JOURNAL: Putting bioenergy with carbon capture and storage in a spatial context: What should go where?
Summary
Authors:
Muir Freer
Clair Gough
Andrew Welfle
Amanda Lea-Langton
University of Manchester
Putting bioenergy with carbon capture and storage in a spatial context: What should go where?
Frontiers in Climate
March 2022
This paper explores the implications to carbon emissions and scalability of co-locating BECCS facilities. Using a spatial modelling approach, it analyses five BECCS supply chains all located within the North-West industrial cluster, showing the potential for diverse BECCS supply chains with a range of feedstocks and energy vectors (including biofuels, sustainable aviation fuels, and hydrogen). The study finds that competition for biomass resources, considering both existing and future novel industrial biomass users, may have significant impact on biomass availability. Co-locating supply chains brings opportunities for sharing infrastructure but a coordinated approach which balances biomass sourcing and energy end-users is needed.