Carbon & Energy

Recovered Energy and Avoided Energy Are Not the Same Thing

A process may generate electricity, heat or fuel without avoiding an equivalent amount of energy production elsewhere. Environmental credit depends on whether the recovered energy is actually useful and what energy source it genuinely displaces.

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When Does Waste-Derived Energy Displace Fossil Energy?

Waste-derived electricity, heat, gas or fuel creates a fossil-energy benefit only when it replaces energy that would otherwise have been generated from fossil sources. That displacement depends on location, timing, energy quality and the wider energy system.

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