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HŘEBÍČEK, J. FALDÍK, O. CHVÁTALOVÁ, Z. KASEM, E. TRENZ, O.
Original Title
Sustainability Assessment of Biogas Plants
Type
conference paper
Language
English
Original Abstract
A methodology for the sustainability assessment of agricultural anaerobic digestion (AD) plants (biogas plants) is discussed. It consists of many different models like for instance eco-efficiency models with using the Economic Value Added (EVA) model and Data Envelopment Analysis (DEA) models to evaluate Sustainable Value Added (SVA) of the agricultural AD plant. One of the most used and most common methods for measuring corporate sustainability which incorporates the three dimensions (economic, environmental and social) is called “the triple bottom line approach”. It calculates the value by using not only financial but also non-financial resources. This value is called SVA. This approach simplifies the measurements and allows the sustainable performance of agricultural AD plants to be measured in monetary terms depending on the data availability on the farm level as well as on the benchmark. It shows how much value of biomass energy recovery is created as a result of using economic, environmental and social resources, compared to a benchmark. In order to use this method, the benchmark company should be chosen. In our research, DEA is used for this purpose. It is a very powerful mathematical model of decision-making in farms with AD plants. The main purpose of applying this analysis is to evaluate the level of efficiency of biomass energy recovery of farms in Moravia region. The efficiency in our case is represented as a share of output in a weighted sum of inputs. In other words, it depicts a certain degree to which desirable outputs can offset keym performance economic, environmental, social and corporate governance indicators. The case study of aggregated SVA of biogas plants of Moravia region is presented.
Keywords
sustainability; biogas plant; agriculture; renewable energy; EVA; DEA; SVA; KPIs
Authors
HŘEBÍČEK, J.; FALDÍK, O.; CHVÁTALOVÁ, Z.; KASEM, E.; TRENZ, O.
Released
14. 11. 2016
Publisher
CISA Publisher
Location
Padova, Italy
ISBN
978-88-6265-007-6
Book
Proceedings Venice2016, Sixth International Symposium on Energy from Biomass and Waste
Pages from
1
Pages to
19
Pages count
BibTex
@inproceedings{BUT132531, author="Jiří {Hřebíček} and Oldřich {Faldík} and Zuzana {Chvátalová} and Edward {Kasem} and Oldřich {Trenz}", title="Sustainability Assessment of Biogas Plants", booktitle="Proceedings Venice2016, Sixth International Symposium on Energy from Biomass and Waste", year="2016", pages="1--19", publisher="CISA Publisher", address="Padova, Italy", isbn="978-88-6265-007-6" }