GHG Daily
1/20/2016
Bioenergy, if developed correctly, can provide significant emissions reductions in the United Kingdom, even without the use of carbon capture and storage, according to a report released Tuesday by the Energy Technologies Institute. Bioenergy with CCS (BECCS) remains the optimal means of achieving negative emissions energy production, the report finds. However, “If bioenergy is deployed without CCS, greenhouse gas (GHG) emission savings are still achievable given the right choice of crop type, location, and end use in the energy system,” according to the report.
Without CCS most bioenergy value chains can still deliver significantly lower emissions based on a fossil energy baseline, the report says. “Overall, for many bioenergy value chains not paired with CCS, significant GHG savings can be made now by using 2G biomass feedstock grown on arable land, or some grassland sites, by matching feedstock type and management options carefully on a site-by-site basis, such that [direct land use change] emission reductions, relative to the counterfactual land use, are delivered,” according to the report.
