Ecotech Alliance Explains The Importance Of Biomass

And Bioenergy
While improvements in wind and solar have made recent headlines, modern bioenergy has the
potential to become the most important source of growth in renewable energy use over the
next 30 years according to Ecotech Alliance.
Biomass and Bioenergy is a renewable, low carbon fuel that is already widely available
throughout the world. Properly managed, biomass is a sustainable fuel that can provide a
major reduction in net carbon emissions when compared with fossil fuels. Biomass and
Bioenergy has quickly become an essential role in the global renewable energy mix and today it
accounts for 13% of the worlds total final energy consumption.
Biomass energy resources are readily available in both rural and urban areas and offers
tremendous opportunities for all countries, particularly those countries with significant biomass
resources that may have limited amounts of fossil fuels. Biomass-based industries are providing
diversified employment opportunities and promote biomass re-growth through sustainable
land management practices. Its production and use also brings environmental and social
benefits.
Biomass and Bioenergy can play a key role in reducing the dependence on fossil fuels by
making use of thermo-chemical conversion technologies. With the development of efficient
biomass handling technology, enhancement of agro-forestry systems and establishment of
small and large-scale biomass-based power plants can also play a major role in rural
development. Biomass energy could also aid in modernising of the agricultural economy.
When compared with wind and solar energy, biomass plants are able to provide crucial, reliable
base load generation. As an example Biomass and Bioenergy crops such as Ecotech Alliances
bio feedstock can provide fuel diversity, which in turn can protect communities from the
volatility of fossil fuels prices.
Bioenergy crops can also enhance carbon sequestration asshort-rotation crops established on
abandoned agricultural or marginal land can help accumulate and improve carbon in the soil for
land regeneration.
Since biomass can be grown and harvested as a locally produced energy fuel, biomass power
greatly reduces a countries dependence on foreign energy sources and can add to the security
of its energy requirements.

With robust markets for solid biomass fuels such as pellets or briquettes, which are a bio
product formed from compressed wood or agricultural residue feedstocks that are being used
as fuel for heating and co-firing with coal power plants, can greatly contribute to emission
reduction targets.
In Asia, Ecotech Alliance cultivates short term rotation crops like Napier grass and Kenaf which
can help utilities meet their carbon emission targets for electricity production. The integration
of biomass-fuelled gasifiers in coal-fired power stations could also be advantageous in terms of
improved flexibility in response to fluctuations in biomass availability and lower investment
costs.
The continued growth of the bioenergy industry can be further supported by more companies
and governments acting to promote the advantages and endless possibilities biomass and
bioenergy can bring, through the increase of marketing of Biomass and Bioenergy proven
applications and technologies.
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