Bioenergy-Technology-Database (BET.db)

Bioenergy is a crucial element of the future energy system with range of applications in the electricity, heat and transport sectors. One major challenge for the analysis and optimisation of the bioenergy system is the degree of diversity and complexity compared to wind or solar energy. A coherent data base needs to encompass the different entities such as bioresources, conversation process and process chains. Thus Bio-Energy Technology database (BET.db) was developed by merging various existing datasets into a SQLite database. The resulting BET.db provides consistent sets for 141 biogenic raw materials as well as energy carriers, 259 conversation technologies and 134 supply concepts for energy provision . BET.db was developed as part of a non-public research project for system optimal biomass allocation (SoBio). We have valiate the usability of BET.db by connecting the Bioenergy Optimisation Model (BENOPT). For this use case we can ensure a transparent and reproducible data source for such modeling tasks.