amount of electricity generated from renewable sources. Biomass can be utilized in a dedicated bio-power plant to generate …-product electricity. Considering these options along with a detailed national model of agricultural biomass production allows for the …Renewable Portfolio Standards (RPSs) have been enacted in 29 states in the US, in part to encourage an increase in the …

Sustainable agriculture is prescribed as a policy approach that maximizes economic benefits while maintaining …

biofuels, particularly for cellulosic biofuels. This paper examines the short- and long-run effects of Renewable Fuel Standard … (RFS) on the mix of biofuel feedstocks, food, fuel and wood markets and land use change by using an economic model that … primary initial providers of biomass feedstocks. After year 2025, energy crops and crop residues will play the leading role in …

comprise the majority of GHG emissions in the US. Two prominent policy sets are the national RFS and state-level RPSs. The … emissions. We also analyze the interactions between the RFS and state RPS policies and the extent to which these policies create … competition or complementarity in their use of biomass for meeting the standards since the production of cellulosic biofuels also …

simulation model for controlling drainage from cotton production in California with drip irrigation as a conservation technology. …

hydrologic model and an economic model is developed to study the cost-effective enrollment of land in the Conservation Reserve …