Billion Ton Study II: Up to 1.6 billion tons of biomass available by 2030, says ORNL in new biomass survey
In Tennessee, a research team led by Oak Ridge National Laboratory projected that the US would have between 1.1 and 1.6 billion tons of available, sustainable biomass for industrial bioprocessing by 2030.
The update states: “in 2022…the feedstock shown in the baseline scenario account for conventional biofuels (corn grain ethanol and biodiesel) and shows 602 million dry tons of potential resource at $60 per dry ton….this potential resource is more than sufficient to provide feedstock to produce the required 20 billion gallons of cellulosic biofuels.”
The Digest will have a complete analysis of the Billion Ton Update available on Thursday, August 11.
Category: Fuels
