The six-month Biomass Logistics project is intended to model the logistics requirements of different future bioenergy scenarios.
Alongside Ecofys and LLamasoft, Baringa Partners will also identify commonalities and differences across the different scenarios and will determine potential key decision and actions required to support the sector out to 2050.
The project, which will leverage LLamasoft’s supply chain design software, Supply Chain Guru, will also identify and draw on lessons learned from the development of other relevant sectors such as oil, coal and other commodities.
ETI bioenergy project manager Andrew Thomas said: “ETI’s whole energy system analysis shows that bioenergy can play a significant and valuable role in helping the UK meet its 2050 greenhouse gas emission reduction targets cost-effectively, especially when combined with Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS).
“To ensure that the UK can develop a bioenergy sector that delivers genuine carbon savings, greater understanding is needed of the logistics requirements for both domestic and imported feedstocks, across different future bioenergy scenarios.”
ETI is a joint venture between BP, Caterpillar, EDF, Rolls-Royce, Shell and the UK government. It aims to accelerate the development of low-carbon technologies.
Baringa Partners supply chain partner John Calder from said: “Logistics is a growing areas of focus across our Energy Practice as the industry seeks to ensure the supply chain is setup to minimize cost, greenhouse gas emissions and HSE risk and ensure continuity of supply.”
Image: The new UK project aims to model the logistics requirements of different future bioenergy scenarios. Photo: courtesy of adamr/FreeDigitalPhotos.net.
