Proposal Papers for Policy Making and Governmental Action toward Low Carbon Society

LCS-FY2018-PP-11

Regional Distribution of Energy Potential of Wood Biomass (Vol. 2):
Cost of Cutting in Artificial Forests Distributed Heterogeneously

  • SDGs7
  • SDGs9
  • SDGs13
  • SDGs15
  • SDGs8
  • SDGs11
  • SDGs12
  • SDGs14

Summary

 In order to improve reduction of the cost of wood biomass production, it is essential to introduce highperformance forestry machinery into large-area artificial forests to achieve high productivity. The LCS has already calculated the reduced cost of wood biomass production in artificial forests with uniform distribution of trees.

 The distribution pattern of actual artificial forests are heterogeneous, and it is necessary to consider the cost of moving of machines between forest stands. We calculated the moving cost across regions for cutting operations using the GIS data of artificial forests in this paper.
 In the Tenryu Forest Planning Zone in Shizuoka Prefecture, the moving costs were within 1% of the total production cost of wood biomass in areas where the distribution of artificial forests are concentrated, and 4% in the areas where artificial forests are dispersed. The effect of moving cost to total production cost is small and there was a possibility of wood biomass production at low cost.

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