If we produced more energy from bio-mass we could reduce greenhouse gas emissions, provide a secure native fuel source and divert some land out of traditional farm enterprises. If liquid biofuel crops were grown on the present Arable Set-aside area (30 kha), they could supply about 10 per cent of agricultural fuel demand. Where the whole of an energy crop could be utilised in a heating or CHP plant, 10 per cent of total national energy demand could be met by the use of about 10 per cent of the farmed area. To allow a beginning to be made to the development of biofuel industries, two changes are needed immediately: a reduction of road excise on biofuels and an increased price for electricity from biomass.
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