The Assessment of the Energy Potential of Biomass of Animal and Plant Origin in the Context of Local Development: The Case of Turkey

Turgut Bayramoğlu () and Sevda Yaprakli ()
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Turgut Bayramoğlu: Assist. Prof. Dr. Bayburt University, Department of Economics, Bayburt
Sevda Yaprakli: Prof. Dr. Atatürk Univesity, Department of Economics, Erzurum

Global Economic Observer, 2016, vol. 4, issue 2, 107-116

Abstract: This study was carried out because of the importance of energy of biomass, which is one of the renewable energy sources, for such country as Turkey having a production potential of biomass energy raw materials. Biomass energy has become a subject emphasized in Turkey as well as in the world after the 2000s and investigated in economic, environmental and social dimensions. With this study assessing the effects brought about by biomass production and consumption in the context of local development, Turkey’s theoretical potential of plant origin was found as 5.527 TOE and its economic potential was found as 4.421 TOE, and the biomass energy achieved the energy value of 949.308 TOE that can be produced economically based on animal sources. At the same time, Turkey is a country that has not completed its development. In the case of the production of this amount of biomass energy that has been calculated potentially, its contributions to the local development and its positive and negative sides have been examined. Some of these are the series of contributions such as rural employment, an increase in the income level, technological development, reduction of migration and healthy living conditions. The effect of biomass energy production on food supply, the fact that biomass sources are inputs for some sectors such as construction sector, and the less energy content in comparison with fossil fuels can be considered as negative effects on local development. In this study, the economic potential for biomass energy production in Turkey, which is not sufficiently studied in the literature, was calculated, and the potential of biomass of plant and animal origin for Turkey was calculated for the first time. The effects of this potential on Turkey’s development were examined.

Keywords: Biomass of Plant Origin; Biomas of Animal Origin; Local Development; Turkey (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2016-11
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