Evidence Review: Perennial Energy Crops and their Potential in Scotland
2020
Martin, Gareth | Ingvorsen, Leo | Willcocks, Jessie | Wiltshire, Jeremy | Bates, Judith | Jenkins, Becky | Priestley, Tom | McKay, Helen | Croxten, Steve | Scottish Government
The Committee on Climate Change (CCC) have identified that under net zero emissions scenarios, bioenergy supplied in the UK could reach 200TWh (with 170TWh of this sourced from the UK) by 2050. The CCC considered that UK-produced energy crops could be an important source of bioenergy and assumed that around 700,000 ha could be planted in the UK to help achieve this target, although it did not consider where. If it were evenly spread across the arable area of the UK, Scotland’s ‘share’ would be about 70,000 ha. This report examines the potential for a sustainable expansion of perennial bioenergy crop production on low grade agricultural land or underutilised land, focusing on short rotation coppice (SRC), miscanthus and short rotation forestry (SRF).
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