White paper: Sustainably Sourcing Biomass Feedstocks For Bioenergy With Carbon Capture And Storage In The United States
John Field, Keith L. Kline, Matthew Langholtz, Nagendra Singh; EFI Foundation
This analysis finds a substantial renewable biomass resource in the United States to support BECCS as a negative-emissions strategy. Mobilization of these biomass resources for BECCS and other sectors can reduce risks associated with increasing atmospheric CO2 concentrations and provide positive socioeconomic and sustainability benefits. The authors estimate that the current scale of the US bioenergy sector—approximately 360 million dry metric tonnes (MMT) of plant-derived feedstocks produced per year—can be doubled with existing resources (wastes, residues, and forest management) in the near term, and can be more than tripled with investments to increase production and develop efficient supply chains.