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Bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) has the potential to remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and ultimately play an important role in climate change mitigation. The aim of this research is to compare the techno-economic performance of different types of biomass in different CO₂ abatement technologies via simulations. This is information that is currently not available in the BECCS literature and the present study constitutes the first attempt to bridge this knowledge gap.

Simulations revealed that potentially annual CO₂ negative emissions of 1.0 Mt up to 1.52 Mt can be achieved for a 250 MW power plant when biomass is coupled with the appropriate CCS technology. Economic analysis estimated that CO₂ avoidance costs in the range of £46- £88 per tonne of CO₂ are required to match the cost of bioenergy generation without CCS. A sensitivity analysis to investigate the effect of carbon …