Setting priorities for land management to mitigate climate change

Table 4 Substitution effectiveness by fuel and conversion process combination, weighting factors reflecting the current substitutable fossil fuel mix of Thuringia and regional substitution effectiveness for Thuringia (t fossil fuel-C substituted per t of biofuel-C harvested)

Fuel	Heat plant; natural gas	Combined heat and power plant; natural gas	Combined heat and power plant; light heating oil	Heat plant. light heating oil	Power plant; hard coal	Power plant; lignite	Regional substitution effectiveness in Thuringia
Triticum, whole crop	0.36	0.38	0.53	0.54	0.70	0.75	0.49
Populus, short- rotation coppice	0.42	0.44	0.62	0.63	0.80	0.86	0.57
Picea , wood for energy	0.42	0.44	0.62	0.63	0.81	0.87	0.57
Picea, slash	0.44	0.45	0.64	0.65	0.83	0.89	0.59
Triticum, straw	0.45	0.47	0.66	0.67	0.86	0.92	0.61
Weighting factors	0.27	0.27	0.11	0.11	0.07	0.17	-

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