Impact of the Renewable Energy Sources Act in Germany on electricity produced with solid biofuels – Lessons learned by monitoring the market development

Sauter, Patrick S.; Witt, Janet; Billig, Eric; Thrän, Daniela

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Diversification and Environmental Impact Assessment of Plant Biomass Energy Use

Maj¹

2015

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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Biomass is an environmentally friendly alternative energy source for the energy sector, which is more and more widely used by both individual electricity generators (distributed generation) and power engineering plants (power engineering industry) [1]. Energy produced from biomass is the least capital-intensive renewable energy source because of the optional self-contained production. 220 billion Mg of dry mass is obtained this way on an annual basis globally [2], and in Poland biomass output amounts to 15-20 million Mg of coal [3]. In the course of the biomass incineration process, i.e. conversion of the chemical energy contained in the biomass into thermal energy, CO 2 emissions are counterbalanced by the quantity of the carbon dioxide absorbed by plants during growth [2,4,5]. Owing to this, there is a closed CO 2 cycle in the natural environment that is contrary to the processing of fossil fuels to generate heat, in the case of which the quantity of the carbon dioxide emitted to the natural environment (as added value) is not counterbalanced in any way. The conversion of biomass is a renewable process and thus does not cause CO 2 content to rise in the atmosphere and the greenhouse effect to increase [6][7][8].Renewable energy sources contribute to environmental protection and mitigation measures against the adverse impact of the power engineering industry based on fossil fuels [9][10][11]. Lower content of ash and lower quantity of heavy metals released into the natural environment, owing to the use of biomass, accounts for the increasing popularity of this alternative energy source [12]. Reduction of emissions of hazardous substances into the atmosphere is currently necessary and is required by different international political and economic organizations [13]. The reduction of package emissions of harmful substances necessitates the search for new ecological solutions of production of different types of energy [14,15].Pol. J. Environ. Stud. Vol. 24, No. 5 (2015), 2055-2061 Original Research Diversification and Environmental Impact AbstractThis paper studies energy and environmental indicators of biomass in the form of vegetables as input resources, i.e. Virginia mallow, Miscanthus (x) giganteus, Jerusalem artichoke, prairie cordgrass, barley straw, wheat straw, rye straw, corn straw, rapeseed straw, meadow hay, and pine shavings. The study involved the measurement of physical and chemical properties, including the heat of combustion and calorific value of the input resources under consideration. It has been proven that pine shavings have the highest calorific value and that the heat of combustion amounts to 19.20 MJ⋅kg -1 for calorific value and 17.85 MJ⋅kg -1 for heat of combustion with moisture content of 7.23%. The measurement of ash content has been the one of the main aims of the study. Jerusalem artichoke has posted the highest value at 14.69%, and pine shavings the lowest at 0.85%. An eco-balance of environmental impact of respective input resources has been developed by means of the EI environmenta...

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Diversification and Environmental Impact Assessment of Plant Biomass Energy Use

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2015

Pol. J. Environ. Stud.

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“…The National Renewable Energy Action Plans (NREAP) passed in 2010 set a binding target that the share of renewable energies in gross final energy consumption should be 18% by 2020 (that was 10% in 2009). The Action Plans also gave the specific development goals: the share of renewable energies in the heating/cooling sectors will be 15.5%, in the transport sector 13.2%, while in the electricity sector it will reach to 38.6% [27]. In order to accelerate the development of renewable energy in Germany, the Federal Government at the EU's Climate and Energy Summit brought forth the goals of 2020 for the share of renewable energies in gross final energy consumption.…”

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An overview of biofuels policies and industrialization in the major biofuel producing countries

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2015

Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews

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“…From 1990 to the 2010s, a wide range of CHP plants was developed, including pellet stirling, micro‐CHP plants and CHP plants with fuel cells . In 1993, Germany's first municipal straw heating plant with a capacity of 3.15 MW, based on the cigar burning principle, went into operation in eastern Thuringia.…”

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One Century of Bioenergy in Germany: Wildcard and Advanced Technology

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Thrän

2018

Chemie Ingenieur Technik

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Bioenergy is the oldest renewable energy resource and has a long tradition in heat provision. However, with the establishment of the chemical industry and engineering the application field as extended to the power and the transport sector. This article outlines the development of power and fuel production from biomass over a period of hundred years until today, as well as future prospects. The crucial technical innovations of bioenergy with regard to political and historical events are reflected. Despite of improvements in the last decades, mainly associated with issues like resource availability, technical efficiency or emission mitigation, the future energy supply by biomass has to be even more efficient, demand‐oriented and integrated step‐by‐step in a more renewable energy system.

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Impact of the Renewable Energy Sources Act in Germany on electricity produced with solid biofuels – Lessons learned by monitoring the market development

Cited by 18 publications

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Diversification and Environmental Impact Assessment of Plant Biomass Energy Use

Diversification and Environmental Impact Assessment of Plant Biomass Energy Use

An overview of biofuels policies and industrialization in the major biofuel producing countries

One Century of Bioenergy in Germany: Wildcard and Advanced Technology

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