Costs Associated with the Delivery of Woody Biomass to Power Plants

For the energy production, the amount of biomass used by a specific power plant is limited by the quantity at which the high grade biomass can be delivered at a feasi­ble cost. The charges associated with the given amount of woody biomass were determined by the costs of stumpage, regression, harvesting, chipping and transpor­tation. For any organization, the quantity of biomass available at a given cost is also influenced by the transportation distance to some extent (Goerndt et al. 2013). The following subsections describe the ways and conventions used for the estima­tion of the woody biomass available for the power plants during energy production process. It also mean to provide the cumulative information regarding the costs associated with the purchase of woody biomass and other associated charges including delivery in the successive larger procurement and consumption areas.