Global energy demand and woody biomass

Abstract

Globally, by 2050 biomass could provide 3,000 TWh of electricity, or around 7.5% of the world’s generation, and could create 1.3 bill tons of CO2 equivalent emission savings per annum. In addition, biomass could provide 22 EJ of final heat consumption in industry and 24 EJ in the buildings sector by said year. Satisfying the demand will require around 5-7 billion dry tons of biomass by 2050 for electricity and heat production. Turkey’s annual biomass potential is about 120 million tons and the total biomass energy potential is about 36 Mtoe. The amount of usable biomass potential of Turkey is approximately 18 Mtoe. Turkey has the potential to produce 4.0 million tons of wood pellet has approximately 780 million dollars of market value by the help of existing woody biomass. Ukraine has the potential to increase renewable energy use tenfold from 87 PJ in 2009 to 870 PJ of the total final renewable energy in 2030. Out of this, 73% is accounted for heat, 20% by electricity generation, and 7 % by transport. Nearly 80% of this total comes from biomass technologies, power generation, and transport fuels. In Ukraine, annual imports of 150-750 TWh of primary energy would be needed to meet the contry’s targets. These imports will probably be in the form of pellets for the most part, due to their lower transport costs. The volumes above correspond to between 30 and 150 million tons of pellets for Ukraine.