Sustainable bioenergy options for Mexico: GHG mitigation and costs. (March 2015)

• Record Type: Journal Article
• Authors: García, Carlos A.; Riegelhaupt, Enrique; Ghilardi, Adrián; Skutsch, Margaret; Islas, Jorge; Manzini, Fabio; Masera, Omar
• Is Part Of: Renewable & sustainable energy reviews. Volume 43(2015:Mar.)
• Page Start: 545
• Page End: 552
• Publication Date: 2015-03
• Subjects: BAU business as usual -- CFE Comisión Federal de Electricidad (public electric company) -- CH4 methane -- CO2 carbon dioxide -- CO2e equivalent carbon dioxide -- DM dry matter -- DOE-EIA Department of Energy-Energy Information Administration -- EUF energy use factor -- gCO2e gram of equivalent carbon dioxide -- GHG greenhouse gas -- km kilometers -- LCA life cycle assessment -- LULCC land use land cover change -- M million -- MAI mean annual increment -- Mbpd million barrels per day -- Mha millon of hectares -- MJ megajoule -- MtCO2e million tonne of equivalent carbon dioxide -- MUSD Million of United States Dollar -- MW megawatt -- NPV net present value -- PEMEX Petróleos Mexicanos (public petroleum company) -- PJ Petajoule -- RE renewable energy -- t tonne -- tCO2e tonne of equivalent carbon dioxide -- TW h terawatt hour -- USD United States Dollar -- yr year; Energy systems -- Carbon emissions -- Sustainability -- Potential -- Land use; Renewable energy sources -- Periodicals; Power resources -- Periodicals; Énergies renouvelables -- Périodiques; Ressources énergétiques -- Périodiques; 333.794
• DOI: 10.1016/j.rser.2014.11.062
• Languages: English
• ISSNs: 1364-0321

Abstract

Abstract: Appropriately implemented bioenergy could be a renewable source of energy contributing to fossil fuels substitution and greenhouse gas (GHG) mitigation in Mexico. This work explores eleven bioenergy options with environmentally sustainable biomass production potential. Mature and widely used technologies for biomass transformation are selected. Mitigation costs and investments are calculated for each option. The options cover electricity, heat, and mobile power for use in the agricultural, industrial, transport, services and residential sectors. By the year 2035 the set of bioenergy options considered could replace 16% of the final energy consumption currently provided by fossil fuels, and could mitigate 17% of GHG emissions compared to the baseline. Wood pellets for industrial, efficient cook stoves and efficient charcoal kilns show negative mitigation costs and low investment requirements, and are thus promising as regards implementation in the short to mid-term. Liquid biofuels on the other hand show high mitigation costs and low to high mitigation potential, depending on the feedstock, although most of these options also offer important sustainable development co-benefits.