Greenhouse Effect Reduction in Biomass Power Plant: A Case Study

Biomass power plants are among the renewable energy sources to which China is committed. These projects will reduce the greenhouse effect from biomass caused by natural decay and uncontrolled burning, and also will reduce greenhouse effect related to the burning of fossil fuel for power production. A case study of straw power generation project in Xiajin country, Shandong province of China is discussed in this paper. The project is going to be built as a CDM - Clean Development Mechanism - project, meaning that it will trigger CO₂ credits which can be sold. The analyses are conducted based on methodology ACM0006 of CDM for the estimation of greenhouse effect reduction for the project´s baseline. It is found that the project will reduce emissions of about 2.906 million tones of CO₂e over the next 21-year lifetime, and at the same time, 150,000 MWh electricity will be produced per year. The evaluation of prices at links of purchase and storage straws and economic performance are also discussed in this paper.