Electricity and Hydrogen Production Potential from of Biomass in the Argentine Republic and its Use Thermal in the Calamuchita Valley, Córdoba Province

Abstract

The provision of modern energy services to the sustainable use of biomass involves not only a positive impact on mitigation of the climatic change, but also many local environmental and socioeconomic benefits.
The biomassic resource is heterogeneously distributed in the country, which is why in this paper, it is grouped by geographic regions: Northwest Argentina Northeast Argentina, Cuyo, Pampas and Patagonia. From this quantification, electricity generation potential and its cost according to different technologies used, and the annual amount of fossil fuel that could be replaced by biomassic hydrogen, with the consequent reduction of CO_2 emissions, are estimated.
Finally we also estimate the thermal utilization of residual forest biomass from Calamuchita Valley, province of Córdoba, with the potential to generate approximately 400,000 [MWh/year].