Why do we need biomass gasification for renewable energy, isnt wind, solar or other forms of renewable energy enough?
Wind and solar power are key components to the future electricity generation mix because they are low maintenance and greenhouse neutral. Solar generation has the advantage of peaking at the same time as peak air-conditioning loads, and wind energy when networked sufficiently widely with appropriate interconnection can provide base-load generation. However, neither can provide on-demand generation for load-matching – a problem that exists in Hawaii, due to our remote location and “islanded” utility generation. Biomass gasification can provide this 24 hours a day, seven days a week, and, if supplied from sustainably-harvested fuel, it can be a truly greenhouse-neutral on-demand generation system to complement wind and solar in a carbon-neutral way.
