Competitive priorities to address optimisation in biomass value chains: The case of biomass CHP

Q1 Social Sciences
Calliope Panoutsou, Asha Singh, Thomas Christensen, Luc Pelkmans
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Abstract

Policy and industry decision makers place high priority on the contribution of biomass to the emerging low carbon, circular economy. Optimisation of performance, from the perspectives of environmental, social and economic sustainability and resource efficiency, is essential to successful development and operation of biomass value chains. The complexity of value chains, which comprise interrelated stages from land use to conversion and multiple end products, presents challenges.

To date, decision makers have approached from the viewpoints of single market sectors or issues, such as market shares of bioeconomy and reduction of carbon emissions to mitigate climate change. This approach does not achieve a full understanding of value chains and their competitive priorities, limits consumer awareness, and poses risks of sub-optimal performance and under-development of potential local capacity.

This paper presents a conceptual framework that combines value chain analysis and competitive priority theory with indicators suitable to measure, monitor and interpret sustainability and resource efficiency at value chain level. The case of biomass Combined Heat and Power (CHP) is used to illustrate how optimisation strategies can be focused to address challenges in value chain stages which will lead to better performance and uptake of sustainably sourced, widely accepted biomass options.

解决生物质价值链优化的竞争优先权:生物质热电联产案例
政策和行业决策者高度重视生物质对新兴低碳循环经济的贡献。从环境、社会和经济可持续性以及资源效率的角度来看,绩效优化对于成功开发和运营生物质价值链至关重要。价值链的复杂性,包括从土地利用到转换和多种最终产品的相互关联的阶段,提出了挑战。迄今为止,决策者从单一市场部门或问题的角度进行处理,例如生物经济的市场份额和减少碳排放以减缓气候变化。这种方法不能充分理解价值链及其竞争重点,限制了消费者的意识,并带来了性能不佳和潜在本地能力开发不足的风险。本文提出了一个概念框架,将价值链分析和竞争优先理论与适合在价值链层面测量、监测和解释可持续性和资源效率的指标相结合。生物质热电联产(CHP)的案例用于说明如何将优化策略集中于解决价值链阶段的挑战,这将导致更好的性能和可持续来源的吸收,广泛接受的生物质选择。
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Global Transitions
Global Transitions Social Sciences-Development
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