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Coupling of energy and agricultural policies on promoting the production of biomass energy from energy crops and grasses in Taiwan

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Publisher
Elsevier Science
Year
2009
Tongue
English
Weight
146 KB
Volume
13
Category
Article
ISSN
1364-0321

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✦ Synopsis


This paper examined promotion programs and implementing regulations that provide a framework for the application of energy and agricultural policies for the local energy crops cultivation by the reactivation of fallow land (about 100,000 ha) and their utilizations in the bioenergy production in Taiwan. The contents were thus addressed on current energy supply and biomass energy production, estimation of carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions from energy use (consumption) using the Reference Approach of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) method, national energy goal in biomass energy supply in the near future, and government policies and measures for encouraging bioenergy production and consumption. For the promotion of biofuels, the incentive programs were initiated in the period of 2006-2011. The potential benefits of the program include the upgrade of industrial investment in the bioenergy plants, the reactivation of fallow land (about 100,000 ha), the mitigation of CO 2 emissions, and so on. Concerning the utilization of napier grass (a potential energy grass) as biomass energy (electricity generation) for co-firing, its impacts on ambient air quality and non-CO 2 greenhouse gases (i.e., CH 4 and N 2 O) emissions were also discussed in the paper.


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