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June 29, 2016

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(U.S. Department of Energy) Alison Goss Eng, of the U.S. Department of Energy Bioenergy Technologies Office, Tim Theiss, Laboratory Relationship Manager of the Bioenergy Technologies Program at Oak Ridge National Laboratory, and Tim Rials, Director of the Tennessee Forest Products Center, provide background and their insights into the production and contents of the soon-to-be-released 2016 Billion-Ton Report.

Like the 2005 Billion-Ton Study and the 2011 U.S. Billion-Ton Update, analysis in the new 2016 Billion-Ton Report shows that the United States has the potential to sustainably produce at least one billion dry tons of nonfood biomass resources annually by the year 2040.

At Bioenergy 2016, the Bioenergy Technologies Office and Oak Ridge National Laboratory will release the 2016 Billion-Ton Report, volume 1, with its added technical rigor and both resource and economic analysis. The 2016 Billion-Ton Report updates and expands the analysis in the 2011 U.S. Billion-Ton Update, while adding analysis of biomass supply that could come from algae, new energy crops (miscanthus, energycane, poplar, eucalyptus), and municipal solid waste. This report also factors in how the cost of transporting biomass to the biorefinery may affect its availability. Volume 2 will be devoted to the environmental, economic, and social sustainability of selected biomass growth scenarios and will be released later this year. READ MORE WATCH VIDEO

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