“America must develop new forms of energy
and new ways of using it.”

US-President Barack Obama

Biomass power projects could see a ten-fold increase from the current installed base of 10 GW. This increase would result in 100 GW of new biomass capacity by 2025, according to the U.S. Combined Heat and Power Association (USCHPA).

Growth is expected to take place in wholesale power generation as well as distributed production in pulp and paper mills, commercial and industrial facilities, and solid waste conversion to energy. Continued growth in farm, landfill, and wastewater treatment power projects will supplement this growth. A substantial portion of this new capacity would come from combined heat and power applications, where thermal energy that would otherwise be wasted is applied for productive uses, resulting in very high efficiencies.

Due to the localized nature of fuel availability and thermal loads, the majority of new biomass power projects will be at distributed facilities near demand centers. In these applications, local energy resources will be used to fuel local development.

Like other load-sited, distributed renewable projects, these biomass applications benefit the grid by alleviating congestion, freeing up capacity, and deferring expensive system upgrades. Just over one-third of new capacity will require access to the transmission system.

Source: www.acore.org