Regional Feedstock Partnership Summary Report: Enabling the Billion-Ton Vision
- South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, SD (United States). North Central Sun Grant Center
- Dept. of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Ames, IA (United States). National Lab. for Agriculture and the Environment
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States). Process Science and Technology Division
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) and the Sun Grant Initiative established the Regional Feedstock Partnership (referred to as the Partnership) to address information gaps associated with enabling the vision of a sustainable, reliable, billion-ton U.S. bioenergy industry by the year 2030 (i.e., the Billion-Ton Vision). Over the past 7 years (2008–2014), the Partnership has been successful at advancing the biomass feedstock production industry in the United States, with notable accomplishments. The Billion-Ton Study identifies the technical potential to expand domestic biomass production to offset up to 30% of U.S. petroleum consumption, while continuing to meet demands for food, feed, fiber, and export. This study verifies for the biofuels and chemical industries that a real and substantial resource base could justify the significant investment needed to develop robust conversion technologies and commercial-scale facilities. DOE and the Sun Grant Initiative established the Partnership to demonstrate and validate the underlying assumptions underpinning the Billion-Ton Vision to supply a sustainable and reliable source of lignocellulosic feedstock to a large-scale bioenergy industry. This report discusses the accomplishments of the Partnership, with references to accompanying scientific publications. These accomplishments include advances in sustainable feedstock production, feedstock yield, yield stability and stand persistence, energy crop commercialization readiness, information transfer, assessment of the economic impacts of achieving the Billion-Ton Vision, and the impact of feedstock species and environment conditions on feedstock quality characteristics.
- Research Organization:
- Idaho National Lab. (INL), Idaho Falls, ID (United States); Sun Grant Initiative, Brookings, SD (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- USDOE Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE), Sustainable Transportation Office. Bioenergy Technologies Office
- Contributing Organization:
- South Dakota State Univ., Brookings, SD (United States); Dept. of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service, Ames, IA (United States)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC07-05ID14517
- OSTI ID:
- 1332062
- Report Number(s):
- DOE/EE-1422; 7520
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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