The impact of German biogas production on European and global agricultural markets, land use and the environment

Britz, Wolfgang; Delzeit, Ruth

doi:10.1016/j.enpol.2013.06.123

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“…Haas et al, 2011;Britz and Delzeit, 2013) suggest that public support to renewable energy may distort entrepreneurial choices when subsidies assure higher profits at lower risk (as in the case of FITs) that, in turn, implies additional costs charged to taxpayers (Chinese et al, 2014). At a time of economic stagnation, public debate arose in Italy focusing on such high costs of renewable energy support (Galeotti, 2012(Galeotti, ) prompting, in 2012 the Italian Government to introduce an incentive structure tuned with those in force in other European countries (Hahn et al, 2010).…”

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The impact of different energy policy options on feedstock price and land demand for maize silage: The case of biogas in Lombardy

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The impact of different energy policy options on feedstock price and land demand for maize silage: The case of biogas in Lombardy

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“…For example, the significant land use change outside of Germany is caused by German biogas production that is large enough to have sizeable effect on global agricultural markets in prices and quantities. It is also confirmed that profits in the agricultural sector increase, nevertheless, food consumers face higher prices and subsidies for biogas production are passed on the electricity consumers (Britz and Delzeit 2013). Looking at the impacts of biogas production, biogas production has also resulted in distortions in agricultural and land markets due to high guaranteed energy prices.…”

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Consequences of maize cultivation intended for biogas production

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A standard concept of biogas plants -strong maize silage concept is due to its high economic advantage as the maize silage is one of the most eff ective substrate for anaerobic digestion in matter of biogas yield. Increasing demand for maize silage, refl ected in a rise of its price, endangers the economic eff ectiveness and therefore economic sustainability of the biogas sector. Th is situation also creates negative externalities related to upward pressure on food prices and lower livestock production. Moreover, biogas plants focused primarily on maize silage could increase the area of arable land for growing maize for energy purposes and decline the production of crops for human nutrition. Th e paper focuses on examination of consequences of maize cultivation intended for biogas production in case of Slovakia. Th e results show the impact of biogas production via anaerobic digestion on area of land used for maize production and live bovine animal production.

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“…In Germany, rather strong incentives have been set to produce biogas with the Renewable Energy Sources Act in the year 2000 and several following amendments, which triggered a boom of biogas from dedicated energy crops [3]. In 2015, about 8000 biogas plants digested agricultural feedstock in Germany [4].…”

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“…ha from 5.1 million ha in 2001 to 4.6 million ha in 2011 [14], which at least partly can be explained by an increased demand for cropland. Britz and Delzeit [3] estimate in model simulations a reduction of 200 tsd. ha grassland as a consequence of the amendment to the Renewable Energy Act in 2009 after eleven years.…”

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Comparative Advantage of Maize- and Grass-Silage Based Feedstock for Biogas Production with Respect to Greenhouse Gas Mitigation

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This paper analyses the comparative advantage of using silage maize or grass as feedstock for anaerobic digestion to biogas from a greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation point of view, taking into account site-specific yield potentials, management options, and land-use change effects. GHG emissions due to the production of biogas were calculated using a life-cycle assessment approach for three different site conditions with specific yield potentials and adjusted management options. While for the use of silage maize, GHG emissions per energy unit were the same for different yield potentials, and the emissions varied substantially for different grassland systems. Without land-use change effects, silage maize-based biogas had lower GHG emissions per energy unit compared to grass-based biogas. Taking land-use change into account, results in a comparative advantage of biogas production from grass-based feedstock produced on arable land compared to silage maize-based feedstock. However, under current frame conditions, it is quite unrealistic that grass production systems would be established on arable land at larger scale.

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The impact of German biogas production on European and global agricultural markets, land use and the environment

Cited by 78 publications

References 8 publications

The impact of different energy policy options on feedstock price and land demand for maize silage: The case of biogas in Lombardy

The impact of different energy policy options on feedstock price and land demand for maize silage: The case of biogas in Lombardy

Consequences of maize cultivation intended for biogas production

Comparative Advantage of Maize- and Grass-Silage Based Feedstock for Biogas Production with Respect to Greenhouse Gas Mitigation

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