Ankush Halba on When Bioenergy Makes Sense and When It Does Not

Описание: 🎯 In this video: Ankush Halba, Doctoral Fellow at IIT Roorkee, explains why bioenergy and waste-to-energy projects succeed or fail depending on supply chain design, system boundaries, and financial realism.
The conversation explores the critical distinction between biomass-to-energy and waste-to-energy, highlighting how feedstock variability, preprocessing requirements, and emissions accounting fundamentally change project outcomes. Halba emphasizes that life cycle assessment and clearly defined system boundaries are essential, particularly as Scope 3 emissions from feedstock transport and logistics can account for 70 to 90 percent of total project emissions. He discusses why many bioenergy projects appear viable in theoretical models but collapse under real-world conditions due to unreliable feedstock supply, storage losses, long transport distances, and overestimated plant utilization rates. The episode also examines how GIS-based supply chain optimization directly influences plant siting, emissions performance, and financial returns. Beyond technical modeling, the discussion covers techno-economic assessment, the role of carbon credits and green financing, and the importance of conservative assumptions when evaluating Net Present Value, Internal Rate of Return, and Levelized Cost of Electricity. Halba also addresses transitional energy realities in emerging economies, including the continued role of internal combustion engines, where grid decarbonization remains incomplete. Ultimately, the episode underscores that bioenergy is neither inherently green nor inherently flawed. Its sustainability depends on rigorous life cycle thinking, realistic financial modeling, stakeholder engagement, and disciplined execution grounded in regional realities.

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📍 Guest: Ankush Halba, Doctoral Fellow at IIT Roorkee
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🎙 Interview by: Karol Kaczmarek, Co-Founder of Net Zero Compare
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🏛 Indian Institute of Technology Roorkee (IIT Roorkee):
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