Multi-Year Analysis Plan Page 5
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80Introduction
The Biomass Program is a comprehensive federally funded research, development, and
deployment effort. It focuses on science and technology that will establish biomass as a
significant source of sustainable fuels, heat, power, chemicals, and materials. Biomass is unique
among all the options for renewable resources because it is the only single resource that by itself
can serve as a sustainable supply of all of: food, fiber, heat, power, and carbon-based fuels and
chemicals.
The Biomass Program is managed by the Office of the Biomass Program (OBP), within the U.S.
Department of Energy’s (DOE’s) Office of Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy (EERE).
OBP is one of eleven offices responsible for developing a portfolio of sustainable energy
technologies. The overarching goals of the Biomass Program are to dramatically reduce or even
end our dependence on foreign oil and to create a bioenergy industry in the United States.
This multi-year analysis plan (MYAP) is a companion to the multi-year technical plan, and
documents the Biomass Program’s planned engineering and analysis activities for the next 5
years to achieve the OBP’s goals. This plan is the first analysis plan written for an EERE office. It
defines analysis performed not only in the OBP, but also in EERE, it lays out the multi-year
analysis effort needed in each of the program areas to achieve DOE’s goals, and discusses the
integration necessary to ensure a complete biomass utilization analysis.
Analysis plays three main roles in the program:
1. It shows progress toward the goals of DOE/EERE/OBP via benefits analysis.
2. It provides direction and guidance for program planning functions.
3. It provides engineering knowledge for biorefinery development.
Analysis that demonstrates progress toward goals is the first priority. It provides information for
benefits analysis and budget formulation. Analysis that provides information for program
planning and research and development (R&D) management is the second priority.
There are different types and levels of analysis. The Stage Gate methodology used by the
program should determine both the type and rigor of analysis efforts. The types of analysis
needed are:
Resource evaluation tools to develop supply curves
Mass/energy balance and costing tools to ensure feasible process designs for
harvesting and processing
Life cycle assessment tools to ensure sustainability of the entire cycle
Market evaluation tools to assess biomass impact via products
The purpose of the MYAP is to provide an integrated picture of analysis in and for the Biomass
Program. While the mulit-year technical plan (MYTP) contains analysis components, they are
split among the R&D areas. Plans for the analysis work in each program area were taken from the
MYTP and detail was added as needed by the key personnel doing the analysis. A benefit to
creating a companion MYAP is that it begins to show where the plan is integrated across program
areas and where gaps exist. This is valuable as the National Bioenergy Center begins to work for
the biomass program in a much more integrated fashion. Another benefit is that a MYAP allows
us to match analysis projects to specific goals, targets and roles. This provides program
management with the opportunity to tune the analysis, reduce redundancy and ensure that all the
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