BioEnergy Systems LLC

Feedstock Supply Analyses

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BioEnergy Systems LLC (BES) is a consulting firm and project development company based in Fayetteville, Arkansas.

BES was established in 2005 by Jim Wimberly.

click here to learn more about BES and it's founder, Jim Wimberly.

BES works closely with Winrock on a variety of projects and activities related to clean energy, agricultural and rural economic development, and ecosystems management. Winrock International is a nonprofit organization that works with people in the United States and around the world to empower the disadvantaged, increase economic opportunity, and sustain natural resources.

BES is a supporter of Environmental and Energy Study Institute (EESI), a nonprofit organization established in 1984 by a bipartisan, bicameral group of members of Congress to provide timely information and develop innovative policy solutions that set us on a cleaner, more secure and sustainable energy path. EESI accomplishes these objectives in three ways:

Policymaker Education
Networking & Coalition Building
Policy Development

BES is a supporter of 25x’25, which is a rallying cry for renewable energy and a goal for America – to get 25 percent of our energy from renewable resources like wind, solar, and biofuels by the year 2025. 25x'25 is supported financially by the Energy Future Coalition, a non-partisan public policy initiative funded by foundations.

BES’ President, Jim Wimberly, is a 35-year member of American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers (ASABE), an educational and scientific organization dedicated to the advancement of engineering applicable to agricultural, food, and biological systems. Founded in 1907 and headquartered in St Joseph, Michigan, ASABE comprises 9,000 members in more than 100 countries.

BioEnergy Systems LLC

1726 N Charlee Ave

Fayetteville, AR 72703

tel: 479-527-0478

fax: 612-605-5749

email: info@biomass2.com

website: www.biomass2.com

BioEnergy Systems LLC (BES) has developed BioFeedStAT®... a Biomass Feedstock Supply Assessment Tool.

BioFeedStAT® is a high-resolution user-interactive tool for analyzing biomass feedstock supplies utilizing numerous data sets and GIS-based spatial analyses.

For a specific location, BioFeedStAT® is used to determine quantities vs. distances (in 0.5-mile increments -- actual road miles, not air miles) and transport costs of any combination of target feedstocks:

first-generation biofuels feedstocks (e.g., corn, soybeans)

agricultural field residues… e.g., rice straw, corn stover

woody biomass… e.g., chips or stem wood

forest-based woody residues… e.g., harvest slash

dedicated energy crops… woody / herbaceous

Why are such analyses needed for bioenergy projects?

Understanding feedstock supplies is critical to successful project planning, financing, and implementation.

Why BioFeedStAT®?

Accuracy -- BioFeedStAT® provides the highest resolution feedstock analysis available anywhere
- e.g., BioFeedStAT® evaluates over 13,000,000 data points within a 70-mile distance from the target site

Timely -- BioFeedStAT® analyses and results can be provided in much less time than traditional assessments
- typically in less than 1 week!

Cost Effective -- BioFeedStAT® is only a fraction of the cost of traditional labor-intensive approaches
- yet is much more accurate and requires much less time!

BioFeedStAT® outputs include:

feedstock quantities vs. distance… based on user-selected feedstocks and target average haul distance
- in both tabular & graphical formats

economic analyses... feedstock transport costs
- in both tabular & graphical formats

high-resolution images of target supply area
- including delineations of various distance bands

data tables
- detailed spreadsheets of feedstock types and sub-types in 0.5-mile increments from the selected location

Contact BioEnergy Systems LLC for additional information regarding BioFeedStAT®...

the high-resolution Biomass Feedstock Supply Assessment Tool needed for every bioenergy project.