The SYNENERGY study makes a reasonably conservative assumption that 10% of land currently used for grazing/pasture and 5% of the fallow land (low scenario) is used to grow perennial grasses. The Technical Potential, if perennial crops are used is estimated to be 15,33 PJ resource. It is assumed that half of this resource would be available for bio-energy industry, or medium-scale CHP installations (individual capacity 5 MWe plus) delivering power to grid and heat to residential / commercial / industrial users. This would support 106 MWe installed capacity that would generate 745 GWh electricity and 1.065 GWh heat annually [5].

6.1.6. Small scale heat with energy crops

In the study it is estimated that the other 50% of the 15,33 PJ for energy crops would support local small scale energy crop fired baled fired boilers or energy crop pellet boilers supplying residential properties with heat. This would equate to 1.703 GWh of useful heat production per year. [5])