Analysis of Diffusion of Biomass Energy Utilization

Utilization of renewable energy resources is one of the important policies for governments in order to decrease dependency on fossil fuels and to achieve their sustainable targets. Among all kinds of renewables, biofuel has a significant share in providing clean energy. Despite the importance of renewables, successful diffusion and commercialization of renewables have faced with barriers and challenges. This work reviews the diffusion of biomass energy as one of the new source of energy in Iran. The work shows that three factors of marketing and customer trust, competitive price, and technology indigenous affect the diffusion of this technology in Iran. Due to the complexity of diffusion of biomass technology in Iran, the system dynamic approach has been used to show the effects of important adoption variables on the system

کلیدواژه ها:

Biomass energy ، Biofuel ، Renewable energy ، System dynamics