World’s oldest source of consumer energy could play crucial role in meeting future electricity and heat demand |
30 May 12 |
Biomass-based energy – the oldest source of consumer energy known to mankind – has great potential in helping efforts to tackle climate change as well as meeting growing global demand for electricity and heat in a secure and sustainable way. A new technology roadmap, released on 29 May by the International Energy Agency at the World Bioenergy 2012 conference in Jönköping, Sweden, projects that world bioenergy supply for the production of heat and electricity could double by 2050. For this to be achieved, around 100 exajoules (5 to 7 billion dry tonnes) of biomass per year will be needed by 2050.
http://www.iea.org/newsroomandevents/news/2012/may/name,27319,en.html