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2023 Billion-Ton Report: An Assessment of U.S. Renewable Carbon Resources

Abstract

This chapter reviews primary domestic energy production and consumption; quantifies biomass as a feedstock for energy uses in all 50 US states; provides details on biomass currently used to produce biomass-based transportation fuels, fuels for heat and power generation, and bio-based coproducts; and discusses emerging sources of bioenergy. It compares current consumption to the historical rates included in BTS, BT2, and BT16 Volume 1 (DOE 2005, 2011, 2016). The following chapters in this report discuss primary