What is meant by bioenergy?
Biomass energy or “bioenergy” includes any solid, liquid or gaseous fuel, or any electric power or useful chemical product derived from organic matter, whether directly from plants or indirectly from plant-derived industrial, commercial, or urban wastes, or agricultural and forestry residues. Thus bioenergy can be derived from a wide range of raw materials and produced in a variety of ways. Because of the wide range of potential feedstocks and the variety of technologies to produce them and process them, bioenergy is usually considered as a series of many different feedstock / technology combinations. In practice, we tend to use different terms for different end uses – e.g. electric power or transportation. The term “biopower” describes biomass power systems that use biomass feedstocks instead of the usual fossil fuels (natural gas or coal) to produce electricity, and the term “biofuel” is used mostly for liquid transportation fuels which substitute for petroleum products such as gasol
Biomass energy or bioenergy includes any solid, liquid or gaseous fuel, electric power and heat derived from organic matter. Because of the wide range of potential feed stocks and the variety of technologies to produce and process them, bioenergy is usually considered as a series of different feedstock and technology combinations. In practice, we tend to use different terms for different end uses – for example electric power or transportation. Biopower describes power stations that use biomass feed stocks instead of fossil fuels like natural gas or coal to produce electricity. Biofuel is used mostly for liquid transportation fuels that substitute for petroleum products such as petrol and diesel. Other terms in use are renewable heat and renewable power.
