Planning Alternatives for biomass production by a Strategic Cost Analysis of biomass resources

Abstract:- Biomass energy systems are the only uniform sustainable systems achieving continuous power on a high level. Any other uniform sustainable energy system is dependent on sporadic energy inputs [1]. The contribution of this paper is situated within the frame of an exemplary designing of optimized regional type, quantity and location of biomass energy facilities based on an economic efficiency calculation. Several requirements have to be implemented in this calculation. Being one of these requirements and the contribution of this paper, the Strategic Cost Analysis of biomass resources has to be established. In order to analyze the costs, the biomass types and the cost categories have to be defined in a strategic context. This elaborated Strategic Cost Analysis results in Planning Alternatives on the topic of long-termed planning decisions, e.g. the external processing of biomass production vs. supervision of the planning authorities or purchase vs. rental vs. external processing of agricultural machines