Assessing Economic Biomass Resource Potential for Bioenergy and Biobased Products

This project examines the economically feasible biomass supply for different types of future bioenergy, biofuel, and biobased products manufacturing facilities sited across the landscape. Gross and technically feasible feedstock supplies were previously assessed for California. This assessment extends that work by identifying supply curves (cost of supply by quantity delivered).

Adding cost information by road class and feedstock type allows optimization of facility scale or size by satisfying different well-defined objective functions such as minimizing total delivered feedstock cost to the facility or maximizing facility profit, including distribution of product (e.g., ethanol, electricity, composite materials, and other products).

Courtesy of California Biomass Collaborative.