Assessing Interdependencies Between Food and Energy Prices: The Case of Biodiesel in Germany

Lajdova, Zuzana; Kapusta, Jaroslav; Bielik, Peter

doi:10.7160/aol.2017.090305

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“…For China, Deng et al [76] calculated the cost efficiency of Jatropha curcas biodiesel with positive results albeit with a smaller discount rate. Use of biofuels was also discussed for Germany and the United States [77][78][79]. The results show that net present value is mostly positive for discount rates ranging from 1 to 11%.…”

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Using Biofuels for Highly Renewable Electricity Systems: A Case Study of the Jatropha curcas

2019

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Recent movements for the decarbonization of the electricity sector have become a priority for many countries around the world and will inevitably lead to the sharp decline of fossil-fuel-based energy. Energy from fossil fuels is to be replaced by renewable energy sources (RES), although the transition will neither be cheap nor smooth. One sustainable and environmentally friendly alternative to fossil fuels and which will take a considerable share in the increasing supply of renewable energy resources is biofuels. There are various types of biofuels used in practice; however, biodiesels represent one of the most popular and widespread ones. This paper focuses as a case study on the byproducts of Jatropha curcas, a crop and a plant that is already used for biofuel production and which is subsequently employed in electricity generation in Jatropha curcas producing regions. This paper identifies the limitations and prospects of Jatropha curcas utilization. Also, Jatropha curcas is compared to other materials suitable for biomass generation. An economic analysis for a 2 MW biofuel powerplant was conducted incorporating various market-related risks. The study shows that at current prices, net profitability can be achieved using Jatropha curcas byproducts for producing electricity.

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Using Biofuels for Highly Renewable Electricity Systems: A Case Study of the Jatropha curcas

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“…VECM can be considered as an extension of the VAR model, allowing the distinction between short-run and long-run dynamics [9]. The VECM approach has also been recently used by many authors in the agri-food sector [3,4,9,10,15,16,28,29]. The effects of the disease crisis on price developments were investigated by Lloyd et al [30], who found by VECM that the Bovine Spongiform Encephalopathy (BSE) crisis had a much higher impact on changes in agricultural prices than on retail prices.…”

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The Vertical Price Transmission in Pork Meat Production in the Czech Republic

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The paper aims at vertical price transmission of the agri-food market in the Czech Republic. It is focused on the analysis of price transmission in pork meat by investigating the short-run and long-run relationships within the product and the speed of establishing the equilibrium relationship. For this purpose, there is employed specially VECM (Vector Error Correction Model), impulse-response analysis, and decomposition of variance of VECM, which show the system’s reaction. The applied approach considers five alternatives in the Johansen approach. The results suggest that there is an existence of the equilibrium relationship in vertical markets and this relationship is simultaneous and demand-driven. The impulse-response analyses show the response of the processing price to one standard deviation shock to the agriculture price from approximately 15–20 periods reaching long-run equilibrium. The response of the agriculture price to one standard deviation shock to the processing price reaching long-run equilibrium is also from approximately 15–20 periods.

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“…The first attempts focused on the direct use of scarce resources in the form of corn, wheat, rye, or silage (Rabeya et al, 2020, Makutenas et al, 2018, Barrière et al, 2016. The use of the mentioned sources has obvious disadvantages which were already well documented in the available literature (Lajdová et al, 2017). The overall energy gain from these biofuels has been doubted in the research when compared to second-and thirdgeneration biofuels (Lorenz and Morris, 1995;Pimentel and Patzek, 2005).…”

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Assessment of the Biogas Production Potential within the Slovak Spirits Industry

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Bielik

Turčeková

et al. 2021

Visegrad Journal on Bioeconomy and Sustainable Development

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The Slovak spirits industry has a stable position within the alcoholic beverages industry in the Slovak Republic. However, its production process causes significant environmental stress on nature. The industry can use roughly only 10% of the raw materials. This means a significant amount of waste is produced during the distillation process. We investigated the biogas production potential within the Slovak distilleries producing spirits for final consumption when we compared the production of spirits between the years 2010 and 2019. Biogas production potential is calculated as an ideal situation when all spent wash from spirits producing distilleries is used for biogas production. The potential energy gain is also calculated in kWh based on the already available research in the field of biogas production. We conducted that the total biogas potential of the Slovak spirits industry could reach 15,886,053 kWh in terms of electricity and 22,946,177 kWh in terms of heat energy if we calculate energy potential according to the spirits production in the year 2019. The total combined energy potential generated during the reuse of waste from distilleries could reach 38,832,230 kWh. The biogas production in these facilities has also a positive side effect. If distilleries use the heat energy for the distillation process, the amount of greenhouse emissions will also be declining.

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Assessing Interdependencies Between Food and Energy Prices: The Case of Biodiesel in Germany

Cited by 6 publications

References 16 publications

Using Biofuels for Highly Renewable Electricity Systems: A Case Study of the Jatropha curcas

Using Biofuels for Highly Renewable Electricity Systems: A Case Study of the Jatropha curcas

The Vertical Price Transmission in Pork Meat Production in the Czech Republic

Assessment of the Biogas Production Potential within the Slovak Spirits Industry

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