of a problem without policy intervention. These findings suggest that a more sustainable use of biomass requires policies …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 …

The role of biomass in US industrial interfuel substitution in the industrial sector has typically been analyzed using … data for the four traditional fuels of coal, oil, electricity and natural gas. However, the use of biomass as an industrial … industrial sector is modeled with a dynamic linear logit model which includes biomass alongside the other four traditional fuels …

policy and the EU ETS. We estimate the potential biomass demand from the existing power plants, and we match our estimates …This paper analyses the potential of biomass-based electricity in the EU-27 countries, and interactions with climate … with the potential biomass supply in Europe. Furthermore, we compute the CO2 abatement associated with the co …

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 …

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 …

and solid biomass-based bioenergy. The two cases disclose some similarities between these two factors, but the remaining …

This paper presents a choice experiment analyzing the consumers' preferences towards a policy for replacing … conventional electricity with electricity generated from forest biomass. The results show that consumers specially prefer the …

structured the program so that a village energy committee (VEC) ran a decentralized village program involving biomass gasifiers …

A target of 30 per cent substitution of biomass for peat in the three peat fired power stations from 2015 has been set … grow these crops. An extension of the Renewable Energy Feed in Tariff (REFIT) scheme to include the co-firing of biomass … offer a fixed price to farmers for biomass feedstock. The decision to adopt biomass is represented as a constrained problem …