Xing et al. (2024): A review of influencing factors for policy interventions in the deployment of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage

Xiaofan Xing, Yuankang Xiong, Rong Wang, Yuan Gao, Siqing Xu, Philippe Ciais, Thomas Gasser, Josep Penuelas, Jordi Sardans, Jianmin Chen, Tang Xu, Renhe Zhang IN: Next Sustainability, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.nxsust.2024.100040

This paper reviews the latest understanding of BECCS. The key findings reveal the limitations of current models in projecting the capacity and costs of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), mainly due to insufficient consideration of ecological consequences, including availabilities of biomass and difficulties in the transportation of biomass and CO₂. To reduce uncertainties in the capacity and costs of BECCS, it is urgently needed to apply spatially explicit method for estimating the life-cycle emissions and the complete cost items when deploying BECCS, optimize the network of biomass acquisition, power plants retrofitting and transportation of biomass and CO₂, and represent the changes in the availability of biomass (for different types of bioenergy plants) under the impacts of climate change.

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