(2011-4-1) Soaring fuel prices and an increase in energy demand make power generation from biomass more economically competitive than ever before and make Bio-power generation an industry with huge growth potential. Though experts insisted that despite the setback, nuclear power is the only way forward because none of renewable energy approaches so far is capable of providing the large amounts of electricity that can be produced with nuclear power, the Japan’s nuclear disaster, touched off by a powerful earthquake on March 11, followed by a tsunami, has raised serious doubts among the public at large about the nuclear energy.
The world began to rethink the plan on nuclear energy by expressing safety concerns about nuclear plants and slowing down development of nuclear power stations: Germany has closed nuclear power plants provisionally; Poland had heated debate over a planned switch to nuclear power. The market has changed greatly that the price of fossil oil and gas roared because the lower electricity generation from nuclear.
China's development is extremely energy intensive, because it's export and investment-led. These years, the development of Bio-power generation developed greatly. After the earthquake, it is said China may double solar goal. This sounds highly feasible: the alternative energy, like solar power and wind power (another form of solar power), biowaste energy and tidal energy, are prevailing for it is cost-effective and environment-friendly.
CCM has released its report on biopower-- Bio-power generation market in 2010. This report probed into this industry and make a forecast on China’s bio-power generation market in 2010~2015 through analysis on current bio-power market, 5 major feedstock supply, 4 generation technology, policies, achievements and limitations in China, thus to point out the weakness and growth point to better help the industry development and find more commercial opportunities.
The report mainly discussed the 5 feedstock supplies of bio-power generation: straw-fired power generation, bio-gasification power generation, biomass co-firing power generation, methane power generation and refuse incineration power generation. Co-firing is currently the most cost effective method for large scale power generation from biomass, with conversion efficiencies up to 45% and a pay back period of 2 years if a supply local low-cost biomass is available.
As a matter of fact, every type of energy has its downside and bottleneck, the future prospect of biomass energy will be bright in China after the immature technology is improved and the problem of raw materials shortage is resolved. On the other hand, it is suggested that the simplest way to solve the energy dilemma and fulfill the energy demand for economic growth is to cut energy demand through changing our lifestyles and economic development models.
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