Abstract
This paper surveys the status and future prospects of bioenergy renewable energy source (RES) hybrids, i.e. energy conversion processes that have at least two renewable energy inputs, one of which is bioenergy. Finland, Austria, Germany and Denmark were the case study countries. We found that the implementation of bioenergy RES hybrids was already ongoing in various sectors, but a majority of them was focused on domestic heating applications. Bioenergy can be used to provide flexible resources for both energy supply and energy storage. An important motivation behind hybrid systems is the possibility of switching between different energy sources in an optimal way. No significant technical limitations were identified for surveyed hybrid systems, but the future economic potential of bioenergy RES hybrids remains difficult to estimate as the value of flexibility cannot be assessed in isolation from the energy system.
| Original language | English |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1402-1416 |
| Journal | Biofuels, Bioproducts and Biorefining |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue number | 6 |
| DOIs | |
| Publication status | Published - 1 Nov 2019 |
| MoE publication type | A1 Journal article-refereed |
Funding
The authors gratefully thank VTT, IEA Bioenergy, and the European Commission for supporting this work as well as Dr-Ing. Anders Ortwein and Dr Ernst Höftberger for cooperation in the IEA Bioenergy Task 41 Project 7 ‘Bioenergy RES hybrids’, which laid the foundations for our present work.
UN SDGs
This output contributes to the following UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
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SDG 7 Affordable and Clean Energy
Keywords
- bioenergy
- bioenergy RES hybrid
- energy production
- energy storage
- flexibility
- renewable energies
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