas will constitute a significant fraction of future power supply, since it is expected to contribute a large share of the EU renewable energy targets. Biogas, once produced, can be combusted in traditional boilers to provide heat, or to generate electricity. It can be used for the production of chemical compounds, or fed into a pipeline. This review paper will briefly analyze the current most promising emerging biogas technologies in the perspective of their potential uses, environmental benefits, and public acceptance; draw a picture of current conditions on the adoption of a biogas road map in the several EU Member States; analyze incentive and support policy implementation status and gaps; discuss non-technological barriers; and summarize proposed solutions to widen this energy's use.

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“…One of the most promising methods for the provision of energy production in general is coincineration of biomass energy willows and other biomass plant with coal in the near future and in the present [10]. It failed to apply in Slovakia and at global level, despite the availability, environmental and technological beneits announced by this system on a larger scale.…”

Section: Combustion Of Biomassmentioning

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Biomass Production on Reclaimed Areas Tailing Ponds

Bosak¹

2017

Biomass Volume Estimation and Valorization for Energy

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This chapter presents the results of a multiannual systematic research and development of essentially new environmental safety technology of overlapping tailing pond modelled in terms of Vojany thermal power plant (EVO), Slovakia. Re-cultivated tailing area can be used to produce biomass (Swedish willow) and this biomass is used again for subsequent incineration with coal. Laboratory and small plot experiments conducted directly in the tailing pond area resulted in the development of another new dimension of environmental technology of decontamination of tailing ponds. This technology connects technical, safety, economical and environmental efects for biomass production.

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Key barriers for bioenergy in Europe: Economic conditions, know-how and institutional capacity, and supply chain co-ordination

Cited by 180 publications

References 16 publications

Value Chain Structures that Define European Cellulosic Ethanol Production

Value Chain Structures that Define European Cellulosic Ethanol Production

European Framework for the Diffusion of Biogas Uses: Emerging Technologies, Acceptance, Incentive Strategies, and Institutional-Regulatory Support

Biomass Production on Reclaimed Areas Tailing Ponds

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