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Dr. Shabani studied ways to reduce the cost of generating electricity from wood. She developed models to optimize output from wood-fuelled power plants, taking into account uncertainty in wood quality, quantity and price. The models help make forest bioenergy more economically viable and increase the possibility of replacing fossil fuel with bioenergy.

A randomly-selected Doctoral citation each day: today from the Doctor of Philosophy in Forestry (PhD) - graduated in 2014