Biomass Cofiring in Coal Power Plants and its Impact on Agriculture in the United States

Jerome Dumortier ()

No 124944, 2012 Annual Meeting, August 12-14, 2012, Seattle, Washington from Agricultural and Applied Economics Association

Abstract: We analyze the effects on local biomass supply, demand, and prices of co-firing requirement for existing coal-fired power plants. The co-firing requirement is imposed on 398 existing power plants. The biomass feedstock can come from corn stover, wheat straw, switchgrass, and/or forest residues. Our model incorporates county-level biomass supply as well as national crop commodity demand. A solution to the model consists of county biomass prices and national crop prices.

Keywords: Biomass; co-firing; land-use; commodity prices; Resource/Energy; Economics; and; Policy (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Pages: 13
Date: 2012
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DOI: 10.22004/ag.econ.124944

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