Carbon payback period and carbon offset parity point of wood pellet production in the South-eastern United States

Jan Gerrit Geurt Jonker; Martin Junginger; Andre Faaij

doi:10.1111/gcbb.12056

Carbon payback period and carbon offset parity point of wood pellet production in the South-eastern United States

Jan Gerrit Geurt Jonker^*, Martin Junginger, Andre Faaij

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Utrecht University

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This study examines the effect of methodological choices to determine the carbon payback time and the offset parity point for wood pellet production from softwood plantations in the South-eastern United States. Using the carbon accounting model GORCAM we model low-, medium-and high-intensity plantation management scenarios for a single stand level, an increasing stand level and a landscape level. Other variables are the fossil-fuel reference system and the electrical conversion efficiency. Due to the large amount of possible methodological choices and reference systems, there is a wide range of payback times (

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	371-389
Number of pages	19
Journal	GCB Bioenergy [E]
Volume	6
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1111/gcbb.12056
Publication status	Published - Jul 2014

Keywords

bioenergy
carbon debt
carbon parity offset
carbon payback
Wood pellets
FOREST
SEQUESTRATION
IMPACTS
COSTS
PLANTATIONS
STRATEGIES
TRANSPORT
STORAGE
EUROPE
MODEL
valorisation

UN SDGs

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Carbon payback period and carbon offset parity point of wood pellet production in the South-eastern United States

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