Current state and future perspectives of biomass in the European Union: focusing on combined heat and power application (CHP)
Biomass is one of the Renewable Energy Sources (RES) that has a worldwide potential to be exploited, but, it seems not to be in the European Union (EU) countries, where the biomass potential is not fully manipulated. Bioheating and bioelectricity are the two applications of biomass which have a prac...
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2010
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4604/ http://eprints.uthm.edu.my/4604/1/WEC2010.pdf |
| Summary: | Biomass is one of the Renewable Energy Sources (RES) that has a worldwide potential to be exploited, but, it
seems not to be in the European Union (EU) countries, where the biomass potential is not fully manipulated.
Bioheating and bioelectricity are the two applications of biomass which have a practical gap that still need
specific enhancement in order to meet the Kyoto targets which are to increase the renewable energy share
gross consumption up to 12% as well as to abate CO2 emission by 2010. However, due to a lack of appropriate
legislative tools and policies mainly in bioheating and inefficient of bioelectricity itself, Kyoto target is likely far
to be achieved by the EU. Therefore, as far as this problem is concerned, implementation of cogeneration or so
called combined heat and power (CHP) system is considered as among the way that could be taken to solve this
problem. This is parallel to the Directive 2004/8/EC, 2004 that addresses about the advantages using this
system which can increase the overall energy performance and reduce CO2 emissions. In the future perspective
of EU, possessing abundant of solid biofuels make the CHP system is definitely relevant to be run. In fact, it is
not only in EU perspective but this concept can fortunately be generalized to the other regions all over the
world based on their climate, land availability as well as national policies. |
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