The moderating role of biomass availability in biopower co-firing - A sensitivity analysis

We find that the cost of electricity generated is higher when biomass is cofired under all assumption. However, it finds significant and interesting interaction among the cost-related features. We are able to conclude that abundant and reasonably-priced biomass feedstocks can dramatically increase the feasibility of biopower by reducing transportation costs. Also, the scale of the technology must be right-large enough to exploit economies of scale but small enough to avoid high transportation costs incurred to procure large volumes of feedstocks.