Supplying Biomass to Power Plants: A Model of the Costs of Utilizing Agricultural Biomass in Cofired Power Plants

Supplying Biomass to Power Plants: A Model of the Costs of Utilizing Agricultural Biomass in Cofired Power Plants
ISBN-10
0833052187
ISBN-13
9780833052186
Category
Science
Pages
74
Language
English
Published
2011-03-28
Publisher
Rand Corporation
Authors
Tom LaTourrette, David S. Ortiz, Nicholas Burger

Description

U.S. power plants seek to diversify their fuel sources. Biomass energy is a renewable resource, generally with lower life-cycle greenhouse-gas emissions than fossil fuels. Prospective users need information about infrastructure, logistics, costs, and constraints for the full biomass life cycle. This model estimates the cost and availability of biomass energy resources from U.S. agricultural lands from the perspective of an individual power plant.

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