Scenario | Current | Future | ||||||
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Grid scale (km2) | Grid scale (km2) | |||||||
Metric | Unit | 25 | 50 | 100 | 25 | 50 | 100 | |
Centralised | Ethanol cost | $2007.lEtOH-1 | 0.714 | 0.605 | 0.579 | 0.350 | 0.328 | 0.328 |
| km | 53 | 70 | 114 | 53 | 107 | 97 | |
L:C ratio** | - | 0.17 | 0.29 | 0.45 | 0.45 | 0.86 | 0.79 | |
No. plants | - | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 1 | 5 | |
Max. plant*** | 106 l year-1 | 109 | 297 | 546 | 742 | 2970 | 2620 | |
Corner-Point | Ethanol cost | $2007 lEtOH-1 | 0.712 | 0.601 | 0.578 | 0.355 | 0.337 | 0.346 |
| km | 48 | 71 | 102 | 48 | 66 | 82 | |
L:C ratio | - | 0.17 | 0.28 | 0.46 | 0.33 | 0.49 | 0.75 | |
No. plants | - | 1 | 2 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 8 | |
Max. plant | 106 l year-1 | 109 | 297 | 533 | 742 | 1230 | 2380 |