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Article Dans Une Revue Nature Communications Année : 2021

Spatially explicit analysis identifies significant potential for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage in China

Junji Cao
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Olivier Boucher
Daniel Goll
Josep Peñuelas
Ivan A Janssens
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James Clark
Jianmin Ma
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Bo Pan
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Guofeng Shen
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Wei Li
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As China ramped-up coal power capacities rapidly while CO 2 emissions need to decline, these capacities would turn into stranded assets. To deal with this risk, a promising option is to retrofit these capacities to co-fire with biomass and eventually upgrade to CCS operation (BECCS), but the feasibility is debated with respect to negative impacts on broader sustainability issues. Here we present a data-rich spatially explicit approach to estimate the marginal cost curve for decarbonizing the power sector in China with BECCS. We identify a potential of 222 GW of power capacities in 2836 counties generated by co-firing 0.9 Gt of biomass from the same county, with half being agricultural residues. Our spatially explicit method helps to reduce uncertainty in the economic costs and emissions of BECCS, identify the best opportunities for bioenergy and show the limitations by logistical challenges to achieve carbon neutrality in the power sector with large-scale BECCS in China.
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hal-03252768 , version 1 (07-06-2021)

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Xiaofan Xing, Rong Wang, Nico Bauer, Philippe Ciais, Junji Cao, et al.. Spatially explicit analysis identifies significant potential for bioenergy with carbon capture and storage in China. Nature Communications, 2021, 12 (1), ⟨10.1038/s41467-021-23282-x⟩. ⟨hal-03252768⟩
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