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Stimulating renewable energy is a crucial objective in view of tackling climate change and coping with future fossil fuel scarcity. In France, fuelwood appears to be an important source for the renewable energy mix. Using the French Forest Sector Model, our paper aims to assess the impacts of...
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Alternative energy sources, such as biomass CHP plants, have recently gained significantly in importance and action is … real life cases or scenarios. Its focus lies on the economic analysis of decentralized biomass CHP plants. It presents a … new approach to analyzing the economic aspects of biomass CHP plants implementing a formal microeconomic approach. As …
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Biomass in the form of crop residues and firewood is a major energy source for rural households in China. A survey … and cooking and that bioenergy accounts for 18 percent of their total energy consumption. Most of the biomass used for … biomass collection, and less farmland. Hence, open burning of some biomass is an optimal choice and is likely to become more …
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China promulgated the Medium and Long-Term Development Plan for Renewable Energy in 2007, which included sub-targets of 2010 and 2020 for various renewable energy technologies. Almost all the 2010 sub-targets have been met and even surpassed except non-grain fuel ethanol. There is debate...
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Deployment of distributed electricity resources requires bringing together assets that belong to diverse and geographically diffuse owners. Using the example of distributed solar PV, we analyze the schemes used to encourage/induce owners of distributed assets to make them available for...
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current US NG reserves to about 60 years. Beyond this period, compressed methane derived from biomass can replace CNG, and … utilize the would-be developed CNG infrastructure. The LDV biomass requirement depends on the biomass to methane carbon … conversion and battery storage capacity of CNG PHEVs. Converting biomass to methane using solar heat/H2 leads to ~65% lower LDV …
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utilizing renewable energy sources. The availability of various biomass resources has made it an appealing source of renewable … energy. Given the variability of supply and sources of biomass, supply chains play an important role in the efficient … provisioning of biomass resources for energy production. This paper provides a comprehensive review and classification of the …
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The UK has legally binding renewable energy and greenhouse gas targets. Energy from biomass is anticipated to make … major contributions to these. However there are concerns about the availability and sustainability of biomass for the … bioenergy sector. A Biomass Resource Model has been developed that reflects the key biomass supply-chain dynamics and …
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and solid biomass-based bioenergy. The two cases disclose some similarities between these two factors, but the remaining …
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conventional electricity with electricity generated from forest biomass. The results show that consumers specially prefer the …
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