Supply of by-products and agricultural residues
Woods and Hall (1994) show that the potential for production
of energy from agricultural residues is quite large. They
estimate that about 25% of the actual residues could be
employed. That represents an energy potential of about 1.6 EJ
for the industrialized countries, which is about 1% of total
energy consumption. Their estimation of today's use is about
1% of the potential. Today only straw is used on a large scale
in Europe, and Denmark is Europe's leader in straw utilization.