Dumortier, Jerome - Agricultural and Applied Economics Association - AAEA - 2012
We analyze the effects on local biomass supply, demand, and prices of co-firing requirement for existing coal …-fired power plants. The co-firing requirement is imposed on 398 existing power plants. The biomass feedstock can come from corn … stover, wheat straw, switchgrass, and/or forest residues. Our model incorporates county-level biomass supply as well as …