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Title: Expected international demand for woody and herbaceous feedstock

Abstract

The development of a U.S. bioenergy market and ultimately ‘bioeconomy’ has primarily been investigated with a national focus. Limited attention has been given to the potential impacts of international market developments. The goal of this project is to advance the current State of Technology of a single biorefinery to the global level providing quantitative estimates on how international markets may influence the domestic feedstock supply costs. The scope of the project is limited to feedstock that is currently available and new crops being developed to be used in a future U.S. bioeconomy including herbaceous residues (e.g., corn stover), woody biomass (e.g., pulpwood), and energy crops (e.g., switchgrass). The timeframe is set to the periods of 2022, 2030, and 2040 to align with current policy targets (e.g., the RFS2) and future updates of the Billion Ton data. This particular milestone delivers demand volumes for generic woody and herbaceous feedstocks for the main (net) importing regions along the above timeframes. The regional focus of the study is the European Union (EU), currently the largest demand region for U.S. pellets made from pulpwood and forest residues. The pellets are predominantly used in large-scale power plants (>5MWel) in the United Kingdom (UK), the Netherlandsmore » (NL), Belgium (BE), and Denmark (DK).« less

Authors:
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  1. Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Publication Date:
Research Org.:
Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States)
Sponsoring Org.:
USDOE
OSTI Identifier:
1177235
Report Number(s):
INL/EXT-14-33968
DOE Contract Number:  
DE-AC07-05ID14517
Resource Type:
Technical Report
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English
Subject:
09 BIOMASS FUELS; feedstock cost; international; trade

Citation Formats

Lamers, Patrick, Jacobson, Jacob, Mohammad, Roni, and Wright, Christopher. Expected international demand for woody and herbaceous feedstock. United States: N. p., 2015. Web. doi:10.2172/1177235.
Lamers, Patrick, Jacobson, Jacob, Mohammad, Roni, & Wright, Christopher. Expected international demand for woody and herbaceous feedstock. United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1177235
Lamers, Patrick, Jacobson, Jacob, Mohammad, Roni, and Wright, Christopher. 2015. "Expected international demand for woody and herbaceous feedstock". United States. https://doi.org/10.2172/1177235. https://www.osti.gov/servlets/purl/1177235.
@article{osti_1177235,
title = {Expected international demand for woody and herbaceous feedstock},
author = {Lamers, Patrick and Jacobson, Jacob and Mohammad, Roni and Wright, Christopher},
abstractNote = {The development of a U.S. bioenergy market and ultimately ‘bioeconomy’ has primarily been investigated with a national focus. Limited attention has been given to the potential impacts of international market developments. The goal of this project is to advance the current State of Technology of a single biorefinery to the global level providing quantitative estimates on how international markets may influence the domestic feedstock supply costs. The scope of the project is limited to feedstock that is currently available and new crops being developed to be used in a future U.S. bioeconomy including herbaceous residues (e.g., corn stover), woody biomass (e.g., pulpwood), and energy crops (e.g., switchgrass). The timeframe is set to the periods of 2022, 2030, and 2040 to align with current policy targets (e.g., the RFS2) and future updates of the Billion Ton data. This particular milestone delivers demand volumes for generic woody and herbaceous feedstocks for the main (net) importing regions along the above timeframes. The regional focus of the study is the European Union (EU), currently the largest demand region for U.S. pellets made from pulpwood and forest residues. The pellets are predominantly used in large-scale power plants (>5MWel) in the United Kingdom (UK), the Netherlands (NL), Belgium (BE), and Denmark (DK).},
doi = {10.2172/1177235},
url = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/1177235}, journal = {},
number = ,
volume = ,
place = {United States},
year = {Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2015},
month = {Sun Mar 01 00:00:00 EST 2015}
}