Journal
UTILITIES POLICY
Volume 58, Issue -, Pages 52-62Publisher
ELSEVIER SCI LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.jup.2019.04.002
Keywords
Biomass power plants; Levelized cost of electricity; Biogenic carbon and air pollution
Funding
- Natural Resources Defense Council [135607]
- Brook Byers Institute for Sustainable Systems at the Georgia Institute of Technology
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Electricity powered by biomass is expanding. We examine four recent biopower plants and global benchmarks to assess their overall performance, confirming the characterization of biomass as an intermediate resource for power production. Electricity from biomass is more expensive than energy efficiency, natural gas, wind, or solar but substantially less expensive than new coal or nuclear plants. Compared to coal and natural gas per MWh produced, the NOx and SO2 emissions of biopower are also intermediate. We confirm that current investments in biopower can be attributed to an array of stakeholder value propositions extending beyond basic economic and environmental metrics.
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