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Reference scenarios for evaluating wood pellet production in the Southeastern United States

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  • Esther S. Parish
  • Virginia H. Dale
  • Keith L. Kline
  • Robert C. Abt

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Wood pellet exports from the Southeastern United States (SE US) to Europe have been increasing in response to European Union member state policies to displace coal with renewable biomass for electricity generation. An understanding of the interactions among SE US forest markets, forest management, and forest ecosystem services is required to quantify the effects of pellet production compared to what would be expected under a reference case or ‘counterfactual scenario’ without pellet production. Inconsistent methods to define and justify the counterfactual scenario result in conflicting estimates and large uncertainties about the impacts of pellet production on SE US forests. Guidelines to support more consistent and transparent counterfactual scenarios are proposed. The guidelines include identifying major influences on current SE US forest conditions, developing potential futures that clearly document underlying assumptions and associated uncertainties, identifying the most likely alternative feedstock fates, and estimating the effects of no pellet demand on future forest conditions. The guidelines can help modelers to more accurately reflect the past and current forest dynamics and to consider the implications for SE US forest landscapes of future scenarios with and without pellet production. WIREs Energy Environ 2017, 6:e259. doi: 10.1002/wene.259 This article is categorized under: Bioenergy > Climate and Environment Energy and Climate > Climate and Environment Energy and Development > Climate and Environment

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  • Esther S. Parish & Virginia H. Dale & Keith L. Kline & Robert C. Abt, 2017. "Reference scenarios for evaluating wood pellet production in the Southeastern United States," Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 6(6), November.
  • Handle: RePEc:bla:wireae:v:6:y:2017:i:6:n:e259
    DOI: 10.1002/wene.259
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    1. Keith L. Kline & Virginia H. Dale & Erin Rose & Bruce Tonn, 2021. "Effects of Production of Woody Pellets in the Southeastern United States on the Sustainable Development Goals," Sustainability, MDPI, vol. 13(2), pages 1-19, January.
    2. Esther S. Parish & Latha M. Baskaran & Virginia H. Dale, 2021. "Framework for assessing land‐management effects on at‐risk species: Example of SE USA wood pellet production and gopher tortoise (Gopherus polyphemus)," Wiley Interdisciplinary Reviews: Energy and Environment, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 10(1), January.
    3. Giuntoli, J. & Searle, S. & Jonsson, R. & Agostini, A. & Robert, N. & Amaducci, S. & Marelli, L. & Camia, A., 2020. "Carbon accounting of bioenergy and forest management nexus. A reality-check of modeling assumptions and expectations," Renewable and Sustainable Energy Reviews, Elsevier, vol. 134(C).

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