ORNL work a key part of new report from the Department of Energy
The study examined the role of biomass in reducing greenhouse gas emissions across the economy, including opportunities to reach negative emissions.
The United States has enough biomass potential to produce 35 billion gallons per year of aviation biofuel by 2050, a new report from the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) confirms.
Oak Ridge National Laboratory’s (ORNL) John Field provided biomass feedstock production expertise to the report, which was produced by DOE’s DECARB program and focused on the role of the bioeconomy in U.S. decarbonization strategies.
The report examined the role of biomass in reducing greenhouse gas emissions across the economy, including opportunities to reach negative emissions. It includes data from the ORNL-led 2016 Billion-Ton Report that identified potential biomass from agricultural and forestry residues, wastes and bioenergy crops.
The latest 2023 Billion-Ton Report identifies up to 1.7 billion tons per year of potential biomass, including winter oilseed crops for jet biofuels. Carbon-negative bioenergy is expected to be essential to a net-zero emissions economy and could account for 4 to 11 percent of the nation’s total energy mix by 2050, according to the DECARB report.
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