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This study estimated the availability of unused materials for woody biomass power generation plants registered in FIT (Feed-in Tariff) as the supply potential through the introduction of trailers with 20-t payload instead of trucks with 10-t payload which were widely used on winding road networks in mountainous areas of Japan. As a result, supply potentials of used and unused materials were estimated at 65,413,601 m3/year and 13,082,720 m3/year, whereas those availabilities were estimated at 64,322,304 m3/year and 12,864,461 m3/year, respectively. Therefore, the rate of the availabilities to the supply potentials was 98.3%. The availabilities of used and unused materials without the introduction were 54,268,941 m3/year and 10,853,788 m3/year. Thus, its introduction contributed to increase the availability. Since the demand of woody biomass power generation plants registered in FIT was estimated at 11,018,104 m3/year, the availability through the introduction met the future demands in Japan as a whole.
| Keywords | FIT; Payload; Supply potentials |
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