Tag: BECCS

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Prütz et al. (2026): Biodiversity implications of land-intensive carbon dioxide removal

Ruben Prütz, Joeri Rogelj, Gaurav Ganti, Jeff Price, Rachel Warren, Nicole Forstenhäusler, Yazhen Wu, Andrey Lessa Derci Augustynczik, Michael Wögerer, Tamás Krisztin, Petr Havlík, Florian Kraxner, Stefan Frank, Tomoko Hasegawa, Jonathan C. Doelman, Vassilis Daioglou, Florian Humpenöder, Alexander Popp and Sabine Fuss, IN: Nature Climate Change, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41558-026-02557-5

Pathways consistent with global climate objectives typically deploy billions of tonnes of carbon dioxide removal (CDR) from land-intensive methods such as forestation and bioenergy with carbon capture and storage. Such large-scale deployment of land-intensive CDR may have negative consequences for biodiversity. Here the authors assess scenarios across five integrated assessment models and show that scenarios consistent with limiting warming to 1.5 °C allocate up to 13% of global areas of high biodiversity importance for land-intensive CDR.

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Morizet-Davis et al. (2025): Environmental Life Cycle Assessment and Techno-Economic Analysis of Textile Waste Valorization via Modular Bioenergy with Carbon Capture, Utilization, and Storage

Jonathan Morizet-Davis, Yaojing Qiu, June Khongpatimakorn, Jesse Daystar, Kai Lan, Sunkyu Park, William Joe Sagues and Richard A. Venditti, IN: BioEnergy Research, https://doi.org/10.1007/s12155-025-10909-w

This study evaluates the techno-economic feasibility and environmental performance of small-scale modular BECCS systems that process textile waste to produce electricity and achieve net-negative emissions.

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Rácz et al. (2025): Optimal biomass allocation between forestry sinks and energy systems by an integrated modelling approach – decarbonization pathways for Hungary

Viktor József Rácz, András Mezősi and Gabriella Szajkó, IN: Climate Policy, https://doi.org/10.1080/14693062.2025.2603032

The present study investigates the optimal integrated greenhouse gas emission abatement strategy for the forest and energy sectors. To this end, a cross-sectoral modelling approach is employed, utilizing two sectoral models and applying them to the case of Hungary.

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Sathyanadh et al. (2025): Efficacy of individual and combined terrestrial and marine carbon dioxide removal

Anusha Sathyanadh, Homa Esfandiari, Timothée Bourgeois, Jörg Schwinger, Tommi Bergman, Antti-Ilari Partanen, Matvey Debolskiy, Miriam Seifert, David Keller and Helene Muri, IN: Environmental Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2af5

Limiting global temperature rise below 2 °C requires significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and likely large-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR). This study assesses the CO₂ sequestration and efficacy of two CDR approaches, Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) and Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE), applied individually and in combination. Using the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM2-LM), simulations were designed to ramp up deployment of BECCS and OAE, to an additional area of 5.2 million km² by 2100 for bioenergy feedstock for BECCS, and a CaO deployment rate of approximately 2.7 Gt/year for OAE within the exclusive economic zones of Europe, the United States and China.

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Sathyanadh et al. (2025): Efficacy of individual and combined terrestrial and marine carbon dioxide removal

Anusha Sathyanadh, Homa Esfandiari, Timothée Bourgeois, Jörg Schwinger, Tommi Bergman, Antti-Ilari Partanen, Matvey Debolskiy, Miriam Seifert, David Keller and Helene Muri, IN: Environmental Research Letters, https://doi.org/10.1088/1748-9326/ae2af5

Limiting global temperature rise below 2°C requires significant reduction in greenhouse gas emissions and likely large-scale carbon dioxide removal (CDR). This study assesses the CO₂ sequestration and efficacy of two CDR approaches, Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) and Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE), applied individually and in combination. Using the Norwegian Earth System Model (NorESM2-LM), simulations were designed to ramp up deployment of BECCS and OAE, to an additional area of 5.2 million km² by 2100 for bioenergy feedstock for BECCS, and a CaO deployment rate of approximately 2.7 Gt/year for OAE within the exclusive economic zones of Europe, the United States and China.

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Pokharel et al. (2025): Assessing feedstock availability and cost of biomass to convert a coal-fired power plant to a biopower facility with BECCS technology

Raju Pokharel, Greg Latta, Jagdish Poudel, Emily Silver, Shivan Gc, IN: Renewable Energy, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.renene.2025.118040

Transitioning the TES Filer City Station, a coal-fired power plant, to biopower is expected to utilize 680,000 green short tons (616,889 metric tons) of biomass annually. This study evaluates the availability and cost of woody biomass feedstocks over 15 years using network analysis in GIS and the Land Utilization and Resource Allocation (LURA) model across eight scenarios.

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Alvarado Cummings et al. (2025): Comparing GHG Emissions of Residue-Based BECCS to Alternative Biomass Uses

Susan Caroline Alvarado Cummings, Martin Junginger, Steef V. Hanssen, Floor van der Hilst, Anna Sarah Duden, IN: Global Change Biology Bioenergy, https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.70089

Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) holds promise for achieving negative greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions while generating electricity. When using forestry or agricultural residues as feedstock, BECCS may also avoid or reduce land-use based impacts compared to dedicated energy crops. It is, however, unclear how negative emissions from residue-based BECCS compare to alternative uses (bioenergy with no CCS, 2G ethanol, paper and boards, animal feed and decomposition) and how quickly BECCS can achieve climate benefits compared to these other uses. In this study, the authors used life-cycle assessment (LCA) to quantify supply chain emissions of BECCS for two power plants in the Netherlands, using residue-based wood pellets from Louisiana, USA, and sugarcane bagasse pellets from Louisiana and São Paulo, Brazil, as feedstock.

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Medeiros et al. (2025): Arundo Donax power plant with sodium chloride batch mineralization: Bioenergy with carbon capture and utilization

José Luiz de Medeiros, Igor Nunes Rodrigues, Alex Miranda Constantino, Israel Bernardo S. Poblete, Ofélia de Queiroz F. Araújo, IN: Applied Thermal Engineering, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.applthermaleng.2025.129095

Processes that export bioenergy, capture carbon, and produce commodities from raw-materials are worthwhile because unite negative carbon emissions with profitability. This work discusses a novel large-scale bioenergy with carbon capture and utilization process employing Arundo Donax power plant coupled to sodium chloride carbon mineralization.

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Ingram et al. (2025): Discourse, discursive power, and Social License to Operate: The case of bioenergy with carbon capture and storage in the United Kingdom

Julie Ingram, Rhian Brimble and Jane Mills, IN: Energy Research & Social Science, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.erss.2025.104396

BECCS, with the upscaling of domestic biomass feedstock, is envisaged to play an important role in meeting the UK’s net zero commitments. However, BECCS is controversial which has implications for social acceptability. This paper aims to examine how discourse and discursive power of different groups engaged in the debates about BECCS can condition a Social License to Operate (SLO). It contributes to a growing body of critical social science studies of CCS and advances SLO scholarship by integrating the concept of discourse.

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Meril et al. (2025): Evaluating CO₂ Removal Technologies: A Life Cycle Assessment for Effective Climate Change Mitigation

Divya Meril, Piliyan Raju, Felix Sugantham and Santhanam Perumal, IN: In: Advances in Sustainable Energy and Environmental Systems, Springer Nature, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-95-0409-1_21

Climate change is an urgent global crisis, driven by rising atmospheric CO₂ levels that threaten both ecosystems and human societies. While reducing emissions remains essential, carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technologies are increasingly vital for achieving net-zero and net-negative targets, especially in hard-to-abate sectors. This review critically assesses the environmental sustainability of key CDR approaches—Direct Air Capture (DAC), bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS), afforestation/reforestation, ocean alkalinity enhancement, and soil carbon sequestration—using the Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) framework.

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