Biomass and Bioenergy – Taking the Leap to Renewable Energy Sources
Over the last decade, the number of countries researching the potential of biomass and bioenergy for energy services rose rapidly. This contributed to the biomass as solid and liquid fuels, an interesting and promising option among renewable energy sources available. This includes solid waste and biomass, which comprises of charcoal, firewood, energy crops and forestry and agricultural residues to produce heat and electricity, and short crops to produce liquid fuels such as ethanol and biodiesel.
The growing concern of urban waste has helped draw attention to bioenergy options. There are the combined result of top-down and bottom-up initiatives to solve this problem. However, nothing seems more than in the past, awareness of the potential of biomass and bioenergy, resulting from the successful experiences in developed and developing countries.
We need much more reason and forceful move in moving to renewable energy systems if we want to promote a transition leap. Bioenergy offers interesting alternatives, which only partially explored compare to other resources. Increased use of bioenergy must be based on modern technology and based on effective technology, which will be used on a commercial basis to ensure high-quality energy. Is it possible to talk about the competition between bioenergy and other alternative, if we don’t have much option?
Recent studies show that biomass technologies can be a competitor to fossil fuels. A specific advantage of bioenergy is that it can be done at small scales, ranging from 1 to 100 MW. In this scaling, a slowdown in growth unit can be done to avoid fail investments and minimize risk. In an era of restructuring the electricity industry, these benefits are significant advantages from economies perspective, because of scale can not simply be applied to unstable markets. Moreover, risk aversion and demand for a quick return of project is favor by stakeholder, particularly in electricity infrastructure. We can see this in the solar economy (included bioenergy), where preferably small and decentralized solutions alongside local distribution. This is differing importantly from the existing large scale and centralized energy systems.
Bioenergy as one source of energy is not a universal solution for all countries. The size of the regional potential for bioenergy needs to be compared in the context of competing uses of resources for biomass feedstock productions. When resources are scarce land, forests of energy to other uses in competition and lead to negative impacts on food production. However, there are many countries in the world where this is not only the case. Numerous developing countries like Nigeria, Brazil, Thailand, and Indonesia have large quantities of biomass resources from various sources and are good candidates for bio-energy technologies.
In Europe, the restructuring of agriculture is the release of land for producing biomass for energy can be obtained. Biomass is an important energy source in Europe as a whole, may be measured against the overall impact on the environment and socio-economic compared to other alternatives. The possibility of increased security of supply through greater use of bioenergy needs is more serious. A significant increase in the share of biofuels can be achieved with individual national initiatives, but requires a coordinated approach, particularly to facilitate the development of biofuels.
It’s a long way to go for bio-energy to incorporate alternative energy sources. In particular, there is a significant market power to overcome the obstacles that only the close coordination between different sectors should be met to participate in biomass and bioenergy initiatives. This book describes some of the features that are already in use, the bioenergy potential of some of the progress made in different contexts.
The turning point was rather that the perception of experts, policy makers and industries representing a wide window of opportunity opened, which was designed to understand the achievement of global bioenergy potential. In many cases, the leap to more than economic policy, for example, that the reduction is from grants from non-renewable alternatives is a necessary step in this process. In many areas, the political coordination of efforts is a necessary first step to creating bioenergy. In any case, the jump to increased use of green energy is more psychological than technological.