KRÁLÍK, T., et al. IMPACT OF PELLETING COST ON COMPETITIVENESS OF INTENTIONALLY GROWN BIOMASS FOR LOCAL SPACE HEATING: CASE EXAMPLE OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC. In: ICEER 2019 The 6th International Conference On Energy and Environment Research Book of Abstracts. ICEER 2019 The 6th International Conference On Energy and Environment Research, Aveiro, 2019-07-22/2019-07-25. Instituto Superior de Engenharia do Porto, 2019. p. 211-212. ISBN 9789895423682.
Biomass plays a dominant role in the EU RES portfolio, especially in CE countries. Further development of the use of biomass will require its targeted cultivation on agricultural land. Pellets and briquettes from locally produced biomass can serve as a substitute for coal widely used for local heating to date. The most suitable for the production of pellets for local heating is chips from SRC plantations. The price of biofuels thus produced, respecting the whole production cycle from biomass cultivation to pelleting, ranges from 7.0 to 12.2 EUR/GJ in the Czech Republic. To achieve competitiveness with domestic brown coal (6.4 EUR/GJ), it would be necessary either to increase the ecological tax on coal 10x (to about 3.3EUR GJ) or to subsidize the establishment of the plantation or to double the area subsidy per year.
