The Energy Technologies Institute (ETI) has appointed consultancy Baringa Partners to lead a new project examining the future of biomass logistics in the UK.
The six-month project will model the logistics requirements of several future bioenergy scenarios, identifying the actions required to support the sector through 2050.
It will also identify and draw on lessons learned from the development of other relevant commodity sectors.
Baringa will work on the project alongside Ecofys and LLamasoft, the consultants said.
ETI – a partnership between BP, Caterpillar, EDF, Rolls-Royce, Shell and the UK government – aims to accelerate the development of low-carbon technologies.
“To ensure that the UK can develop a bioenergy sector that delivers genuine carbon savings, greater understanding is needed of the logistics requirements for both domestic and imported feedstocks, across different future bioenergy scenarios,” ETI bioenergy project manager Andrew Thomas said.
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Biomass success for Baringa
Energy Technologies Institute deal to examine UK bioenergy logistics
By EBS