Biomass energy is expected to play a major role in the substitution of renewable energy sources for fossil fuels over … the next several decades. The US Energy Information Administration (EIA 2012) forecasts increases in the share of biomass … Protection Agency (EPA) is considering regulations to be applied to biomass energy carbon emissions. A basic approach for …

employed by rural households to deal with fuelwood scarcity. The determinants of collecting other biomass energy sources were …

Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP). Authorized in the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008, BCAP is designed to … ensure that a sufficiently large base of new nonfood, nonfeed biomass crops is established in anticipation of future demand … establishment and production of eligible crops including wood biomass in selected project areas for conversion to bioenergy, and the …

A concern of many environmentalists is that the use of biomass energy will decimate the forests. Searchinger et al … supplemental dedicated fuelwood plantations to produce biomass on submarginal lands. It finds that these sources can economically … produce large levels of biomass without compromising crop production, thereby mitigating the land conversion and carbon …

Biomass, a renewable energy source, has been viewed as “carbon neutral”—that is, its use as energy is presumed not to … were sent to the Congress by eminent scientists examining the merits—or demerits—of biomass for climate change mitigation …), questioned the treatment of all biomass energy as carbon neutral, arguing that it could undermine legislative emissions reduction …

types of renewable energy resources – wind, solar, geothermal, and biomass – and an empirical measure of state …