 Living and recently dead biological material that can be used as fuel or for industrial production  Uses plant matter to generate electricity  Also includes biodegradable wastes that can be burnt as fuel

 Dead trees  Yard clippings  Wood chips  Plants grown for industrial biomass include: miscanthus, switchgrass, hemp, corn, poplar, willow, sorghum, sugarcane, and trees such as eucalyptus and oil palm

 Contributes to global warming  If used as a replacement for fossil fuels it puts the same amount of CO 2 as using fossil fuels would  Produces the same amount of air pollution as other fuels

 If used as a replacement for energy production produces carbon neutral which reduces greenhouse gases  Using biomass saves the atmosphere from about 11 million tons per year of CO 2 emissions that using fossil fuels would produce

 Areas need a lot of space devoted to agriculture  If an area does not it costs more to transport the necessary things to use biomass as a fuel, and it becomes more expensive to use

 New Hope Power Partnership  Largest biomass power plant in North America  Uses sugar cane fiber and recycled urban wood  Supplies power to nearly 60,000 homes along with large milling and refining plants  Reduces oil dependence by more than 1 million barrels of oil per year