However, there are concerns about the supply of biomass fuels and whether it is viable on a large scale. Mike Torbitt, managing director of resistor manufacturer, Cressall, explores the importance of sustainable biomass projects and the resistor technology involved in making them a success.
Biomass has long been earmarked as a greener alternative to fossil fuels. According to the European Environment Agency, it represented 40% of the continent’s renewable energy supply in 2022.
Generating energy with biomass involves the combustion of a wide range of materials such as wood, agricultural residues and food and industrial waste. Although biomass releases carbon dioxide (CO2) during the combustion process, the plants used as fuel capture almost as much CO2 through photosynthesis . . .
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