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Author Nicholls, David L., author.

Title Oregon's biomass producer tax credit : impacts of land ownership on woody bioenergy use / David L. Nicholls, Robert L. Deal, and Andrew Warren.

Publication Info. Portland, OR : United States Department of Agriculture, Forest Service, Pacific Northwest Research Station, 2020.

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Description 1 online resource (28 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series Research paper PNW ; RP-615
Research paper PNW ; RP-615.
Note "March 2020."
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 22-27).
Summary From 2007 through 2017, Oregon implemented an incentive program for biomass collection and production. This research evaluates renewable biomass production and deliveries during a 3-year period (2012 to 2014) in which this tax credit was in place. We evaluated total delivered tons, average payments per load, delivered location, and average transportation distance of woody biomass. We found that total delivered tons of biomass decreased each year between 2012 and 2014, as did the number of users participating in the tax credit program. The average delivered tons, by participant, was more than double in 2014 its level in earlier years, suggesting that fewer, larger entities were participating. We also evaluated differences in biomass delivery, based on receipts, transportation distances, and tons delivered, for each land ownership class. There were statistically significant differences between private and public land ownership for 2012 and 2013 but not for 2014, which included fewer applicants. Our study showed that effective biomass utilization policies need to provide sufficient economic incentives to encourage adoption by both participants and biomass energy producers, and, to be effective, to consider the complete supply chain and type of energy produced. Future economic conditions in Oregon will most likely include rapid changes in renewable energy technologies and fluctuations in fossil fuel prices, and any truly effective renewable energy policies must be sufficiently nimble to account for these and other uncertainties.
Note Online resource, PDF version; title from cover (USFS, viewed June 30, 2020).
Subject Tax credits -- Oregon.
Forest biomass -- Economic aspects -- Oregon.
Fuelwood industry -- Oregon.
Biomass energy -- Oregon.
Biomass conversion.
Renewable energy sources -- Government policy -- Oregon.
Crédit d'impôt -- Oregon.
Biomasse forestière -- Aspect économique -- Oregon.
Bois de chauffage -- Industrie -- Oregon.
Bioénergie -- Oregon.
Biomasse -- Conversion.
Énergies renouvelables -- Politique gouvernementale -- Oregon.
Biomass conversion
Biomass energy
Forest biomass -- Economic aspects
Fuelwood industry
Renewable energy sources -- Government policy
Tax credits
Oregon https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39QbtfRDY9Q8vrYX74W7HTxKM
Added Author Deal, Robert L. (Robert Leslie), author.
Warren, Andrew, author.
Pacific Northwest Research Station (Portland, Or.), issuing body.
Added Title Impacts of land ownership on woody bioenergy use
Gpo Item No. 0083-B (online)
Sudoc No. A 13.78:PNW-RP-615

 
    
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