Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS)

Craig Jamieson World Agroforestry Centre, Los Banos, Philippines

Five Questions to Answer

1. What is BECCS?
2. What is the Scale of the Resource? 3. What are the Prerequisites for Implementation? 4. What is the Status of R&D, Demonstration? 5. How can Access to C-Negative Energy be Accelerated?

1. What is BECCS?
Bio-Energy with Carbon Capture and Storage
Same as fossil fuels, but with bioenergy Suitable for: Rationale
Capture is most expensive part

How does it work?

Making use of plants ability to capture and store CO2 Richard Branson!

2. Scale of the Resource?

Source: IEA Bioenergy 2009

3. Prerequisites
Sustainable Feedstock Supply
E.g. IFES (right)

Certification (Add Labels)

Supportive Policies
Market Mechanisms Price for Carbon

4. Status of R,D&D
Demonstration and Integration Projects Carbon8

5. Accelerating access to BECCS

Most demonstrations are in Europe and North America Most roll-out will be in Africa, South America and Asia
Feasibility study for hub in a developing Asian country

CCS v CCU?

Thank-you!
c.jamieson@cgiar.org

Strategy for Philippines/Asia?

Los Baos: a Major Agri-environment Hub
Research Demonstration Scaling-up New business models Co-ordination Knowledge-sharing Policy Science and Nature

Quotations on BECCS / NETs

Negative emissions techniques would be hugely beneficial if we can get them to be effective, safe and economically deployable. An interdisciplinary research effort into these techniques is urgently needed, in large part to explore their potential whole-of-system costs. Oxford University Website Princeton Environmental Institute, Princeton University BECCS stands out as a viable, cost effective method to significantly reduce atmospheric CO2 concentrationsThis report depicts the 16 first projects worldwide aiming to install a BECCS processThe listed projects are mostly located in Europe and North America, but the majority of future BECCS systems are expected to be found in South America, Asia and Africa. Global Status of BECCS Projects 2010, GCCSI.

How Much Bioenergy?

Current world energy demand:

500 EJ / yr

GHG Balance