Produrre energia rinnovabile nelle aziende agro-zootecniche. Effetti economici dalle novità introdotte nella normativa del 2012

Gaviglio, Anna; Pecorino, Biagio; Ragazzoni, Alessandro

doi:10.3280/ecag2014-002003

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“…In particular, Figure 2 shows that the rent in the agrarian region increases to a value of 0.8 kW/ha installed power per hectare, then it starts to decrease. This bell-shaped trend presumably derives from a sequence of interconnected events: increasing levels of kW installed per hectare fosters the competition for energy crops, forcing producers to search for feedstock from more and more distant areas and pushing up the cost of bioenergy input procurement [10,36]. Beyond a certain threshold of installed power density, the competition for local land becomes economically unviable and leads producers to shift from maize silage (which is bulky) to other biogas feedstocks.…”

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“…As shown in recent studies on biogas in the same area [10,35,36], the transport costs for biogas input and digestate spreading are non-linear, with an efficient ray of procurement that depends on plant size and feedstock mix. As spatial information on the location of rented land with respect to each biogas plant is missing, the model accounts for this feature by including the number of biogas plants in the surroundings of rented land.…”

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“…The rationale behind using such a functional form relies on specific features of biogas production. These are non-linear transportation costs of input (energy crops and slurry) and output (digestate), as outlined in studies carried out in the same area [10,35,36]. Thus, it is plausible to assume that the non-linearity in transportation costs may translate in non-linear effects of biogas on rental prices.…”

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The Effect of Biogas Production on Farmland Rental Prices: Empirical Evidences from Northern Italy

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Abstract:In the last decade, increased environmental awareness has prompted the adoption of incentives for exploiting renewable energy sources. Among these, biogas production has received a certain attention in developed countries. Nonetheless, the subsidies provided have posed the problem of an activity (the production of bioenergy) that engages in direct competition with food and feed production for limited resources, like agricultural land. Even if this competition may be softened by allocating marginal land and/or using dedicated non-agricultural crops, empirical evidence shows that biogas plants have been developed in highly-productive agricultural areas, using increasing amounts of maize silage as feedstock. Thus, studies aimed at measuring the effect of biogas production on agricultural activities are needed in order to avoid this socially undesirable outcome. The paper presents an econometric estimation of the impact of biogas plants on farmland rental values of a Northern Italian rural area. Results show that biogas has a non-linear effect on rental prices, suggesting that incentive schemes specifically accounting for plants' dimensions and technologies would improve the social sustainability of the bioenergy sector and its coexistence with agricultural activity.

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“…Our study focused on the Mediterranean area, where a new market for the digestate is required to have new income opportunities for plant owners (Gaviglio et al, 2014) and to reduce the typical dependence of the anaerobic digestion plants on public subsidies (Appel et al, 2016;Dahlin et al, 2017). In addition, the creation of a market for digestate appears to be an essential condition to promote in the Mediterranean area the production of biogas from agricultural biomass according to the sustainable principles of Biogasdoneright TM without taking away agricultural land for food and feed production.…”

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Is the information sufficient to create a new market for digestate?

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Unfamiliarity with a good reduce the chances to be used by consumers. This is the case of digestate which is an organic soil conditioner obtained as by-product of biogas chain. The use of digestate as alternative to traditional manure is still not very widespread due to the lack of knowledge among farmers. In our survey, we explored whether providing farmers with information about the digestate can affect farmers’ willingness to pay for buying it instead of the traditional manure used by farmers as soil conditioner. By conducting a hypothetical multiple-price list experiment we show that information positively affects farmers’ willingness to pay (WTP) for digestate but information alone is not sufficient to create a new market for it because at the same price farmers always continue to buy manure. This finding raises some questions when estimating the effect of information, which while positive does not shift farmers’ decisions to use an unfamiliar good. This result suggests that information provided to farmers elicited a WTP not sufficient to replace traditional manure with digestate.

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The impact of different energy policy options on feedstock price and land demand for maize silage: The case of biogas in Lombardy

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Produrre energia rinnovabile nelle aziende agro-zootecniche. Effetti economici dalle novità introdotte nella normativa del 2012

Cited by 6 publications

References 14 publications

The Effect of Biogas Production on Farmland Rental Prices: Empirical Evidences from Northern Italy

The Effect of Biogas Production on Farmland Rental Prices: Empirical Evidences from Northern Italy

Is the information sufficient to create a new market for digestate?

The impact of different energy policy options on feedstock price and land demand for maize silage: The case of biogas in Lombardy

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