Review Article

Coordinating the Deployment of Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage

¹ CentraleSupélec, Université Paris-Saclay, Laboratoire Genie Industriel, 3 rue Joliot-Curie, 91192 Gif-sur-Yvette, France
² Center for Energy Economics and Management, IFP School, 228-232 av. Napoléon Bonaparte, 92852 Rueil-Malmaison, France
³ IFP Energies nouvelles, 1 et 4 av. de Bois-Préau, 92852 Rueil-Malmaison, France
⁴ Department of Economics, City, University of London, Northampton Square, London EC1V 0HB, UK
⁵ Climate Economics Chair, Palais Brongniart, 28 place de la Bourse, 75002 Paris, France

^* Corresponding author: emma.jagu@centralesupelec.fr

Received: 21 March 2022
Accepted: 9 September 2022

Abstract

Bioenergy with Carbon Capture and Storage (BECCS) is a negative emissions technology that allows the removal of CO₂ from the atmosphere while producing energy or goods. This technology has been increasingly pictured as key to reaching the Paris Agreement targets. But with only a few demonstration projects currently in operation, its deployment is far from projected. The large-scale deployment of BECCS is hindered by economic, social, and environmental barriers that have been subject to an increasing number of studies. As most research on BECCS tends to adopt a central planning perspective, the barriers related to strategic interactions and coordination issues within the BECCS value chain are often overlooked. Based on a systematic literature review, we identify coordination-related challenges for BECCS deployment. We describe three challenges to BECCS deployment that should be further examined through the lens of coordination: (i) trading biomass and ensuring its sustainability; (ii) reducing costs through synergies with other industries and shared CO₂ infrastructures; and (iii) coordinating policies internationally to provide revenues for BECCS.