In order to solve environmental pollution problems and achieve the goal of “carbon-neutral society” by fully using organic wastes, the Environmental Protection Administration (EPA) supported this project to compile white paper on bio-energy policy, assess and set up bio-waste information platform, and research into the improving of the implementation and effectiveness of bio-energy policies. First of all, this project collected promotional policies of bio-waste to bio-energy, promotional plans and cases from Germany, Denmark and Japan. Furthermore, this project has studied available domestic bio-energy conversion technologies, promotional policies, cases, as well as previous projects, regulations and current situations. This project also conducted 15 interviews with central and local governments to promote the work and finalized the “White Paper on Regional Waste-to-Energy System (Draft).” In addition to previous efforts, this project further resolved current problems and provided advices on promotional plans and strategies. The framework of the strategies is the assignment of responsibilities to central and local governmental authorities, and to allocate sources, technologies and applications regionally. Advices on strategies and measures are provided by categories (sources, technologies, applications and supporting measures), which include mode of operation, economic incentives, regulations and educations. Regarding bio-energy sources, this project estimated the potentiality of bio-waste in order to understand the overall bio-waste categories, amounts and distributions, and then to establish the information platform for user inquiry and data analysis, as well as for expanding relative analytic functions in the future. Based on previous work of 2014 and without considering cost of constructions, logistic system and operation, this project estimates that the existing waste-to-energy capacity could generate 2.8 billion kWh electricity by assuming 30% potential bio-energy resources being used to generate power, and therefore could reduce 4.78 million CO2e emissions. In addition, referring to EPA’s policy, ongoing plans and current situation, this project sets up short-term (5 years) and long-term (10 years) scenarios to analyze the promotional benefits of bio-energy policies, and 8 districts were selected for case study to review and propose the combination technology of bio-energy for different phases. Besides, this project also analyzed the feed-in tariff system to provide suggestions on feed-in tariff rates adjustment, which incorporates the logistic cost into account as well as mitigating eligibility criteria for co-firing application.

Biomass, Bioenergy, Bioenergy policy