What are the climate changes benefits of biomass power generation?
As opposed to energy derived from fossil fuels such as coal, oil and natural gas, biomass energy does not contribute to climate change. The carbon which is stored in biomass material as it grows is already part of the atmosphere. Biomass energy does not add new carbon to the active carbon cycle, unlike fossil fuels which remove carbon from geologic storage. The carbon emissions emitted from biomass facilities would have been released back into the atmosphere through some other fate or mechanism such as natural decay or an alternative disposal method such as open-burning. The advanced emissions controls on a biomass energy facility significantly reduce the amount of CO2 emitted into the atmosphere along with other emissions such as particulate matter. Learn more about the climate change benefits of biomass power.
