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Table 3 Exemplary production costs for annual reference crops and poplar SRC in the 5-year rotation (7000 cuttings). Costs refer to average yield levels of the case study region (see Table 1)

From: A spatial explicit scenario method to support participative regional land-use decisions regarding economic and ecological options of short rotation coppice (SRC) for renewable energy production on arable land: case study application for the Göttingen district, Germany

Item

Description

Reference costs

Sources

Crop production costs (€)

Yield-specific (avg. yield level) production costs

1118 (W)

979 (B)

1128 (OR)

1177 (M)

Own calculations based on [26, 59]

SRC production costs (€)

Preparation and planting

2107

Own calculations based on [26, 28, 43, 6567, 7299]

Harvesting and chipping

880

Transportation (20 km)

825

Transportation variable distances (here 5 km)

356

Storage and drying with waste energy from biogas plants

385

Re-conversion (incl. fertilizer application)

1900 (1600 + 300)