a Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, 164 Food Safety and Toxicology Building, Michigan State University, East Lansing, MI 48824, United States b Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Michigan State University, Agriculture Hall, 446 W Circle Dr., East Lansing, MI 48824-1039, United States c Department of Entomology, DOE Great Lakes Bioenergy Research Center, Unive...

This study analyses the Russian forest biomass-based bioenergy sector. It is shown that presently – although given abundant resources – the share of heat and electricity from biomass is very minor. With the help of 2 IIASA model, future green-field bioenergy plants are identified in a geographically explicit way. Results indicate that by only using 3.3% of the total wood removals, twice as much...

The global sustainable bioenergy (GSB) project was formed in 2009 with the goal of providing guidance with respect to the feasibility and desirability of sustainable, bioenergy-intensive futures. Stage 1 of this project held conventions with a largely common format on each of the world's continents, was completed in 2010, and is described in this paper. Attended by over 400 persons, the five co...

In the coming century, modern bioenergy crops have the potential to play a crucial role in the global energy mix, especially under policies to reduce carbon dioxide emissions as proposed by many in the international community. Previous studies have not fully addressed many of the dynamic interactions and effects of a policy-induced expansion of bioenergy crop production, particularly on crop yi...

This editorial will introduce a set of seven articles appearing in this Special Issue on Pan American biofuel and bioenergy sustainability. We will discuss the importance of sustainability in biofuel and bioenergy development and rationale for a focus on the Pan American region. These articles are one outcome of a US National Science Foundation-funded project, and we will list the project goal,...

Local bioenergy will play a crucial role in national and regional sustainable energy strategies. Effective siting and feedstock procurement strategies are critical to the development and implementation of bioenergy systems. This paper aims to improve spatial decision-support in this domain by shifting focus from homogenous (forestry or agricultural) regions toward heterogeneous regions—i.e., ar...

Citation: Markussen MV, Pugesgaard S, Oleskowicz-Popiel P, Schmidt JE and Østergård H (2015) Net-Energy Analysis of Integrated Food and Bioenergy Systems Exemplified by a Model of a Self-Sufficient System of Dairy Farms. Front. Energy Res. 3:49. doi: 10.3389/fenrg.2015.00049 net-energy analysis of integrated Food and Bioenergy systems exemplified by a Model of a selfsufficient system of Dairy F...

Shrub willow, Salix spp. and hybrids, is an important bioenergy crop. Here we report the whole-genome sequences and annotation of 13 endophytic bacteria from stem tissues of Salix purpurea grown in nature and from commercial cultivars and Salix viminalis × Salix miyabeana grown in bioenergy fields in Geneva, New York.

In Sweden, bioenergy use is promoted under the light of climate change mitigation and energy security. In 2009 31% of Sweden’s total energy supply was provided by bioenergy. Almost have of this energy is generated from forest biomass. Forestry has a long tradition in Sweden and sustainable resource management is advanced. However, the increased extraction of forest biomass results in export of ...

Forest harvest residues are important raw materials for bioenergy in regions practicing forestry. Removing these residues from a harvest site reduces the carbon stock of the forest compared with conventional stem-only harvest because less litter in left on the site. The indirect carbon dioxide (CO2) emission from producing bioenergy occur when carbon in the logging residues is emitted into the ...