DOI: 10.16904/envidat.370
title: Linking solar and biomass resources to generate renewable energy: can we find local complementarities in the agricultural setting?

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Linking solar and biomass resources to generate renewable en-ergy: can we find local complementarities in the agricultural setting?
Gillianne Bowman, Thierry Huber, Vanessa Burg
Energies, https://www.mdpi.com/1996-1073/16/3/1486
Today, the energy transition is underway to tackle the problems of climate change and energy sufficiency. For this transition to succeed, it is essential to use all available re-newable energy resources most efficiently. However, renewable energies often bring high volatility that needs to be balanced. One solution is to combine the use of different renewable sources to increase the overall energy output or reduce its environmental impact. Here, we estimate the agricultural solar and biomass resources at the local level in Switzerland, considering their spatial and temporal variability using Geographic In-formation Systems. We then identify the technologies that could allow synergies or complementarities. Overall, the technical agricultural resources potential is ~15 PJ/annus biogas yield from residual biomass and ~10 TWh/a electricity from solar installed on roofs (equivalent to ~36 PJ/a). Anaerobic digestion, combined heat & power plant, Raw manure separation, Biomethane upgrading, Power to X, Electrolysis, Chill generation and Pho-tovoltaic on biogas facilities could foster complementarity in the system if resources are pooled within the agricultural setting. Temporal complementarity at the farm scale can only lead to partial autarchy. The possible benefits from these complementarities should be better identified, particulary in looking looking at the economic viability of such systems.
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 Description: Base data for quantitites of manure and agricultural residues available in Switzerland aggregated per municipalities and provided yearly and monthly.

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The biomass considered in this study consists of agricultural residues arising according to current practice, i.e. mainly manure and some crop by-products. Availability was calculated following the method of (Burg et al., 2018)   based on the updated national agricultural inventory (FSO, 2018). The animal manure potential considered here represents the total annually collected amount, i.e. generated amount after subtracting losses from grazing. With regard to crop by-products, only a small percentage of the theoretical potential was considered to be available since most crop by-products cannot be readily collected today (Burg et al., 2018). The potential biogas production used in the present study was calculated analogously as in Burg et al. (2018) based on a specific biogas yield from fresh biomass. The additional potential of co-substrates from industrial or municipal organic wastes was not considered here.
Bsed on G1G22 (Municipalities in 2022) according to BFS

References:
Burg, V., Bowman, G., Erni, M., Lemm, R., Thees, O., 2018a. Analyzing the potential of domestic biomass resources for the energy transition in Switzerland. Biomass and Bioenergy 111, 60-69. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2018.02.007
FSO, 2018. Individual data from the agricultural structure survey STRU. Federal statistical office FSO, Bern.
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