CONTENTS - May 2009 - Volume. 1, Issue 1
MARKET BRIEFING
- Forest Biomass and Wood Pellet Price Indications
- Biomass & Pellet Market Analysis
- Forest Biomass Feedstock Availability- Forest and sawmill activity declines sharply
- Energy and Carbon Market Briefing
- Biomass Cost Drivers – Lower freight rates are offset by the strength of the US dollar
- The FEm Biomass Cofiring Index – introducing a tool for tracking the competitiveness of biomass v coal
- Wood based bioenergy price indices from FOEX
INVESTMENT & TECHNOLOGY
- United Kingdom – Plans for a huge expansion in biomass power capacity could create a demand for over 200 million GJ/y of biomass
- Vattenfall’s capital expenditure programme – replacing coal with biomass
- First Energy Corporation converts 312 MW coal plant to biomass
- Investment & Technology in brief...
POLICY & LEGISATION
- The policy debate shifts towards biomass sustainability
- The EU will fail to meet its 2010 renewable energy targets
- The peverse effects of a loophole in US tax law
- Policy & Legislation in brief...
