INVESTIGADORES
CASTELAO CARUANA Maria Eugenia
congresos y reuniones científicas
Título:
NonTechnical Barriers for the Development of a Bioenergy Industry in Argentina
Autor/es:
MARÍA EUGENIA CASTELAO CARUANA
Reunión:
Conferencia; 2nd RCN Conference on Pan American Biofuels & Bioenergy Sustainability; 2016
Institución organizadora:
AIChe; Asociación Argentina de Ingenieros Químicos; Pan-American Biofuels & Bioenergy Sustainability
Resumen:
The bioenergy industry in Argentina is a developing sector that, following many years of unfavorable public policies and economic conditions, it finds nowadays numerous opportunities for domestic growth (new energy prices, the opening of public tenders for renewable energy projects, access to international funding, etc.). However, the sector still faces significant economic, political and social challenges associated with the development of productive factor markets, economic uncertainty, limited awareness of bioenergy throughout society, and project implementation issues.The barriers that hinder the industry´s development need to be identified and addressed in order to design innovative policy approaches and private strategies that help realize its potential. For this, involvement of various stakeholders in the identification of barriers is extremely important, as their perceptions on barriers and barrier removal measures differ. The harmonization of the policies and strategies of public and private stakeholders is critical to ensure their effectiveness.Barrier is a metaphor to refer to those constraints that influence to a certain extent the implementation and development of a bioenergy system (McCormick & Kåberger, 2007). Most of the available research on barriers has been developed regarding countries of the European Union and the USA, reflecting theperspective of one or a few stakeholders and focusing specially on technical and economic issues.The proposed poster will present the results of a research on the barriers that hinder the development of a bioenergy industry in Argentina. This research contributes to the identification, analysis, and discussion of barriers and barrier removal strategies behind bioenergy development from both a production structure and a market structure perspective, focusing on the dynamic forces on the bioenergy market rather than on isolated, individual bioenergy projects.The research builds on past international studies and personal in depth interviews with various stakeholders such as wholesale consumers, equipment manufacturers, bioenergy project developers, technology agencies and policy makers to find out their perspective on the barriers to the development ofthis sector. The survey first gauged the respondents? perceptions as to the most significant barriers to expanding bioenergy from a list of major factors previously identified in the literature (e.g., transaction costs, policy regulations, market prices, know how, etc.). The survey then delves into each of these factors to determine what aspects posed the greatest obstacle to its developments, and how strongly each particular barrier would hinder the penetration of bioenergy. The barriers identified are analyzed considering their influence on productivity, production costs and transaction costs within the business, and their importance to stakeholders. This analysis contemplates the different roles stakeholders have in the value chain of bioenergy, their levels of influence and their relations in the market structure.