Center for Advanced BioEnergy Research, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign

Monday, January 9, 2012

Defining Biomass

Biomass Power & Thermal
By Lisa Gibson January 05, 2012

ACORE presents its unified, simplified biomass definition to Congress.

When the American Council on Renewable Energy’s Biomass Definition Subcommittee pitched its unified biomass definition to members of Congress in early November, the consensus was clear: no one could remember ever seeing a biomass definition itself as a piece of legislation. So that’s the next step for the subcommittee.

“We’re going to have to find a way to get [our definition] in a piece of legislation to get introduced,” says Charles Brettell, subcommittee member and principal of Energy Asset Advisors. “So that’s sort of the blocking and tackling piece that needs to get done and that’s something we’ll be working on, trying to find the right entrĂ©e to get that in front of people legislatively.”

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