So what is Bio-Energy?

Bio-energy is renewable energy made from material of recent biological origin derived from plant or animal matter, known as biomass.

Biomass is a versatile fuel that can be used in different ways and at different scales, from householder installations, through community scale projects, to large electricity generating stations:

Dry Biomass:

can be burned through a range of conventional boilers, combined heat and power units, and more innovative advanced thermal conversion technologies to produce heat and/or to make steam to drive a turbine to produce electricity.

Wet biomass:

can be anaerobically digested to produce a flammable biogas (mainly a mixture of methane and carbon dioxide). This biogas can then be used for heat or electricity generation. Alternatively, the biogas can be further processed and refined to around 100% methane, ‘biomethane’, and injected into the national gas grid.

To visit the UK Government’s website for more information about Bio-Energy Click here